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'Target: Bums' poster pops up in Bucktown (Yuppie Area of Chicago)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 4/23/2015 | Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on 04/23/2015 12:17:20 PM PDT by Beave Meister

Chicago's rats are a brazen, shameless group, as likely to stare back at you as they are to scurry away underneath that alley mattress.

Every Chicagoan breathes a little easier when they see the Streets and Sanitation Department's yellow, ever-present "Target: Rats" signs advertising that their neighborhood vermin are about to get poisoned.

Bill Healy was walking home from dinner Tuesday night near North Wolcott and West North avenues in Bucktown when he thought he saw one of those signs heralding the end for area rodents.

But a closer inspection revealed that the sign actually read "Target: Bums."

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bucktown; bums; chicago; democrats; liberals; obama; progressives; rahm; rats
Can you believe it? In Bucktown, a teeming place full of affluent liberal progressives who are gentrifying the area with $300k+ starter town homes. Hard to believe liberals could be so heartless. (end sarcasm here)
1 posted on 04/23/2015 12:17:20 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister
Chicago's rats are a brazen, shameless group,

Blagoyovich
Ayers
Rezko
Obama
Emmanuel

Yup. Shameless

2 posted on 04/23/2015 12:18:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Add Hillary to that list, even if she did a detour thru Arkansas, LOL.


3 posted on 04/23/2015 12:20:11 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: nascarnation

Not to mention that vermin Harry Reid.


4 posted on 04/23/2015 12:23:10 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Beave Meister

This article is about Bums that = Tramps.
I thought it was about Bum that = ‘Tocks.


5 posted on 04/23/2015 12:25:04 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: nascarnation

Not to mention that vermin Harry Reid.


6 posted on 04/23/2015 12:25:24 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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I don’t think Harry has any Chicago history, he’s a born and bred Nevada native, with a long education from the Vegas Mob.


7 posted on 04/23/2015 12:26:18 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Beave Meister

On The Other Hand, it could be an advert promoting the homo-agenda...


8 posted on 04/23/2015 12:27:06 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Beave Meister

can’t they give the bums a club to beat the rats and get a free meal and some exercise in the process?


9 posted on 04/23/2015 12:35:35 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: lee martell
Even "Tramp Stamp" does not disambiguate.

A clever ploy.

10 posted on 04/23/2015 12:47:59 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
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To: Beave Meister

when I was a kid you wouldn’t want to be near bucktown, then dailey jr got in and tore it all down for UIC

most of the land as I know it is owned by Louis Farrakhan and the jacksons, and rented out to yuppies

pennies on the dime, they bought the property when a 3 flat was condemned and worth 3grand, and now they rent them out for 12 grand a month


11 posted on 04/23/2015 1:08:39 PM PDT by esoxmagnum (we used to give to FR until they accepted advertising from Apple)
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To: Beave Meister

$100 says this will be some SJW project. Just like those maximum number of colored people allowed that were slapped on a few businesses in Austin.


12 posted on 04/23/2015 3:38:43 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks, the mighty Black Hawks)
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To: No_More_Harkin

That’d be work.

Ban bums.


13 posted on 04/23/2015 4:47:23 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: lee martell

Sadly, hobo has fallen out of favor.


14 posted on 04/23/2015 6:27:20 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: esoxmagnum

You sound like you’re making it all up. What two major streets run through Bucktown? I mean, when you was a kid.


15 posted on 04/23/2015 6:28:36 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Beave Meister
The article is rich with irony:

Healy, who has worked on media projects chronicling the city's homeless, said he was angered by the fact that someone would put up something that dehumanizes the city's homeless population — not to mention the calories burned and hours wasted on such an endeavor.

It was Dem policies that dehumanized them. Letting the mentally ill live on the street doing drugs, drinking and living like an animal is dehumanizing, no?

16 posted on 04/23/2015 6:31:55 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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