Last week we covered an attempt to seek out some “street justice” after an older couple was robbed by armed thugs in a likely stolen (carjacked) car.  Now, Second City Cop reports on a second case.  Not only does this one look like “street justice” but it also appears a whole lot more successful for the good guys.

In short, a career burglar was exiting an “unknown” garage when he got thumped with a blunt force instrument.  And the people doing the thumping “tried to take his bike.”

Here, let me offer an alternative description.  Mr. Burglar was in someone’s garage who didn’t appreciate a dirtbag stealing the homeowner’s property.  So he beat the crap out of the guy with a baseball bat and trashed his bike so the mope would have to walk his happy butt home AND would have limited mobility until he stole another bike.

From SCC:

…This could be the same thing – note the victim:

  • [taken from 016 District community newsletter emailed this way] 31 Oct 0225hrs, Att Robbery, unk / 5400 W Montrose area, alley, JG485307: Victim (IR#1623461, mult Burg hist) relates was exiting an unk garage when he was battered with a blunt object by unk offenders who then tried to take his bicycle.

So the victim:

  • has an IR number with multiple burglary arrests
  • and he was “exiting an unk garage” which we take to mean it wasn’t his garage
  • and he was battered by “unk offenders”

Who would batter a guy coming out of a garage that wasn’t his?

  • maybe….the homeowner?

Maybe not. Maybe we’re completely off base. But it’s fun to think that vigilantism is slowly spreading across the city and suddenly, a lot of our job is going to be giving reports to criminals at the hospital after they got caught doing things they shouldn’t be doing.

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