Thieves Use Backhoe to Break Into ATM in Democrat-Run Chicago – Opinion

Chicago, my type of place was.Frank Sinatra: We apologise.

Growing up near Lake Michigan, I was raised in the Upper West corner of Indiana. It is, for the most part, part of Greater Chicagoland. My high school — then college — buds and I ran all over the city, from the Southside and Greektown to the Northside and Wrigleyville to Lakeshore Drive and the Navy Pier.

We didn’t have to fear going anyplace, but we did not think of it.

My, how those days — and the Windy City— have changed.

In this case, we’re not even talking about the bloody streets of the Southside. Nope, in the latest example of everyday life in clueless Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago, brazen thieves stole a backhoe, drove it down a Northside city street, and promptly used it to break into an ATM — from which they took the cash.

Chicago Police said that a stolen backhoe was used by Chicago officers to destroy an ATM in Rogers Park on Friday. https://t.co/73DQoOrj0k

— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) February 12, 2022

As reported by Chicago’s CBS affiliate WBBM-TV, Chicago police said the backhoe was stolen from a construction site in Calumet Heights on Thursday afternoon and driven 20 miles to a neighborhood in Rogers Park, where at 1:00 a.m. on Friday, they used it to destroy the ATM and steal the cash.

Rogers Park resident Gina Stewart was shocked by the brazen robbery.

This is absurd. It is crazy! This is what’s wrong. This is what we’re doing now? This is what we’ve resorted to? This is absurd.

Let’s help Gina out, a bit, shall we?

“Crazy”? It’s possible. “Insane”? It depends on who she’s talking about. (See: “Lori Lightfoot.”)

“What is wrong with us?” Nothing is wrong with Gina or people like her. It is her stupidity and the Lightfoot that is wrong. Reckless policies, and the Democrat-controlled Chicago City Council — the same thing that is wrong with Democrat-controlled cities across America.

Yes, that is exactly what it is. They have resorted to allowing — if not downright encouraging. What is the secret to this? You can treat cell doors as revolving doors, obscenely low — if not cashless — bails, and pathetically-reduced prison sentences.

“I’ve lived in Chicago all my life,” Stewart told WBBM, “and I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Marshall Jenkins, who works at a nearby laundry, asked, “How could somebody do something like this and nobody hear anything?” Great question. Unless “somebody” Did hear it— and chose to say nothing. Another Chicagoan said: “I’ve seen where a lot of crooks they will take the small ATMs but this takes the cake.” But it was lifelong Chicagoan Gina Stewart who appeared the most upset, as she reiterated:

The tractor was taken by the men, and they drove all the way to the other side of the city. They didn’t say anything. Can they steal a tractor? It is insane! We have lost our minds.”

Lori Lightfoot continues to be supportive. She was a brilliant thinker.These were unreachable for comment.

WATCH: Chicago-based Democrat-ruled thieves used a stolen backhoe in order to get into an ATM.

This is madness, and this is absurd. We are the problem. This is what we’re doing now? ” pic.twitter.com/g4gqzBuhuH

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 17, 2022

While I cannot — nor Did I try to — connect BackhoeGate to Chicago’s out-of-control and ever-worsening violent crime rate, I did suggest that Lori Lightfoot’s approach to her city’s rampant crime has been inept at best — and a disgusting travesty at worst. As reported by my colleague Sister Toldjah in December, Lightfoot’s stupid response to Chicago’s smash-and-grab looting spree was off the charts. Even for her.

Yup. The intrepid mayor advised that it was best to leave the city. Please enter your email addressOwn a Chicago business Please enter your email addressProtecting our environment requires more. Your store. You know, because Chicago’s finest are busy on the bloody Southside, valiantly fighting crime like a boss. Wait— Lightfoot doesn’t allow that, either. Never mind.

Own a Chicago-based business?⁦⁦@chicagosmayor⁩You should take more measures to safeguard your store.

Why pay so high property taxes then? ⁦@MorningAnswer⁩ pic.twitter.com/jlTWSMv4t7

— Amy “null & void” Jacobson (@AmyJacobson) December 6, 2021

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