Okay, here's something you don't see every day — unless, of course, you live in Chicago.
Yes, crime is so awful in Chiraq that they literally have news crews who are reporting on crime waves being mugged at gunpoint on the streets. No joke.
A reporter and photojournalist were preparing to do a live shot about the latest robbery spree when a holdup crew rolled up to them in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee shortly before 5 a.m.
Without identifying the victims as a news crew, a Chicago police spokesperson confirmed that a 28-year-old man and a 42-year-old man were outside in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee when a black SUV and a gray sedan pulled up around 4:53 a.m. Three men got out of the vehicles wearing ski masks and displaying guns.
They took the victims' personal belongings, went into their work vehicle, and stole the station's camera, a source familiar with the crime confirmed, adding that the victims were working for Univision.
What's crazy is they're not even the first Chicago news crew to be mugged this year.
Wild, how crazy it's gotten in Chicago...
It's like a third world country some places down there, and I'm not exaggerating.
Here's what the crew was reporting on when they were mugged at gunpoint:
A burst of robberies hit Wicker Park and Bucktown on Sunday afternoon. Based on the description of the offenders' getaway car, a gray Nissan with heavily tinted windows, officers believed it was the same crew responsible for a similar crime spree on Saturday.
Sunday's afternoon holdups began around 2:55 p.m. in the 1800 block of West Cortland. A CPD spokesperson said a 54-year-old man was parking in his garage when two robbers exited a gold Nissan Altima and took property from him and a 22-year-old woman in his car.
More incidents quickly followed:
- Several masked men robbed a woman in the 400 block of North Carpenter around 4 p.m.
- A group tried to rob a man in the 1300 block of North Wicker Park around 4:05 p.m. But witnesses intervened, and the offenders fled.
- The crew tried to take a white SUV in the 1100 block of North Hermitage around 4:10 p.m. That effort also failed.
- Another robbery attempt was reported near Bloomingdale and Winchester around 4:20 p.m. Officers who responded said they spoke with a neighborhood security patrol officer who saw a delivery driver get robbed, but the victim was gone when cops arrived.
- The group apparently tried to carjack another vehicle in the 1600 block of West Chicago around 4:30 p.m. That attempt also failed, officers said.
As the robberies were unfolding, a Chicago police officer radioed that they saw the crew's getaway car traveling on Damen near Wabansia around 4:12 p.m. But the cops also radioed that they were neither following nor pursuing the vehicle full of armed men.
And that's just Sunday afternoon, folks.
So you're gonna wanna go ahead and keep yourselves as far away from these big cities as possible.
And if you're part of a Chicago news crew, well, I'd suggest you stay strapped out there, cuz you never know what's gonna happen.
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