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Mob of Teens Reportedly Steals $3,000 Worth of ‘Nudie’ Jeans From Chicago Store

Jul. 30, 2012 10:56pm Erica Ritz

Flash Mob Hits Chicago to Steal $3,000 Worth of Nudie Jeans After Rahm Emanuel Lectures Country on Chicago Values Over Chick Fil A

(Photo: YouTube)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been talking a lot about “Chicago values” recently, saying, for instance, that they are not in line with Chick-Fil-A because the company’s president believes in traditional marriage.

Earlier this month, in a heartfelt plea to clean up the city, Emanuel told the city’s “gang bangers” to “take [their] stuff to the alley” and to “stay away from the kids.”

“And it is about values,” Emaneul elaborated. “Who raised you? How were you raised? And I don’t buy this case where people say they don’t have values. They do have values– they have the wrong values.”

But what happens when the city’s teenagers are contributing to the crime rate? How do flash-mobs factor into “Chicago values”?

CBS Chicago has video of a recent looting in a Chicago neighborhood:

Here is more information, via CBS Chicago:

From the moment the teens started flooding in the door at Mildblend Supply Co. on Milwaukee Avenue around 6:40 p.m. Saturday, [store owner Luke Cho] knew something wasn’t right.

You see a group a group of teenagers walking in – or marching in – one-by-one. As you can see, it looks like it’s some kind of procession,” Cho said while reviewing the surveillance video on Sunday.

To Cho, it looked like a flash mob was about to rob the store, so he immediately locked the door.

“At least I think I kind of maybe stopped the flow a little bit, but I quickly realized something bad’s about to happen, and I alerted my staff to call 911,” Cho said.

Most of the group flocked to an corner of the store right beneath a security camera, and appeared to know exactly what they were looking for: an exclusive, expensive brand of jeans called Nudie Jeans, which average about $200 a pair. [Emphasis added]

Cho uploaded the store’s security footage to YouTube in an effort to help nab the perpetrators:

The store’s owner said that after he locked up the store, more people outside started banging on the door, presumably in an effort to get in. However, it’s difficult to know how aggressive they were without sound for the security footage.

Based on his experience, Cho predicts such “flash” robberies are likely to become more common.

“I think if they zero in on a product they want to steal, they’re going to go anywhere, and basically organize, and plan it to hit what they want,” he explained.

To top it all off, it reportedly took police about 30 minutes to arrive after Cho placed the 911 call.

Officers said they were delayed by the many street closures for Wicker Park Fest and, though they’re investigating the robbery, there were no arrests as of Sunday afternoon.

(H/T: Drudge Report)

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kcares
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:31am
Why are so many white guys trying to act like blacks? I’m seeing so many white women with black guys, and the black guy isn’t one that anyone to be proud to be with.

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Landon410
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:30am
well that company didn’t make those jeans, government did, and the store owner doesn’t really run his store, so i don’t see anything wrong here.

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Grandpa Dave
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:25am
WAKE UP PEOPLE… The Nanny State is here. Stop complaining and join in. After all everything in life is free. The evil ones… Wall Street bankers, CEOs, evil doctors, etc., etc. will take care of you. Not to Worry. If you can’t beat them, then join them. — Grandpa, my tongue is stuck in my cheek. Who the hell is “Them”? We found the enemy and it is us.

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Sharon Rose
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:20am
Did those kids look like “his”?

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1HonestInjun
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:19am
In a study Chicago was determined to be the most corrupt city in America. Starting in 1960 where
votes were held until the outstate votes were counted and than Chicago made sure there was enought votes to elect Kennedy president. Don’t forget the convention and the Chicago 7 too.
Police brutality, bogus contracts, bribes, theft, and ghost payroll are all crimes that have been found in Chicago. Since 1970 31 city council members were convicted. Tony Rezke (Obama’s land partner was sent to prison) Then there is Dan Roskenkowski for mail fraud. One wonders what Chicago values Rahm Emanuel was talking about.

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RamonPreston
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:17am
Dr. James Manning has a video on Youtube stating “Blacks have no honor.” Really???

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oldsoldier10
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:15am
40 bla@cks and vanilla ice, yea it’s a teen mob NOT, Rhambo is the weakest link! If McO’Bama had a mob they would look like this!

