Mail delivery stops in on a Chicago-area block deemed too dangerous by the Post Office:
Dozens of mailboxes remain empty after the post office suspends service in one south suburban neighborhood…The U.S. Post Office seems to think that this is one of the most dangerous blocks in the country. People who live on it say they haven’t gotten any mail delivered to their homes in almost two weeks.
How dangerous?
“Between robberies and shootings and delayed police response, several things going on, that would make it unsafe,” said Harvey resident Venus Jones.
One of those shootings on the morning of October 10th reportedly happened yards away from the mail carrier. That’s when the mail stopped on Marshfield between 151st and 152nd streets, but the post office didn’t tell anyone.
“Some of the people didn’t even know that it was being held at the post office,” Jones said.
Now Jones, who says her own home has been broken into three times in 30 days is talking to her neighbors about the mail problem and what should happen next.
Sounds bad.
Good thing the rights of the the law abiding citizens in the area to own guns are more tightly restricted than any place in the country! Goodness knows how bad it’d be then, right?
Sounds like they need to get their community organized.
Your home has been broken into three times in the last month and you are worried about getting your mail?
You beat Angryclown to the joke, Old Chad.
I think we should have a daily counter of American deaths in Chicago. How many more must die of Obama’s lie?
The solution to the lady’s problem is clear.
She needs to get a government backed mortgage company to refinance her house to the tune of half a million bucks. Then she can use FedEx.
One correction; technically, Harvey is not a gun free zone (not to my knowledge anyways) like Chicago proper is, but gun owners are subject to state harassment via the FOID (firearms owners ID) law–and of course there is no legal carry in Illinois unless you’re an employee of the state.
One would figure, though, that if a suburb had crime rates worse than the projects, as appears to be the case here, a governor who came from the area just might “lend a hand” to the local police in the same way that Indiana state troopers were once dispatched to Gary.
Of course, that would assume that the governor was not very worried about the extent of his dealings with Tony Rezko being revealed to a court of law, which is probably the case with Blagojevich.
My brothers and our friends and I used to play hockey against “the Harvey boys”. For a Southside kid to consider another kid “scruffy” really meant something…and the Harvey kids were scruffy.
One would figure, though, that if a suburb had crime rates worse than the projects, as appears to be the case here, a governor who came from the area just might “lend a hand” to the local police in the same way that Indiana state troopers were once dispatched to Gary.
When Daley tore down the Robert Taylor Homes and other similar housing projects, a lot of the people ended up in places like Harvey. Basically it’s the same thing as the banlieus in Paris – the city was cleaned up and the people they didn’t want to deal with were shunted off to the suburbs.
Sorry – close that tag!
It should have read like this:
One would figure, though, that if a suburb had crime rates worse than the projects, as appears to be the case here, a governor who came from the area just might “lend a hand” to the local police in the same way that Indiana state troopers were once dispatched to Gary.
When Daley tore down the Robert Taylor Homes and other similar housing projects, a lot of the people ended up in places like Harvey. Basically it’s the same thing as the banlieus in Paris – the city was cleaned up and the people they didn’t want to deal with were shunted off to the suburbs.
Bike Butthead whimpered: “gun owners are subject to state harassment via the FOID (firearms owners ID)”
Only a wingnut thinks it’s necessary to have an ID to vote, but it’s harassment if you have to have an ID to carry a gun.
Clown, the Illinois FOID is required to posess a firearm or ammunition, not to “carry a gun”. Look it up before you comment, moron.
AC, a permit to own a firearm (which is what the Illinois FOID is) is effectively the same as a gun owners registry, which allows house by house searches to remove firearms from their lawful owners.
For reference, Mayor Daley has wasted a lot of time doing this in Chicago instead of getting the gangbangers from places like Cabrini Green and Robert Taylor in jail where they belong. Now Harvey is feeling the pain.
And lay off the invective, unless you want to hear the truth about yourself.
AC is just peeved because his application to for a permit to carry one of those guns with the “BANG” flags got turned down.
“AC is just peeved”
There’s a joke in there somewhere…
😀
Clownie getting “peeved”. Sounds like something Angry Al the cartpetbagger would write.
Um, Terry, “carrying a gun” is “possessing a firearm.”
If they’re lawful guns, what reason would police have for house-to-house searches? The purpose of registration lists is to permit house-to-house searches for voters, dontcha think?
Wingnuts are always afraid of something!
Clown has fallen and he can’t get up.
Go to Illinois. Get an FOID. Carry a gun. You’ll be arrested.
Your beginning to reason like peevish, AC.
Only one armed policeman to man a central mailbox is not enough and does not solve the problem of living in an area that is extremely dangerous and where people can’t even have their mail delivered. What’s wrong with the illuminati tax-and-spenders who are sitting on their behinds in Washington, along with the local police force, doing something constructive and coming up with a solution to this problem?
Sounds like a good law, Terry. In Illinois it’s apparently OK to own a gun. You’re just not allowed to hold it.
Yeah, it says something with our favorite Mets fan has trouble clueing in to the fact that when government says “you can have a gun but you can’t use it,” that is in fact harassment, not to mention a colossally stupid idea that has gotten thousands of Chicagoans killed.
Guess you wingnuts know what’s best for Chicagoans, eh Bike Butthead? You wouldn’t want to leave the decision to, say, Chicagoans.
You’re calling the Founding Fathers wingnuts? Mmmkay…..
Looks like some of that stuff floating in that big blue toilet bowl y’all call “Shea Stadium” crept in between your ears. Yes, there are certain decisions one doesn’t leave to local residents ticked about the firing of the dogcatcher. If you’re truly so dense on the subject, google “Constitutional Convention.”
Sure, Bike Butthead. And you Google “Two Wingnuts, One Cup.”
angryclown said:
“Guess you wingnuts know what’s best for Chicagoans, eh Bike Butthead? You wouldn’t want to leave the decision to, say, Chicagoans.”
And they can also decide if they are hip to that whole “freedom of expression” thing too, right angryclown? Because the Bill of Rights was meant to be optional. *snicker*
Like I said, Troy, AC is projecting after participating in that video he wanted me to google. Who knew?
Wait, isn’t Harvey overwhelmingly low-income and Black? Refusal to deliver services to that area wouldn’t be tolerated by lenders, insurance companies or taxi drivers.
Redlining is racist. Somebody should FORCE unarmed postal workers to risk their lives there. Maybe Obama can sue?
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You wouldn’t want to leave the decision to, say, Chicagoans.
Because the Daley Machine is so good at that.