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Leaders lose wheels in Detroit (Jesse Jackson and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing)
UPI ^ | 9/4/2010

Posted on 09/04/2010 8:23:36 PM PDT by markomalley

DETROIT, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing experienced the city's lawlessness firsthand in recent days when they were targeted by car thieves.

Jackson was in the city last weekend for a march to promote peace and justice. A Cadillac Escalade he was using in the city disappeared from a parking lot, WJBK-TV reported.

The vehicle was found on a Detroit street stripped of most of its salable parts.

Bing lost the tires from a GMC Yukon Denali assigned to him as a secondary vehicle, Detroit's WDIV-TV reported. The theft occurred overnight Tuesday while the sport utility vehicle was parked in a gated private lot.

Terri Miller of Help Eliminate Auto Thefts said about 20,000 of the 35,000 auto thefts reported in Michigan annually occur in Detroit, WJBK said.

An expert on auto theft said stealing and stripping a car is a quick and easy way to make money. He said Cadillac truck wheels can be sold for $1,600.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: davebing; detroit; jessejackson; michigan
Couldn't have happened to two nicer people.
1 posted on 09/04/2010 8:23:40 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

How much a Escalade go for, Jack?

Community activatin’ pay pretty good, yo?


2 posted on 09/04/2010 8:26:18 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: markomalley

You don’t think a brother would steal from a brother do you?


3 posted on 09/04/2010 8:28:02 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: markomalley

I wonder how Kwame Kilpatrick is doing in jail.


4 posted on 09/04/2010 8:30:39 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: markomalley

The best part is that Jackson was in Detroit to promote “Green Jobs”...all the while doing it with Al Gore-esque hypocrisy driving around in a Cadillac Escapade.


5 posted on 09/04/2010 8:33:21 PM PDT by Azzurri
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To: markomalley

I really like Henry Payne’s take on it...

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100903/MIVIEW/100903001/1467/opinion01/Payne—The-irony-of-Jesse-Jackson-s-stripped-SUV


6 posted on 09/04/2010 9:03:29 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: hsalaw

He’s actually in prison - federal charges are just around the corner. And Monica Conyers is headed to prison in about a week for about a three year stint.


7 posted on 09/04/2010 9:14:25 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ( VIVA la SB 1070!)
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To: PGalt
LOL


8 posted on 09/04/2010 11:03:33 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: markomalley

“Leaders?”


9 posted on 09/05/2010 6:59:51 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: markomalley

Poverty Pimp Bump.


10 posted on 09/05/2010 7:53:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: markomalley

It’s a “beautiful” thing!


11 posted on 09/05/2010 7:06:47 PM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: markomalley
Couldn't have happened to two nicer people.

I snickered at this story, in spite of myself.

Welcome to Detroit!

12 posted on 09/06/2010 4:25:15 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (Help keep Michigan working! Post your tagline here. Reasonable rates! Call for details)
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To: MaggieCarta

It is not theft. It is nobama redistribution. Lighten up. Let them touch the cars (to paraphrase Celine Dion).


13 posted on 09/06/2010 4:33:12 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: markomalley
Leaders lose wheels in Detroit

Leaders? Leaders for whom or what?

14 posted on 09/06/2010 4:45:19 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: markomalley

That is just too perfect! Sad, but it made my day! :o)


15 posted on 09/06/2010 9:09:53 AM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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