21 December 2020

Dumb and Dumber

The title of the post could also refer to two prominent Chicago politicians, but I will leave that to you to decide and go with CWBChicago's take.

First up - Dumb: Serial carjacker abandons vehicle after 100 feet — because he can’t drive a stick shift, prosecutors say

He ordered a Lyft and then tried to carjack the Lyft driver.

The victim got out and Johnson took the man’s wallet and keys at gunpoint before climbing into the driver’s seat and coming face-to-face with something he had apparently never encountered before: a manual transmission.

Johnson, still wielding his firearm, ordered the victim to teach him how to drive the darn thing, prosecutors said. The Lyft driver gave Johnson a quick primer, then ran for help.

A manual transmission has become one of the best theft deterrents of the 21st Century.

Next we have - And dumber: Man charged with destroying police “blue light camera” after the camera records him doing it — TWICE

Destroying a police surveillance camera takes a special kind of person. It is a camera. It s recording your actions.

On Wednesday, prosecutors charged the 20-year-old Southwest Side man with destroying a Chicago Police Department “blue light” surveillance camera near his home. And then doing it again this week — five days after the city repaired the device.

It is too early to say if the Criminal Justice System (sic) of Cook County and Chicago will dole out any punishment to these two.

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