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Man is dragged by car after defending Christmas decorations from vandals
Chicago Tribune ^ | Dec. 2, 2007 | Jeff Long

Posted on 12/02/2007 7:37:49 PM PST by FocusNexus

A Hoffman Estates man said Sunday that he is recovering from the minor injuries suffered when he was dragged by a car carrying youths who stomped on and broke pieces of the Christmas display that has illuminated his yard for 17 years.

"There was about seven or eight boys just absolutely destroying our Christmas decorations," he said. "Just stomping, ripping and breaking them to pieces."

OBrill, 46, of the 4000 block of Winston Drive, said he stood in front of one of the two vehicles that the vandals jumped into.

"I got in front of the first car, thinking it was going to stop," OBrill said. "He just kind of ran me down."

OBrill's hand got caught in the windshield wiper, was dragged a short distance and his left foot was run over. He did not get the license number of either vehicle.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christman; christmas; christmasdecorations; vandals; youths
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Christmas decorations cover the home of Phillip OBrill shortly before vandals attacked on Friday night. (Family photo)

There is also a video of the damage at the link.

This is more than ordinary vandalism, this is pure evil.

1 posted on 12/02/2007 7:37:51 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus

this is infuriating


2 posted on 12/02/2007 7:39:30 PM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: FocusNexus

Bingo.


3 posted on 12/02/2007 7:43:10 PM PST by AliVeritas (CNN: Pravda, only dumber.)
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To: FocusNexus
...dragged by a car carrying youths...

Hopefully, this is not being used as a euphemism for You Know Who.
4 posted on 12/02/2007 7:46:46 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: FocusNexus

What a nice way to ruin your lives, children.

I hope they’re charged as adults.


5 posted on 12/02/2007 7:46:46 PM PST by abercrombie_guy_38
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To: FocusNexus

I wonder if these “boys” were members of a certain “tolerant” religion that gets offended easily?


6 posted on 12/02/2007 7:47:59 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: abercrombie_guy_38

Not likely, since the homeowner didn’t even get a license plate number.


7 posted on 12/02/2007 7:48:20 PM PST by phrogphlyer
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To: FocusNexus

The Young Democrat Association of Illinois on an outreach program.


8 posted on 12/02/2007 7:48:35 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven’t cut taxes enough.” –Milton Friedman)
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To: FocusNexus

Perhaps this is just a dry run by the youths for future membership in the ACLU??


9 posted on 12/02/2007 7:49:16 PM PST by supremedoctrine ('Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length' --Robert Frost)
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To: FocusNexus

Hope the homeowner will use a brick to their windshield rather than putting himself at risk next time.


10 posted on 12/02/2007 7:50:47 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: FocusNexus

My brother lives in greater Chicago near a large infestation of Christian hating muslims. Wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t islamic rage-boys.


11 posted on 12/02/2007 7:50:53 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven’t cut taxes enough.” –Milton Friedman)
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To: FocusNexus

Too bad this wasn’t about an armed homeowner defending himself and his property...


12 posted on 12/02/2007 7:52:16 PM PST by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North (If you are, as Rush would say, "A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" don't waste my time...)
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To: FocusNexus

"IT WASN'T ME! (oh, and Death to America!)"

13 posted on 12/02/2007 7:54:33 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: All

ARTICLE SNIPPET:

“...when he was dragged by a car carrying youths...”

Youths
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=youths


14 posted on 12/02/2007 7:57:42 PM PST by Cindy
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To: FormerACLUmember

I was thinking the Amish


15 posted on 12/02/2007 8:00:56 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: FocusNexus

islamodemocommucrats or nihilists, same ilk.


16 posted on 12/02/2007 8:01:59 PM PST by onedoug
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“islamodemocommucrats or nihilists, same ilk.”

Bingo!


17 posted on 12/02/2007 8:04:17 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus

Sounds like what this guy needs is a paintball gun with balls loaded alternatively with neon paint and hot pepper powder.


18 posted on 12/02/2007 8:27:44 PM PST by Popocatapetl
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He needs video cameras around his house, that way he could have taped the whole attack, with license plate and the faces of the atatckers.

But he didn’t expect such a vicious attack.

The vandals were methodically destroying his Christmas decorations. This was not a “childish prank”.

These are the same type of “youths” rioting in France — attack and destroy, just because...

France stunned by rioters’ savagery

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2983714.ece

“IN retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home. Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns.

What happened next has sickened the nation. As Illy tried to reassure the gang that there would be an investigation into the deaths of two teenagers whose motorbike had just collided with a police car, he heard a voice shouting: “Somebody must pay for this. Some pigs must die tonight!”

The 43-year-old commissaire realised it was time to leave, but that was not possible: they set his car ablaze. He stood as the mob closed in on him, parrying the first few baseball bat blows with his arms. An iron bar in the face knocked him down.

“I tried to roll myself into a ball on the ground,” said Illy from his hospital bed. He was breathing with difficulty because several of his ribs had been broken and one had punctured his lung.

His bruised and bloodied face signalled a worrying new level of barbarity in the mainly Muslim banlieues, where organised gangs of rioters used guns against police in a two-day rampage of looting and burning last week. “


19 posted on 12/02/2007 8:34:33 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: Nathan Zachary
"I wonder if these “boys” were members of a certain “tolerant” religion that gets offended easily? "

They never had any religion. They never had any respect for anyone. ...and their as gay as fruitiest candy 'sses in the gay pride parades.

20 posted on 12/02/2007 8:34:35 PM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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