More Dumb Crooks

I barely finish one blog about dumb crooks and, wow, get to write about more.

Seems like a Chicago man who's been arrested sixty-four times got nailed again the other day. He allegedly hid inside the Loop Macy's until after closing time and then tried to escape with some merchandise. Cops were wise to his stunt and confronted him. He reportedly resisted and was Tasered. While some may argue that Tasers are cruel and inhumane and instruments of torture, I really don't feel sorry for this guy. Do you? If you do, write and tell me why, please. Happy to have you air your feelings.

And then we travel out to Schaumburg which seems to have been home to a bunch of hookers lately. After getting stung in a sting a week ago, one of the young ladies allegedly went back to the same hotel with a buddy the other night and tried to hold up a couple of other upstanding citizens at gunpoint. A gunfight broke out. The accused hooker's boyfriend of two years (according to her mama) wound up dead and the victim and a couple of others including the alleged hooker, were wounded.

Flash forward to today in court. The accused hooker, now charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery, hears the judge set her bail at 3 million dollars and collapses, hyperventilating to the courtroom floor. I wonder if she pulled the same stunt when she was was arrested for battery, aggravated assault and resisting arrest in Winnebago County last year; or when she received a three-year sentence for a Kane County robbery conviction in 2006; or when she got probation in a 2004 felony retail theft charge and, separately, for aggravated battery to a police officer in Kane County in 2004?

For those wondering why she was charged with murder in this case without firing a shot, it's called the felony murder rule and provides that anyone charged in a felony crime resulting in death can be held responsible for that death.

What's great about this case, however, is that no one who really matters died. I don't see the boyfriend as any loss to society (was he also her pimp?). And were the 'victims' of this alleged 'robbery' really victims?

The Tribune quotes her mama as saying, "I can't believe this is happening. I can't believe she lost her boyfriend and is charged with his murder."

Believe it, Mom.