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Boy Beaten, Artificial Leg Used As Weapon (Police Seeking Perps Speaking "Polish or Broken English")
CBS2.Chicago.com ^ | 07/13/2006 | Kristyn Hartman

Posted on 07/13/2006 3:24:38 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

(CBS) BURBANK, Ill. A 15-year-old southwest suburban boy and his friends are wondering what could have made a group of teens beat him, then take his prosthetic leg and use it as a weapon on a friend who came to his rescue.

As CBS 2’s Kristyn Hartman reports, D.J. Choate of Burbank is now without his leg after losing it in a scuffle his friends call unthinkable.

Choate and some friends were outside near 79th Street and Nagle Avenue when a group of teens drove past and almost hit him on Monday morning just after midnight.

Choate said he and his friends believed the teens were drunk, and they called the teens on their behavior. The teens exited the car, and when they did so, Choate asked to be left alone because he only had one leg.

But one of the teens shoved Choate to the ground and removed his leg. Police said when a 20-year-old friend tried to help Choate, one of the attackers used the leg as a weapon to hit him in the head.

The teens then smashed the artificial leg on the ground and drove off, police said.

“There was no reason for anyone to jump on us,” Choate said. “We did nothing. Nothing wrong.”

Choate added there was “no reason, not one reason” for the assailants to take his leg. “That’s demented right there,” he said.

Added Choate’s friend Victoria Campbell, “I really don’t know what to say about it. He didn’t do nothing wrong. He was just in there trying to help his friend out.”

The prosthetic leg was severely damaged. Choate needs a new prosthetic leg and without a replacement, he cannot walk normally.

Police say they are looking for five men who speak Polish or broken English.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: burbank; djchoate; illinois; prosthetic

Victim D.J. Choate

1 posted on 07/13/2006 3:24:42 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

2 posted on 07/13/2006 3:28:23 PM PDT by zarf (Italian Kid: My father can beat up your father! Jewish Kid: Big deal, so can my mother!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I'm trying real hard.


3 posted on 07/13/2006 3:29:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

just trying to give him a leg up


4 posted on 07/13/2006 3:30:24 PM PDT by pipecorp (Al Lahsucks coxswain hell)
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To: cripplecreek
I'm trying real hard.

Me too.

I'm trying to remember the joke about "a one legged man at an ass kicking contest."

5 posted on 07/13/2006 3:31:20 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: pipecorp

It's not like the kid was unarmed.


6 posted on 07/13/2006 3:32:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: martin_fierro

Ping


7 posted on 07/13/2006 3:32:19 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: pipecorp

he used to be a foot taller...


8 posted on 07/13/2006 3:33:23 PM PDT by llevrok (Born a ham and never cured.)
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To: llevrok

but now he can't foot the bill.


9 posted on 07/13/2006 3:35:33 PM PDT by pipecorp (Al Lahsucks coxswain hell)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

The thugs told him to leg it.


10 posted on 07/13/2006 3:36:53 PM PDT by relictele
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To: Mr. Brightside

Aww you're pullin my leg.


11 posted on 07/13/2006 3:43:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
The poor victim should've been carrying a concealed Viking Kitty.
12 posted on 07/13/2006 4:13:24 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; All
I very rarely chastise other Freepers but this is sick!
13 posted on 07/13/2006 4:25:44 PM PDT by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: proudofthesouth

You don't kneed to be so harsh.


14 posted on 07/14/2006 5:50:55 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Bacon Man; Hap
Rumor has it the perp works here.


15 posted on 07/14/2006 5:52:57 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

"The prosthetic leg was severely damaged. Choate needs a new prosthetic leg and without a replacement, he cannot walk normally."


Ya think?


16 posted on 07/14/2006 5:55:26 AM PDT by goseminoles
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