I don't get it...

[tulip]

On one of the street I take there are frequently lots of teenagers hanging out. One time, there were ALOT, and they were spilling into the street. I passed by, they saw me, and one put his hand out. I don't know if it was to me, or it was just a gesture, but whatever, I gave him a high five as I passed and he said, "She gave me a five!". Now I'm cool.

Of course, he could have easily taken me down, but I don't think he expected the high five.

[mimitabby]

good thinking Tulip!

[Sheesh]

I have a coworker who used to ride his bike through the West Side on his way to work, and the kids would sometimes throw rocks at him. Be careful!

[massbikebabe]

Boy:

Even our future society is screwed up eh. I'd grab the little ba$st@rd by the arm and drag him home to his loving mother. I have no time for cr@p like that and if my kids were doing it I would want to know about it. We have a little
creep like that in my area...cept he likes to play "chicken" with on coming cars. His mother thinks he is cute. Someday he is going to lose this game and I am going to have to limp out of my house and play nurse on his sorry butt.
I just hope nobody I know is the one to hit him. The person who does will never recover because he jumps out so quickly that they would have to have great reflexes not to hit him. We have called the police, etc., yet the game continues. Someday he will prove to his mother that he ain't that cute...sadly
it will happen when he is pinned under the wheels of a car. Today when I was trying to walk he tried to kick my crutches out from under my arms. I gave him the "mommy death stare" that my kids get and he took off. I am sorry to say I hate that kid!!!!

karen
blood still boiling over the crutch thing!!!

[Veronica]

That sounds like a seriously sick kid. How old is he?

V.

[massbikebabe]

V;

I totally agree, and have expressed my concerns to his mother who told me it "is a boy thing". I think he is about 12 or 13, he is two or so years younger than my son. My husband thinks this kid is responsible everytime a cat or dog is missing, sadly I fear he is right!!



karen

[Veronica]

I wonder if you could have called the cops for attempted assault when he tried to kick out your crutches.

I think his mother is living in Egypt on a big river.

V.

[tulip]

V;

I totally agree, and have expressed my concerns to his mother who told me it "is a boy thing". I think he is about 12 or 13, he is two or so years younger than my son. My husband thinks this kid is responsible everytime a cat or dog is missing, sadly I fear he is right!!



karen

sounds like a call to DSS Child Protective Services to report neglect might be in order.

[betagirl]

Well, I do have crohn's so I can projectile many things Ok, that was gross.

So today I took Diversey home. I don't know which is worse. I about got hit by a bus, a limo, and had 3 pedestrians walk in front of me. And that was all on LaSalle I literally said to the 3rd pedestrian "what the f--k?" Maybe it's a bad karma day. Though I don't think I did anything recently to set that in motion.

[Lise]

I have a coworker who used to ride his bike through the West Side on his way to work, and the kids would sometimes throw rocks at him. Be careful!

I used to live on Taylor and Racine. It was time to move when the kids from the projects across the street started throwing rocks at us. When I have to run to dodge the rocks being thrown at my head...I'm outta there. Huge irony: They tore down the projects. Now they're condos.

A lot of these kids have nobody to be hauled home to, or nobody who cares, or you'd be killed before you got to wherever you were trying to drag them. Some of those kids wouldn't mind using a cyclist for target practice, not at all.
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Karen, I'm with you, that's not a "boy" thing, that's a sociopath thing. 12 or 13 is not too young to be charged with assault and battery.

[Sheesh]

Lise - I work at UIC and am amazed at the change in the neighborhood just in the three years that I have worked here. I can't even afford any of the condos that are going up where the projects used to be.

[Lise]

Lise - I work at UIC and am amazed at the change in the neighborhood just in the three years that I have worked here. I can't even afford any of the condos that are going up where the projects used to be.

I ran the Marathon last year, which took me right through that intersection. I was stunned to see that the projects were gone, and in their place there were...yuppie housing projects! Starting at 1/4 million $. WOW. How the times change. I lived there when Mayor Washington was first elected. Tense times.