Nearly 30 arrested when fights break out as hundreds of young people descend on downtown Chicago

Chicago Tribune ^ | April 18, 2019 | Morgan Greene

[AppyPappy]

Mutual of Omaha probably sponsored it.

[JayAr36]

Absolutely true!

[I want the USA back]

Imagine how many youts are going to descend upon Chicago when they start getting their Guaranteed Universal Minimum Income for doing nothing.

[scottinoc]

Someone needs to explain to me the pants-at-the-knees trend among some “youths”. It doesn’t even look comfortable. Plus you need something to hold it even up that far, don’t you? SMH

[Responsibility2nd]

Why arrest them?

The colored gals that run Chicago (Foxx and Lightfoot) will just dismiss and release.

[fwdude]

Did EBT cards experience a glitch?

[fwdude]

There’s no explaining idiocy.

[frank ballenger]

There’s pictures of teens in the article.
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Are they like the screenshots from Beach Party and those other teen movies? Those kids can get rascally and get into shoving matches over who has the fastest car and who got invited to sit closer to some girl’s former boyfriend at the evening campfire.

[EdnaMode]

In MAGA country?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Just a bunch of kids out to have a good time.

[48th SPS Crusader]

“The challenge is to keep the public safety,” he said.

Well that is a lie!
The challenge is to enforce the law without offended certain folks to the point that they will riot!

[cuban leaf]

My kids live near Chicago. We visit several times a year. We have not been in Chicago since my first visit there in 1998, and I have no desire to.

[laplata]

“Good to see young people outside enjoying some fresh air and interacting with the community”.

Yeah, they were all out looking for any little old ladies that might need help crossing the street.

[Jewbacca]

It can be explained quite easily with a bell curve.

[LostInBayport]

I was told it has something to do with prison, where men wear their pants that way to um, solicit their wares. If that is true I don’t know why it is emulated.

Plus it looks stoooopid.

[frank ballenger]

when they start getting their Guaranteed Universal Minimum Income for doing nothing.

At one time in college I had three part time jobs (admittedly one was 6 hours a week). Happened to my wife at one time too with research jobs. I delivered campus mail daily including heaving big mail bags onto the stack in a semi and riding in back on the pile to the downtown post office. And selling and stocking LPs in a music department each night. Where did I get the energy?

I assume all these "teens" are working hard and then can finally rest and slack off with guaranteed income. Am I right?/s

[Mouton]

Where is Daley when you need him.

[treetopsandroofs]

At least one of his arms is occupied doing no harm holding up his pants.

[TADSLOS]

YUTS!!

[frank ballenger]

Yeah, they were all out looking for any little old ladies that might need help crossing the street.
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If the ladies’ purses were heavy the teens could hold them to lighten the load on their feet.