Chicago TV reporter leaves the studio, and The Loop, long enough to absorb a little bit of life in Chicago’s Democrat-addled slum neighborhoods – and is amazed to see signs of a war zone, in a piece entitled with glorious cluelessness “Bulletproof Subways A Sign Of Violent Times?”:
Just another day at Subway in Chicago
While out on an unrelated assignment, CBS 2 investigative reporter Dave Savini decided to stop by a South Side Subway sandwich shop for a meal.
Savini was struck by the fact that the counter of the store at 116th Street and South Halsted was encased in bullet-proof glass.
Such a sight would be common at crime magnets like gas stations or currency exchanges, but a Subway?
One wonders where these media hamsters have been the past 15 years.
The first restaurant I saw bullet-proofing its employees’ work area was a White Castle on the 1/9 in Newark (hell yeah, I ordered) back in 2003.
More amazing, perhaps? The KFC near Abbot Northwestern in south Minneapolis had a completely enclosed bullet-proof counter in 2005.
No wonder the Chicago bloodbath has gotten so little media coverage; not only do the media lick Rahm Emanuel’s shoes clean, but none of them have the foggiest idea what goes on in their city.
20? years ago in St Louis I fed my money and got my White Castle through a funky door/window thing behind bullet proof glass.
25+ years ago I worked for a prestigious media conglomerate in the not prestigious division that put the product (magazines in this case) in the stores. We were installing magazine racks in 7-11’s throughout Chicago and two of us were assigned the Southside. Growing up in Detroit I was used to bulletproof glass at liquor stores, banks and the pharmacy of the drug store. But these 7-11’s had bulletproof glass around the cashier area. How a reporter could have missed this until now surprises me. But then, most Chicago reporters spend all of their time hounding the few Republicans there are in Chicago and looking away from Democrat corruption and incompetence, I suppose I shouldn’t be so surprised.
white castle always has been on the cultural cutting edge – making a profit serving the barbarian hoard since 1921!
I used to live at 144th & Halsted…we used to get on our bikes and go wherever the wind blew us. The only threat we ever knew came in the form of the Harvey kids crossing the IC tracks to take over our hockey pond.
Mitch, did you see the news on Fritz Mondale. Some sort of lawsuit where he paid a woman 30% less than he was paying a man who had the same job title.
He says there are other factors involved, but I see a sexist war on woman hypocrite.
Hey, now, I ate breakfast at White Castle 20 minutes ago. Try the Belgian waffle sandwich. They have real Belgian waffle with real egg not some yellow concoction, and the bacon was nice and crisp. $2.50. Hell of a good breakfast at White Castle.
One wonders where these media hamsters have been the past 15 years.
Can you say liberal enclaves far from reality?
I knew you could.
Seriously, the south side of Chicago is a war zone and has been for as long as I can remember. I broke down there once and was damned happy to have quick AAA response for once, and that was before it turned into what it is now.
A guy I used to work with noted that when he moved from Detroit to Utah 30 years back, he had to explain that the padlock on the hood of his car was so that people wouldn’t steal the battery and air filter back in Detroit.
I have always been amazed at the unwillingness of big city journalists to take a look at what’s going on in the neighborhoods they’re supposedly covering, and to ask themselves how things are working out for the residents. It’s as if they don’t read the very newspapers they’re producing.
(same thing goes for community organizers…..OK, how did Dear Leader live and work in the South Side of Chicago for 20 years and not figure out that there was something very different and wrong going on there?)
Good God. Almost every furniture run I go on that doesn’t stop at Chris Neugent’s involves neighborhoods featuring convenient stores with bulletproof glass. I had a place refuse me service once, for crying out loud.
Things happen when a libturd steps out of a limousine. Does not happen very often on the wrong side of the tracks, however.
Just about everyone now days, not just reporters, lives in a two-dimensional world that only exists on a screen. People can work from home, visit distant relatives and lands, and see what’s happening, on some sort of device. That is good in many applications, but is making us into a second-hand, non-experiential society. One example I’ve noticed is at gun and guitar shows, shops, etc. The average age of enthusiasts for both is increasing.
Perhaps this is due to a younger generation who can simulate, via Guitar Hero, digital instruments, and first person shooter games all the fun (as far as they’re concerned) of making music without having to learn all the boring stuff, or shooting at fun moving targets without handling a dirty, evil old gun.
There’s an obvious difference, but they are still able to engage in such musical and military masturbation techniques whenever they want. Of course all the old fools buying-up all the available .22LR ammo doesn’t help either.
Consequently, our journalists can become armchair experts on any region or society while seated at their desk. However, every once in a while one of them dares to venture out and stories like the above are written …
Maybe this explains how the Strib reporter can get away with not having a car to get to where he needs to see. That is, he doesn’t get there, just gives a call or “googles” it to get his story.
Explains, IMO, why a lot of their stories make no sense, no?