Friday, September 14, 2007

* Local Blogger Gets Gooned

Michael on Fargo said.... "As I was nearing my building between 5 and 7 guys charged out of the alley and started hitting me. I dropped my groceries and did my best to cover up I was kicked repeatedly for what seemed like an eternity but was actually just about a minute. A few people on the street yelled for police and my assailants ran down the El entrance for a quick escape. I imagine they chose the site of the attack because it offered such a convenient escape route. The police arrived a few minutes later and I gave a description of the one guy I got a good look at. I fully expect that no one will ever be caught and nothing will ever come of this except the bruises on my legs and my swollen jaw. I have a few cuts on my head from hitting the sidewalk. I spent most of the day on Sunday at Hines VA hospital waiting to have my injuries checked out. My arm hurt so bad that I feared it was broken. Turns out it is not, but it still hurts like a sum-bitch."

19 comments:

rpsense said...

What is the description of the assailant?

Veronica said...

I'm glad you're OK. You should charge moores office and show the lazy son of a bitch what's been happening in his kingdom.

Craig Gernhardt said...

It wasn't me. It was one of Joe Moore's blog tools.

Ryne said...

I hate to hear these stories several "tough" guys jumping one man and a man with his hands full on top of that.

What I have been reading lately on the blog are all these stories of crime that people have been victims or have are reporting on in the 49th ward.

I don't get it?? Little joey moore told me that crime is DOWN!!

Gee I wonder who is telling me lies???

Craig Gernhardt said...

You're right Ryne. Maybe Michael on Fargo ought to e-mail the alderman and ask him why he puts out false information to the public on crime stats.

Craig Gernhardt said...

Michael on Fargo, ask Joe about this too.

Levois said...

I wonder what's the point of these Goonings. Why assualt someone who hadn't actually done anything to you, but only just because?

Philip McGregor Rogers said...

they are doing this because
they know they are being slowly forced out the neigborhood by market forces,

that doesnt mean they still wont hang out up here, it just means they will have to rest their lazy head in some other hood

they evicted/forced out the people at the rider/block/etc building 1340 morse and 1345 lunt, so i think sentiment is very negative now among the lower class,

they are spoil sports,

i wonder if spraying mace on them or pepper spray would have
cut this gooning short,

Craig Gernhardt said...

Neighbors warned about goonings.

Craig Gernhardt said...

Fox News covers goonings.

Hugh said...

Helluva Weekend

Michael on Fargo

RP4Life said...

They do this because the need hugs. Even if the police found the culprits, they would not serve any time because this crime is not brutal enough. You were not killed. The revolving door at Cook County Lockup is a joke! Kind of like the police in the 24th district. Make sure you turn in youe weapons little lambs.

Unknown said...

FWIW - I pretty sure that Michael no longer lives on Fargo. I suspect that he no longer lives in Rogers Park for that matter.

blue collar said...

rp4life: why are you so negative about the police?

The North Coast said...

Blue, you can be positive about the police and still be very neg about the justice system in this country as a whole.

Our justice system is broken, face it. It is not the fault of the police. It is the fault of many things- a piecemiel approach to lawmaking, that addresses pet issues of various constituencies without regard to whether the law is just, or fits in with other laws, or accomplishes its stated purpose.

I watched for forty years, since my teens, as vicious murderers were returned to the streets after serving laughably light sentances for multiple slayings, as thousands of people do serious time for minor drug offenses while pedophiles roam the streets, and as the rich, positioned, or celebrated walk after committing vile crimes. You feel overwhelmed after a while.

rwssastt said...

If we didn't have a corrupt city and state government that denies us our right to self defense, we wouldn't have this situation. There are now only two States in the entire United States that denies its law-abiding citizens the Right to self-defense via CCW permit. ILLinois is one of those two remaining States. And we have both Blago and Dictator Daley with his undue influence on State politics to thank for that.

When the honest, law-abiding citizens are allowed to be armed, violent crime goes down. This fact has been shown to be true in every State and City where CCW permits are available to the citizens, without exception.

And the beauty of the CCW permit is that it doesn't take a lot of armed citizens to work - just the knowledge that a potential victim might be armed provides a measurable deterent effect to the cowardly punks out there.

Sincerely,

Ride Well, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth

The North Coast said...

I beg to differ on the matter of guns.

St. Louis' crime, which was always much worse than Chicago's and was my no. 1 reason for leaving that burg, has become much, much worse since the state of MO legalized conceal-carry. By the way, the legislature did this even though the citizens of the state voted against it.

Note that most Southern cities have much worse violent crime than Chicago, and I believe that the romance of firearms, and their prevalence, in those places, contributes to the crime rate.

If you think Chicago is bad, go to ST. Louis, Birmingham, Memphis, New Orleans, or Atlanta. I got so sick of being mugged and terrorized, of literally running between my car and my building.

Let's just not let our city get as bad as these places. Carrying a weapon isn't going to help you when someone takes you from behind and by surprise, as happened to me, or boards your city transit vehicle and pulls a gun on you, as also happened to me, or if you get caught in the crossfire. It will only help get you killed that much faster. If I had had a weapon on me the night I was seized from behind, my assailant would have picked it off me and murdered me with it.

Hillari said...

Levois and Jeff,

Let's not forget that some of the goonings may be part of gang initiations too, especially if the attackers are kids and teens.

The Half Jap said...

So Craig, you'll post the goonings, but when some one gets jumped because of your blog (you accusing one of members as being a hate blogger) you just have to sweep that under the carpet huh?

You are worthless

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