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Boy, 14, dupes police, patrols Chicago for 5 hours
Yahoo (AP) ^
| 1/25/08
| Michael Tarm
Posted on 01/26/2009 3:26:50 AM PST by DemforBush
CHICAGO A 14-year-old aspiring police officer donned a uniform, walked into a Chicago police station and managed to get an assignment patroling in a squad car for five hours before he was detected, police said Sunday...
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; donutwatch; impersonator
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"The boy once took part in a Chicago program for youth interested in policing, so he would have been familiar with some procedures, perhaps helping him blend in, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said."
Sounds like a future commandant in the civilian defense force, eh? :P ;)
To: DemforBush
I wonder how they caught him: Forgot his drop gun? No baggie of marijuana to plant on a suspect? Failure to sufficiently beat a perp?
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posted on
01/26/2009 3:31:21 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(This fiasco brought to you by the failed Obama administration.)
To: DemforBush
He probably gave the false name of Bill Ayers
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posted on
01/26/2009 3:33:37 AM PST
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
To: Slings and Arrows
They probably got suspicious because he was actually looking for criminal activity!
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posted on
01/26/2009 3:33:45 AM PST
by
Enterprise
(A Representative Republic - gone now. Foolish people.)
To: Enterprise
They probably got suspicious because he was actually looking for criminal activity! ...instead of performing it.
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posted on
01/26/2009 3:35:40 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(This fiasco brought to you by the failed Obama administration.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
01/26/2009 3:36:40 AM PST
by
Enterprise
(A Representative Republic - gone now. Foolish people.)
To: DemforBush; Impy
I was gonna say he must’ve been 14 that looked 18 or so. When I was 14, I looked 9. =8-0
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posted on
01/26/2009 3:37:53 AM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: DemforBush
For 5 hours, the streets of Chicago were probably safer, or at least the bad guys stood a better chance of being shot on sight.
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posted on
01/26/2009 3:48:05 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: DemforBush
Darius McCollum, NYC stole subway trains and picked up passengers, without crashing
James L. Harris, Miami-Dade stole buses, picked up passengers, returned the bus with the fare money multiple times until caught. Go figure?
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posted on
01/26/2009 4:00:47 AM PST
by
tommyboy
To: DemforBush
Chicago Boy, 47, dupes America, walks into the White House and pretends to be presidential for 4 years.
To: DemforBush
Chicago seems famous for this. Another person walked into the Chicago democrat party headquarters and was assigned duty as president of the United States. Hasn’t been caught yet.
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posted on
01/26/2009 4:13:25 AM PST
by
WesternPacific
(I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
To: WesternPacific; Infralutheran
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posted on
01/26/2009 4:27:07 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(This fiasco brought to you by the failed Obama administration.)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Gad zooks that’s funny. I didn’t watch the local news the last couple days.
Chicago PD are clowns.
Maybe he was in the car I saw driving the wrong way on a one way street for no reason the other day. (actually they do that a lot)
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posted on
01/26/2009 4:30:11 AM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: Nightshift
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posted on
01/26/2009 4:30:35 AM PST
by
tutstar
(Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
To: Slings and Arrows; Enterprise
The answer is right in the article.
He didn’t write up any traffic tickets! That’s like going to Congress and not fondling an intern, makes you stand out like a sore thumb.
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posted on
01/26/2009 4:32:54 AM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: Infralutheran
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posted on
01/26/2009 5:01:19 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: Slings and Arrows
Yep, nice to be in elite company.
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posted on
01/26/2009 5:08:14 AM PST
by
WesternPacific
(I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
To: secret garden; Infralutheran
Post of the day!
Hear! Hear!
I second that! Bravo!
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posted on
01/26/2009 5:08:32 AM PST
by
mkjessup
(Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American History. Barack 0bama is his second term.)
To: Infralutheran
True, but it really isn’t funny. I’m still laughing!!
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posted on
01/26/2009 5:09:44 AM PST
by
FES0844
To: DemforBush
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posted on
01/26/2009 5:13:42 AM PST
by
Right_Handed_Writer
(Socialism is the rest stop on the way from Capitalism to Communism)
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