Sunday morning feel good story

| July 5, 2015

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, three fellows trying to turn their lives around tried a smash-and -grab at a local sporting goods store. They crashed a stolen van through the front of the business. A few months before, the business which sells a lot high-end sporting merchandise like sneakers, jeans and designer wear was broken into. The owner says that they have to repair several windows occasionally. Him and his employee have been swapping shifts sleeping in the store at night. About six months ago, the owner was shot by a thief.

Last night, however, his employee was ready for the smash-and-grab and ventilated one of the thieves. His two partners were kind enough to take him to the hospital where police rounded up all three. reports are that the wounded feller is in serious condition.

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Valkyrie

So here we have a hard working small business owner providing jobs in a bad part of town. After 7 or 8 break ins,he’s bound to get fed up and move out of there. People wonder why certain areas are bad and this is why. You try to help people but there will always be the bad ones that are the reason we can’t have nice things.

I refuse to comment on the street name and how there’s one in every “bad part” of major cities.

OK I lied. In the older area of Kissimmee Florida they renamed a street MLK Blv. It was a low crime area but now is one of the roads you do not drive down after dark. I am not trying to insult or insinuate anyone or anything, just mentioned something I found curious.

Old Trooper

Not only that, but his insurance premiums, for his business, must be getting pretty expensive, since he’s had to repair his business several times.

Valkyrie

I was thinking that while watching the video. I bet they cancel his policy. Or jack the rates so high that he can’t afford to stay in that location. I feel bad for the guy. Not to mention his medical bills because he was shot a few months ago.

UpNorth

Probably at the point where he pays for the windows and other repairs out of pocket, rather than submit claims. Either way, it will make his business unsustainable, especially in that location.

desert

dumbass talking head reporter says “do we know why anyone was in the building at that time of the morning”? Duh, the dilbert ass what do you think he was there for? to shoot cockroaches and it worked!

MrBill

You’re not the only one to observe this –

farmgirl with a mosin nagant

This is also true in South Florida. They renamed an older stretch in Broward County MLK Blvd. I don’t know what it was like before the rename, but when I knew it, it was definitely a ‘do not go here alone/after dark’area.

Heavily populated by ethnic minorities although not exclusively (broke college students lived there too) with a lot of drug use, litter, etc. And a rep for not being a good place for white girls to go.

Thunderstixx

I have traveled through most major cities in the US and have found that MLK Blvd is a road that us crackers had better stay off of.
Unfortunately, that is the way it is in the big cities in America these days.
Oh, but, we aren’t supposed to talk about that, we might hurt someone’s feelings and we can’t have that…
The Milwaukee PD is a horrible PD that follows the liberal plans of the absolutely useless mayor of Milwaukee Tom Barrett.
Barrett wants to solve the crime problem in Milwaukee by spending a half a billion dollars on his wonderful trolley that won’t go anywhere near the hood!
Ya just gotta love them libs, they can baffle everyone with BS, well, not everyone I guess.

GDContractor

In Dallas, we have a Malcolm X Blvd. and a Cesar Chavez. Lucky us.

Hack Stone

The road that runs to the main gate of Joint Base Annacostia-Bolling is Malolm X Blvd, which interests with MLK. All the crime and murders occurring in that area are a direct result of the Confederate flag being displayed on the General Lee.

Sparks

What no DRT? My morning is starting out sour.

SSG E

Buck up, Sparks – there’s still a chance for a DOT, given that he’s in bad shape!

Sparks

Thanks SSG E, I feel better now just thinking about it.

Ex-PH2

This smash and grab thing is spreading. It’s hitting cities like Chicago in expensive neighborhoods where there are designer products and it’s also going to suburban shopping malls for the same thing.

From the videos shown with the news stories, it appears to be 4 to 6 people who drive a van (usually stolen) through a storefront, grab everything they can carry and bolt out the door to a getaway car. They aren’t just doing it after hours, either.

I haven’t heard about it from Philly or NYC, but I’m sure there are plenty of places where it’s happening that don’t make my news feed just yet. At some point, it will be a big enough crime to make the Sunday news discussion circles on those Sunday AM talk shows – you know the ones I mean: they’re all shocked and they’re all concerned, but they live in padded, insulated worlds where such things never happen, and change the subject quickly.

UpNorth

Might be a good time to go into the concrete post business. Just make sure the employees set the posts so that a car or van can’t get between them.
I was at such smash and grab, the people who set the concrete barrier posts put them about 12 feet apart.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

That was all the rage for a period of time after the Luby’s shooting in Killeen.

Time to start up again it appears.

Hack Stone

Not that uncommon in the National Capital Region. I guess that they needed all of those watches so they won’t be late for their jobs.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Watches-Worth-600000-Stolen-in-Pentagon-City-Smash-and-Grab-199056271.html

Sparks

A 30 second smash and grab. I’d say, it was well planned, prior reconnaissance for the best merchandise and timed to the second. Not usual for the run of the mill thug.

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

That is awful, horrible story … oh the humainty!

I hope they can get the windows and doors fixed soon …

FatCircles0311

I bet they are already hack on the street. You know just like the scum that killed the grad student in DC in broad daylight and was arrested for robbery the same week but was let go with a misdemeanor.

Only thing you can count on these days for any justice is what you carry.