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Pregnant Illinois woman run over as she tried to rescue toddler from car thieves [link only]
USA Today via Yahoo ^ | February 24, 2023 | Amanda Lee Myers

Posted on 02/24/2023 4:28:17 PM PST by grundle

Link only - USA Today

But here's a reader comment: "Volkswagen Car-Net would not track the car while the 2 year old was still in it without a re-activation fee. I won't ever own a VW as a result. Unbelievably convenient for them to leave that out."

And here's a different reader responding to that comment: "Agreed. It’s part of the official statement from the Lake County sheriff’s office but it’s not surprising on the part of VW. The people who answer those calls are NOT allowed to make judgment calls. “Follow the script” has been writ in corporate stone for decades now, removing independent thought, and if the script says no tracing without payment then that’s what will happen, especially given the fact that it’s almost invariably an overseas call center in a country where independent thought isn’t nurtured in the first place."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: avoid; carjacking; crime; donatetofreerepublic; illinois; violence

1 posted on 02/24/2023 4:28:17 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/libertyville-carjacking-victim-run-over-by-thieves-stealing-vehicle-with-2-year-old-inside/3080149/

light green face mask, CODE for you-know-wHo.


2 posted on 02/24/2023 4:33:20 PM PST by Baladas
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To: Baladas

No description is always a description.


3 posted on 02/24/2023 4:39:57 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: grundle

VW coulda been Heroes. I’ll remember this


4 posted on 02/24/2023 4:43:50 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: griswold3

The business model is the same for all providers, the people you’ll depend on when you pay for these services may as well be robots.


5 posted on 02/24/2023 5:25:40 PM PST by bigbob
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To: grundle

I think it is criminal to withhold identifying information for the sake of trying to appease the agitators for our afro-centric society. There isn’t any way in the world this woman does not know the ethnicity of her attacker.


6 posted on 02/24/2023 5:37:51 PM PST by Yogafist (Voting rino is voting for the managed decline of America.)
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To: grundle

So it’s unleashed ones again I take it?


7 posted on 02/24/2023 5:47:34 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Calling all cars. Be on the lookout for “a man”


8 posted on 02/24/2023 5:51:11 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: grundle

It appears to be a pretty nice uncongested area, judging only by the map, 30 miles north of the center of Chicago and about 5-8 miles west of Lake Michigan, but near a small lake. Maybe one of her kids had to pee or was throwing up, so she took that one in and went back for the other. Horrible crime. Hope there were ring cameras around there.


9 posted on 02/25/2023 9:09:15 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: Baladas
light green face mask, CODE for you-know-wHo.

So glad we normalized the wearing of medically-useless face masks.

10 posted on 02/25/2023 9:18:25 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Organic Panic
No description is always a description.

I assume black unless told otherwise.

11 posted on 02/25/2023 9:19:06 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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