But it didn't work out for him. 9-year-old escapes kidnapper by biting the creep's finger in West Ridge - CWB Chicago
The girl and her grandmother were walking in the 6600 block of North Damen Avenue when the man grabbed the girl and started running with her around 9:53 a.m., according to a CPD media statement.
But the girl had other plans. She chomped down on the man’s finger when they reached the 6600 block of North Ridge Boulevard and got away. The kidnapper kept running, according to police.
This took place in the middle of day (well, middle of the morning) in Chicago. I think it is fair to say that may be a sign of crumbling social norms, or even a sign of a crumbling society.
And so I am again reminded of Hobbes, and his State of War.
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time or war where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
What would the fate of that 9-year-old girl have been if she didn't - through her own strength and teeth - escape from this creep? Would she even be alive? How traumatized is she as things stand? What is the grandmother thinking? Perhaps she will never walk with her granddaughter again because of fear.
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