LAKEVIEW — In what was sure to be a real scoop for this Chicago Genius reporter and maybe even a ticket to our open editor position, which has been vacant since our last editor started asking too many questions about Big Hot Dog, we got a tip about where some of the recent prolific carjackers would be, a gas station in Lakeview.
Long story short, when we drove to the location and began to question them, well, we don’t really want to talk about it.
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At any rate we’re walking home now.
Maybe we could have seen this coming, but it is our responsibility to this city to get clicks and newsletter subscriptions for our CEO’s nephew’s website. It's called being a journalist and we didn’t spend 6 years getting a masters degree to not get a gun drawn on us for a piece that could’ve been dictated from bed into an iphone and published with a stock photo of police sirens.
But boy, it turns out that they’re really serious about that carjacking thing.
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Even with the 46 CPD vehicles that arrived on scene because there was a crime committed in Lakeview, the carjackers had absconded scot-free with my spotless 1998 Honda Civic with optional side-view mirrors.
“Yeah they’ve been stealing a lot of cars and driving around in them,” recounted Police Sergeant Richard Kowalski, 46, in an interview we conducted in order to pad out this piece a little bit.
Kowalski says they aren’t sure why there have been so many carjackings, but he’s certain that they are happening.
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“We know for sure that the suspects know how to drive cars, so we’re asking citizens to be wary of anyone driving an automobile.” Kowalski continued, “And especially be wary of anyone pointing a gun at you and telling you to get out of your vehicle. That’s a dead giveaway that they’re up to no good.”
It was at this point that we asked the officer for a ride home, but he said he had a thing and we were afraid to press him on what that meant so we started walking home.
