The Brains Of The Operation
Two charged with robbery after pausing getaway to grab McDonald’s on the victim’s credit card.
No, really:
Last Sunday evening, November 17, a 28-year-old man told police that two people pinned him against a fence at 31st Street and King Drive while a third went through his pockets and took his wallet, according to a Chicago police report.
While the victim spoke with officers, he received an email notification that one of his stolen credit cards was being used at a McDonald’s. Knowing there was a “golden arches” on the corner of 35th and Indiana, the cops headed that way to see if they could find any suspects, the report said.
Happily, the hunch paid off:
As they pulled up, the officers noticed three people boarding a CTA bus who matched the descriptions provided by the victim… The cops said they pulled the bus over, and those three people fled out the back door. All three were detained nearby.
Justin Bradley and Marshawn Sampson, both 18-year-olds, face charges of robbery.
The ways in which the criminal mind differs from your own have been noted here before.
It was the SCA. Lots of pagans, lots of misfits, lots of borderline personalities, etc.
I haven’t had much contact for decades, and sometimes wonder what they’re up to.
I stayed very far away from those people. My assumption was that they didn’t bathe. Well, except for the one when you’re born and the one when you die.
Most SCA people did bathe, although there were some with appalling personal hygiene and housekeeping. But then, I’ve met fans who were just as bad. I could tell stories, but “don’t shake hands, don’t accept any food, and for God’s sake don’t kiss” should suffice.
And it’s not just the fans: Famous 50’s writer Cyril Kornbluth reportedly had green teeth. Theodore Sturgeon reportedly would answer the door naked and would scratch his balls while making handmade paella.
Some of these people could be quite interesting, as they knew a great deal about all sorts of obscure topics. But eventually the personality defects tended to degrade the value of interacting.
And come to think of it, Steve Jobs reportedly did not bathe.
Some of these people could be quite interesting, as they knew a great deal about all sorts of obscure topics.
I worked for a guy like this. He was a creative type. Graphic artist. Didn’t use deodorant. Didn’t brush his teeth. Claimed that, “Chicks dig it.” This was the 90s. He had long greasy hair. Dressed like a flake and had some pretty weird beliefs. I didn’t last long at his company–six months–before I’d had enough.
I’m sure there are some people like that. Napoleon reportedly once messaged Josephine “Am coming home. Don’t bathe.”
I did notice that for all their talk about maximum tolerance, anyone who actually dressed well would feel and even be made to feel out of place.
The demand for tolerance included the expectation that one never question weird beliefs such as aura reading, horoscopes, and so on.
Peaceful, meaningful deaths will be the next social contagion among teenaged girls.
Oh, come on. That’s footage from a futuristic dystopian movie. Next, you’ll tell me they’re releasing dangerous criminals from prison to make room for speech criminals and neglecting to punish child molesters.
Oh dear. About that . . .
Care for a spot of whisky in your tea?
I forgot to write: One problem with these fan cultures is that although they provide a comforting haven for the immature and the socially maladjusted, this same culture fails to foster maturation and growth. Partly through a lack of good role models but also through a tendency to welcome and praise defects of all sorts. In fact, criticizing such defects is sometimes attacked as “intolerance”. Quite a waste.
Come breakfast time the updates to this thread may require a spot of coffee in my whiskey.
I seriously question whether these pit bull owners really don’t know. Far more likely that they “don’t know” the same way leftists “don’t know” about what their ideas lead to.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own. Comments that-a-way.
Or be easily identified, exploited and weaponized all while remaining anonymous.
Evergreen: ‘I can’t breathe. Please, let me go. Please, let me go. I can’t breathe. Somebody give me some water. I can’t breathe.’
Ah yes. From hard experience, if you genuinely can’t breathe you can’t carry on at length about your problem, and I promise, a serving of water is the last thing you might think of asking for. These are genuinely awful people.
I had a brief acquaintance with them when I still thought they had anything to do with medieval history. An actual conversation:
SCAdian1: Look at this bookplate I found! OMG so beautiful, I wonder where it’s from?
SCAdian 2: Well, based on my studies that looks like Anglo-Saxon dress, I’d say 11th or 12th century
Me: According to the shelfmark in the corner it’s from a 15th c. hagiography of St. Eugenie in France.
SCAdian 3: Blue hands?? Some kind of monster?? A troll??
Me: Those are gloves.
Once again, the Geek Social Fallacies are not fallacies per se, they’re descriptions of how children socialize. Retarded emotional development is a hallmark of many such subcultures.
Thanks for reminding me of them and that website.
In re Geek Social Fallacies: respectable views at the link, but I’m always cautious when:
people with otherwise normal names insist on Garlicizing them. No need for talkin’ a whole lot of Garlic what nobody can make out.
Chicago is a spectacularly unsafe place, particularly in the gang-ridden south side. Here’s a danger map of Chicago.
https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-chicago-il/
About a block and a half west of the Lake, at 31st Street, there’s a bright red spot in a dangerous park. Chicago is laid out in a grid, so it’s easy to figure out exactly where it is.
The south side of Chicago has always been this way. The real problem is that in recent years, regulations have changed. Criminals are let out of the jails without bail. Police are forbidden from chasing in many situations, although I don’t understand exactly how that works. Almost no robberies end in prison time. As a result, the danger in the south side has spread to the rest of the city.
Chicago went crazy during the George Floyd riots. Gangs rampaged through Michigan Avenue and State Street, robbing the stores without any fear of repercussions. Shooting and robberies and gangs now operate in areas that always felt completely safe before.
I live out in the suburbs, and I don’t go downtown very often anymore. I’m waiting for a mayor to come in who is more concerned about the well-being of the City than the well-being of the subgroup of people who prey upon everyone else.
Looks generally accurate, except for how the entirety of O’Hare Airport and various suburban forest preserves are marked bright red highly dangerous.
Sliding up to Milwaukee, I think I’ll agree with the orange strip along the lakefront north of downtown, as I have witnessed disorder and crime, and the presence of many “dubious” looking people–although this used to be a very safe area and the property values are pretty high. But again, I question the orange and red area on the lakefront north of Milwaukee county: Really? Including the Audubon nature preserve? I don’t know, but have serious doubts.
The observations are solid and have been borne out by decades (the original site was published in 1997) but the conclusions are wrong. Wilson presents them as fallacies, errors in reasoning about relationships, when what they really are is retarded emotional development.
An awful lot of “geek” or “nerd” social dysfunction can be explained by the core thesis that these people are much more neurotic and/or reactive than average, and deliberately seek out interests and social groupings where ambiguity, uncertainty and confrontation are minimized.
Not unusual: when my late wife’s purse was stolen, first thing the thieves did was head for Mickey D’s, where they bought Cokes just to make sure the card was good. When it worked, they then rushed off to Dick’s Sporting Goods to charge 500 dollars worth of sneakers, which didn’t work after one of the young black male was challenged on the likelihood of his first name actually being Christiana.
On the way to Dick’s, the supergenius had tossed a $1000 purse and $700 wallet out the car window onto somebody’s lawn, who later found my wife’s driver license in the wallet and contacted us.