That's amazing.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
will read!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
How do people think they'll get away with this shit? They might for a while but there are *always* paper trails.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
I heard that story this morning on the radio, and the announcer said she stole all that money "without being caught"... my immediate thought was "Yes she did get caught, that's why you're talking about it!"
― Silky Slim (dan m), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
People be self destructive!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
also we only know about the people who get caught - we have no idea how many people have gotten away with similar crimes
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
...or are currently getting away with highway robbery
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
this shit is why i have a hard time reading fiction
i gasped really loudly last night when i discovered that this person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Schmitz and this person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_Letourneau were blood relatives.
OMG
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
maybe that was big-revealed at some point during her many years in the spotlight, but if i ever knew that factoid i had completely forgotten it. that is a pretty good factoid!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
Nick, I'm sure there are plenty of people have gotten away with their embezzlement, but it seems to me like eventually the work of your average thief will show. This is all my speculation about shit I'm no expert about, but still. How many of the people who are never caught get away with their crimes b/c of bad oversight rather than because they made sure they wouldn't get caught.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
I think this sort of thing happens a lot in small IL towns, although maybe not to this scale. I also wonder the extent to which this kind of things happens at higher levels of government.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
i'm just saying, maybe that's how they justify it to themselves. also almost everyone thinks they're smarter than most other people. but i am also fascinated by people who think they will get away with crazy huge crimes like this
i am kind of obsessed with this story and want to make a movie about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst (there have already been documentaries about it but i want like a narrative story movie)
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
(though crowhurst i think realized he wouldn't get away with it by the end)
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
I would watch your movie, n/a.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
this is a really good book that i have and can lend to people if they are interestedhttp://www.amazon.com/Strange-Voyage-Crowhurst-Nicholas-Tomalin/dp/0070650845
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
did you guys already know that evil conservative john schmitz and mary kay le tourneau were father and daughter?
Letourneau was born Mary Katherine Schmitz in Tustin, California, to university professor John G. Schmitz and chemist Mary Schmitz.[3][4] She was known as Mary Kay to her family and called "Cake" by her father.[5] She was the fourth of seven children, raised in a "strict Catholic household."[5][6] When she was 2 years old, her father began his political career and successfully ran as a Republican for a seat in the state legislature.[6] He held positions as a California state senator and U.S. Congressman and, after changing parties, he ran for president as an American Independent Party candidate in the 1972 U.S. presidential election.[7][8]
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
Her story is BAZONKERS.
i had never heard of john schmitz before
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
we were talking about people who were on the take, and that guy -- that guy has a son, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schmitz
Joseph Edward Schmitz (born on August 28, 1956 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin)[1] is an American lawyer, former Inspector General of the Department of Defense and a former executive with Blackwater Worldwide, a private contractor providing security services to the U.S. State Department and the U.S. military.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
So I was reading a book about Blackwater, and here comes Mary Kay LeTourneau! That was a great moment.
Anyway, I love all of these stories. You guys are on top of it.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
LL, I have no idea who either of those people are. Or didn't until now.
We just got done suing a woman who embezzled $70K from her employer over 2 years. She did it by ordering an extra pay check for herself every pay cycle.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Our firm helped put together the the criminal case against the woman and the part that struck me the most about it was that the detective told us that when the time came to actually arrest her, the procedure was to call 911, not the cops we had been talking to for weeks.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
I only learned who they were yesterday, don't feel bad.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
Nhu Lan opened a location in Lakeviewhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/nhu-lan-chicago-2
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Never heard of it
― Jeff, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard of it from jaymc and I think n/a.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
nhu lan is great but now that they have a location in lakeview it's not special and cool anymore and so I won't go there
― deploying a sewer otter unit (askance johnson), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
I was sad that it replaced an Asian tea bubble tea shop that also served shaved ice cream. That stuff was delicious. A serving in a regular size bowl was nearly a foot high, but it was not that much ice cream. So light and refreshing.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Friday, 20 April 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
i like nhu lan, they have veggie banh mi that aren't just vegetables
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
for u podcast lovers (I dunno maybe you have seen this before?)
http://thetruthapm.com/The_Truth.html
― Silky Slim (dan m), Monday, 23 April 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-south-side-man-scores-in-locker-auction-2-bulls-championship-rings-20120424,0,421039.story
LOL Todd Stroger can't pay his storage space bill.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
Err I guess John Stroger's estate can't pay his storage space bill.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.suntimes.com/news/12103989-418/council-overwhelmingly-approves-mayors-city-financing-plan.html
"HMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmeow." - je55e
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
the city of chicago, brought to you by ________________
― Silky Slim (dan m), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
That article was light on actual information. Great reporting suntimes.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
Couple paragraphs of editorializing at the end, too.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not opposed to the idea of privatization if it works and doesn't end up ruining everything.
Big if.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder why Waguespack opposed.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
From his website, he seems to have concerns about oversight and "key shortcomings." I'm inferring based on a post from Monday. He hasn't posted a response yet.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
So vague.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
I am v against privatization.
― Silky Slim (dan m), Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:44 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
Welcome to Doritosburgh.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
This trust thing seems ridiculous and awful, but the details are so vague that I can't really be sure.
― deploying a sewer otter unit (askance johnson), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
that is exactly why i don't trust privatization ^^ details shadowy and vague, likely to remain so
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
That's also how our city government works. And they are corrupt, largely disinterested in impact on citizens, and they can't get anything done while infrastructure crumbles around us.
I don love privatization as a solution, but I don't think it's going to be any worse.
The lack of detail bugs me the most, but that's coming from our existing government.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
At least there are rules in place (even if they're not applied) for oversight of govt abuse of power -- not so with these trusts, private companies.
Also please know that I am still slogging through that Blackwater book, so I'm comfortably seated in paranoid nutjob territory when it comes to privatization of public services.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
I can't deny that it's troubling. I am coming from the "I have seen the inner workings of government and it's worse than you think" perspective.
A better government is obv the best solution but I don't even know how to make that happen.
And I'll admit that I will happily ride The Dorito's Cool Ranch Elevation Train if Doritos pays to make stations accessible to people with disabilities. (So they'd have to do better than Apple, those shitbirds.)
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
North & Apple Redline isn't accessible?? Is there not an elevator?
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
What if the Doritos train donates a portion of their hefty corporate profits to a super far right organization that you totally disagree with (for instance, one that limits reproductive rights), but you have no choice but to ride the Doritos train to go to work, so you are in effect contributing to the far right organization against your will?
This shit keeps me up at night! AGH
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
Also privatizing infrastructure funding is maybe not as problematic/murder-encouraging as privatizing police and law enforcement and military a la Blackwater.
xp NOPE. It's got half an escalator and then steps. You can't get to the surface without taking some steps. Basically Apple shined up the outside and left the rest as a filthy, inaccessible shitheap.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
True, but man do I dislike privatization.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link