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The Gooch
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:13am
Come on, folks. This is just another version of stimulus, correct? This video will play on the news (and my new favorite garbage TV Channel, TruTV), it will allow politicians to pontificate on how this is really the fault of rich peole…. and, really, Cho didn’t make those jeans anyway. And there might be a case of discrimination here… Cho did lock the doors.

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BillnGA
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:07am
When people have no way to protect themselves…..anarchy!! Arm the lawful people and store owners , this crime will slow rapidly!!!

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jfh67
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:05am
Exactly why Chicago was the only major city to report a declining population in 2011 and now is the lowest it’s been since 1910. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out why after looking at this video. Smart people leaving, criminals and drugs thriving.

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jfh67
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:00am
I’m trying to figure out how he lost so many pairs of Jeans. By his own admission, he locked the door once he saw how many came in “procession.” Every turd in the video should be be charged with the total loss value of $3000 or grand larceny, a felony. DA has an obligation to make it stick and send a message to these losers. They obviously have no business voting or owning weapons so lets do the right thing and restrict their rights.

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jackact
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:59am
Wow, what is the world coming too?
A black-on-white crime has finally been reported.
:(

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KarinS
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:53am
Rahm,like Obama, really could care less as long as HIS check is in the mail.Despicable,disgusting.

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Zod Cranards
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:40am
Solution: Send the punks to Africa where they will feel more at home.

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- Shamrock241
  Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:34am
  @ Zod Sadly not enough people willing to get onboard with that program. We all know of a few Black people who actually go to work and obey the laws of the land, but the numbers are so lopsided it is clear what you said has to happen to get this country back to a better place. The white guilt shared by most will not approve so the fash mobs will continue as will the violent rapes murders .
  
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LadyLibertykicksASS
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:36am
Hey Rahm, Congratulations on all those “Wonderful Chicago Values”. !!!!!!!!

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gosutag
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:34am
If the owners of the stores that this mob thieving occurs at had guns then you’d just have a bunch of dead bodies on the floor. I’d much prefer dead idiots.

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:14am
The precise application of supersonic lead may help prevent recurrences of such events.

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Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:02am
I’ve been all over the world during my 21-year Air Force career, but I’ve never been to Chicago… and it’s gonna stay that way.

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curmudgeon60
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 6:55am
THEY”RE ENTITLED!! Just Like Michelle and her expensive dresses (she looks better in red) — this Administration is PUSHING “Entitlements” in every way, shape, and form. And to Rahm-who comes across the border to my neighborhoods in Michigan on the weekends–bike a little farther to Benton Harbor and you’ll see the same “values” They Have no values because they have no parents–Their “mothers” were entitiled to free money when they gave birth to illegitimates!!!!!!

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flsnipe
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 6:51am
A belt fed wepon would take care of the thieves!

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Stephen Markovich
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 6:47am
Lol…the only cures r to 1. Allow concealed carry laws but liberals prefer crime. 2. Let the city deteriorate into what it is destined to become by democrats’ hands…police state with lower class populations predominate and good people leave. Baltimore is the exact same. Let Chicago fall into the toilet

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RightUnite
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:06am
Surprise! Surprise! Anyone?? Not me!!!

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- Stu D. Baker-Hawk
  Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:04am
  No surprise from me either. (And American Blacks complian that White America holds them in such contempt… really? Jeez.)
  
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Smoke Ranch
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:39am
I wonder if these are true Chicago values, or does Louis Farrakhan now endorse gay marriage. Chicago has got to be a horrorable place to live with ugly people like this.

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dacorvi
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:30am
This is what happens in liberal states, liberal cities. Chicago has been run by democrats forever. Fishhead Emanuel is just another in a long line of corrupt democrats (Those two words are interchangeable). Everywhere you look in the US if democrats are in charge, this is happening. That is what their policies, philosophies, and beliefs result in.

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stupid_news
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:04am
so i guess the news and “the blaze” is saying “flash” mob when its a “black” mob…
because if you read other news reports and the blaze.. they never mention “black” teens.

i thought the truth had no agenda ?? glad there is video proof / truth

are these new terms?.. flash history month, flash on flash crime ?

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