Posted on 10/12/2024 5:26:54 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Four people are in custody after crowds of thieves descended freight train tracks on Chicago's West Side Friday and went into stalled freight train cars—stealing whatever they could grab.
The looting happened on the Union Pacific train tracks between Kinzie and Lake streets. The train the thieves targeted was parked near the overpass at Cicero Avenue, and extended for several blocks west.
The number of people seen stealing TVs and other electronics, and air fryers during the hours-long theft was enough to make one question how so many people were able to pull it off and escape.
One by one, people made their way up the embankment to get to the tracks and raid the train.
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This makes it look like the Dem run Chicago is a nest of thieves, murderers and career criminals running wild.
Pretty accurate picture.
Old: mail train with shipment of gold gets held up by bandits on horseback in the West.
New: Train of more modern model. Otherwise unchanged. Also probably SUVs and trucks to take away goodies.
Decades ago the NYC metro area was plagued by cargo thieves targeting tractor trailers.
PD put out a decoy truck where the doors snapped shut like a mousetrap.
Dozens busted.
in between wasn’t there a period of social cohesion, law and order?
Agreed. The box truck pulled up to it to load stolen goods into tells me that they were at least somewhat organized. Maybe the train was parked there long enough for someone to think to get Leon and his truck.
It fell off the radar quickly. Just another reason for office workers to want to WFH instead of RTO.
Maybe their lawyers can get them off by claiming that the train cars were “an attractive nuisance.”
Probably the truck they stole from the church Meals on Wheels for the elderly shut-ins. Lots of room for stolen stuff after they threw the food on the street.
Somebody robbed the Glendale train and made off with the gold.
What I’d like to know is how did they know which car to rob?
Four in custody, soon to be released to pass along the word that crime in Chicago will not be punished so long as Harris is elected. Pass it along to the brothers, and tell them Obama approves the message.
Keep sending them busloads of illegal alien gangsters.
The willingness for people to loot en-mass like they did from those train cars, gives me a picture of a culture in total degeneracy. How did those youths get that way? Are they the result of poor parenting? What forces have eliminated the value of accountability from these people?
Freight Train Heist in South Austin - sanctioned by the Democrat Party reluctance to hold the on-scene perpetrators individually accountable.
Chicago’s Citizens live in a dehumanized state that has deteriorated into anarchy.
This was reported a year a go or so, trains being looted and not a peep from anyone now they make an arrest which doesn’t matter. The same fate will come to those who mob raid a jewelry store of a posh clothing store, nothing
Wasn’t Leon. Was Sha’nana. An aspiring rapper.
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