Stoners Jump Man Walking Home from Work
Cops say muggers were after 29-year-old man's backpack.
A 29-year-old man was jumped while walking home from work near Marion Avenue and 97th Street, reports said.
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Oak Lawn police said the man noticed two young males in the alley between Ridgeland and Marion as he walked home around 11:37 p.m. March 15.
As he continued walking, he felt someone try to pull off his backpack. The man heard one of the young males said, “come here, motherf---er. “
When the man spun around, he recognized the would-be mugger from the alley, a male white in his early twenties wearing a gray hoody, black skull cap and black pants.
The mugger’s pal, a male black with very short hair, also in his early twenties, stood to the side laughing, police said.
As the man was pulled to the ground, he yelled at the mugger to get off him. During the struggle the man punched the young mugger twice in the face, as he tried to pull off the man’s backpack.
When the other young male started toward him, the man was able to run eastbound toward 97th Street. He took one look back and saw both men running westbound toward Ridgeland Avenue and then north until he lost sight of them.
The man refused medical treatment, noting that the men who jumped him smelled like burnt cannabis.
Police searched the area but couldn’t find them.
JustTheFactsPlease
7:24 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The title of your article again shows you are not a journalist. Just the facts please regardless of how you wish to interpet them. Until then you dilute your credibility.
AyrLine
9:28 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Patch: High school level newsletter at it's best! Enquirer tabloid at it's worst.
aileen m.
9:23 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
"The man refused medical treatment, noting that the men who jumped him smelled like burnt cannabis."
Read the entire article before you make comments... or get a dictionary if you don't know what a 'big' word means...
taxpayer
9:29 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
You two are just as much as a bully as the two that jumped this poor man walking home from work. If you two are not happy with the way the article was written... turn off your computer, walk away... and have a nice day. Every day I enjoy reading the Patch and I see nothing but bullies complaining on how the article was written. If you think you can do better. You work countless unpaid hours and you do the work. Thank you and have a nice complaint free day!
High Hopes for OL
11:41 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
You go Taxpayer !!!! AGREE WITH YOU!!!
Phree
1:38 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Well said 'taxpayer', I read the Patch everyday and I appreciate the information especially since we wouldn't know about much without the Patch. You guys should be grateful and stop hating! This isn't USA Today, it's an online community newsletter.
We Deserve Better
3:00 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
It's hack journalism. And if you accept this as your source of information that is sad. Oak Lawn deserves better.
We Deserve Better
3:03 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Lorraine refers to herself as a JOURNALIST in her onsite bio:
Lorraine Swanson is the first member of her family to live south of Roosevelt Road since her grandmother stopped the rag man from whipping his horse in Gage Park in 1910.
She is a veteran community journalist, writing and/or editing weeklies for Lerner Newspapers, Pioneer Press and Chicago Journal. Most recently, Lorraine had her own community news site covering Chicago's Far North Side neighborhoods called Lake Effect News.
I am just pointing out that a PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST she is not.
High Hopes for OL
3:18 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
No one tells you to read it. I dont care for a lot of shows on TV. Guess what I just dont tune in.
Phree
3:37 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
And a professional hater you are, you went great lengths to continue your bashing if only more civilians would put that effort in to something more productive... Instead of reading the Patch, since you dislike it so much, use that time taking elders out to run errands, go citizen arrest vandals a the park, pick up trash along 99th or copy plates of speeders down Cicero, do something constructive.
Dave
3:52 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
She gets paid to write for an online news site. That makes her a professional journalist. Personally, I like her writing style, a lot. It's like talking to a neighbor about what happened in the neighborhood. You can tell by her style and content that the stories actually mean something to her.too. Every journalist has a style. It seems you don't like Lorraine's much and that's fine. There are plenty of places you can go on the virtually endless internet and read news written by some person who feels above what they are reporting. Go for it.
Paul Mancillas
3:39 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
If all the detractors can do better why don't they? Oh, I forgot, they are probably writing for a major publication that's why I've heard of them before! If you don't like something, find something else and let people take the articles for what they are, news! Not a professional publication!
Joey1979
4:28 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
why do people have to ALWAYS find something to complain about??? Here's an easy solution....if you don't like the Patch,then unlike them on FB and move on!!
Sarah
6:18 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
They hide behind fake names and talk tough because they are too chicken to say who they really are! Don't take them too seriously if they don't have a backbone! This is PATCH...not the Wall Street Journal! Grow up!
James smith
6:54 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Opinions are like assholes; there's a lot of them on the comment section of the patch! Keep up the good work patch. Fine job in my book.
CD
9:01 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
As someone who walks to and from work, I appreciate this article. This is what local news is for. Not sure what everyone else even came to this article for if they're just complaining.
AndyLuvsLorraine
5:54 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
I'm all for reporting of the local news. But JOURNALISM is the act of reporting such news WITHOUT the slant of the reporters views or conclusions....ie "stoners comment". By doing so Lorraine taints her reporting as bias. I am merely pointing out that she keeps reducing her integrity everytime she does so. If she writes a story as an OPINION piece that is different. If we continue to accept blurry lines in journalism then the standard continues to slip and we are left with gossip, and muddled FACTS.
Don Hall
1:53 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Their feelings were hurt about the word "stoner". Surprised they put down the bong long enough to log onto the Patch.