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Naked in Chicago
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 16, 2006 10:28 AM
Cops: Naked passenger puts up L of a battle
(The following article by Steve Patterson was posted on the Chicago Sun-Times website on January 16.)

CHICAGO -- A naked 18-year-old man broke out a CTA train window on the North Side on Sunday morning, struck Chicago Police officers and led cops on a brief foot chase before he was arrested, police said.

Victor Thornton became agitated while on the Red Line train around 9 a.m., police said.

The train was stopped in the 4600 block of Broadway when he began causing a disturbance.

Three CTA security guards tried to stop him, but he beat them back and began stripping off his clothes and pounding on the train walls.

Police arrived, and Thornton lunged at them, cursing, before he punched out the train window, authorities said. That's when they used pepper spray, to no avail.

Officers said they tried arresting him, but he kicked them and swung his arms, hitting them, until a sergeant jolted him with a Taser. That also had no effect on the Chicago man, police said.

Thornton then ran out of the rear of the train, and officers gave chase. He fought them but was finally arrested in the 4500 block of North Kenmore, police said.

Two officers suffered minor injuries; no passengers were hurt.

Thornton, of the 1500 block of North Touhy, was hit with seven criminal charges -- three counts of battery, two counts of felony aggravated battery to an officer and one count each of criminal damage to property and resisting arrest.


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Posted by jeaton on Monday, January 16, 2006 10:30 AM
WHAT??? No charges for grossing out the general public?[(-D][(-D]

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Posted by blhanel on Monday, January 16, 2006 10:31 AM
Must be the full moon (see Chad's thread re the trolley line in San Diego).

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Posted by Nora on Monday, January 16, 2006 11:09 AM
Awww. I'm going to Chicago this weekend and I missed THAT?
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Posted by ndbprr on Monday, January 16, 2006 12:19 PM
What do you expect when the Bears got blown away in a way none of us fans could foresee?
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Posted by eolafan on Monday, January 16, 2006 12:43 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora

Awww. I'm going to Chicago this weekend and I missed THAT?


Nora, I live here in the Chicago area and from what we are hearing locally, IT was a really LITTLE issue, VERY LITTLE!
How's that for sneaking in a "blue" subject?
Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim)
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Posted by TomDiehl on Monday, January 16, 2006 12:49 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan

QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora

Awww. I'm going to Chicago this weekend and I missed THAT?


Nora, I live here in the Chicago area and from what we are hearing locally, IT was a really LITTLE issue, VERY LITTLE!
How's that for sneaking in a "blue" subject?


Well, if it's cold out there in Chicago.............. [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 16, 2006 1:44 PM
That didn't even make the Chicago News at all!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by tree68 on Monday, January 16, 2006 1:55 PM
Like they could show the video.....[;)]

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Posted by samfp1943 on Monday, January 16, 2006 2:14 PM
Sounds as if Victor Thornton's recreational drugs backed up on him. Another disappointed Bears fan[censored][censored][banghead][banghead]

 

 


 

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Monday, January 16, 2006 9:54 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan

QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora

Awww. I'm going to Chicago this weekend and I missed THAT?


Nora, I live here in the Chicago area and from what we are hearing locally, IT was a really LITTLE issue, VERY LITTLE!
How's that for sneaking in a "blue" subject?


Hey, NWS says it was 31 at O'Hare at the time of the incident. I am sure little and blue are very descriptive.
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Posted by greyhounds on Monday, January 16, 2006 10:09 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by ndbprr

What do you expect when the Bears got blown away in a way none of us fans could foresee?


Well, some of use foresaw it.

They were over rated. Now those White Sox, they did it.
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Posted by Chris30 on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:46 AM
Pepper spray didn't work... The taser didn't have much effect... Sounds like this guy could have stepped on the third rail and started laughing. And the foot chase - the cop who runs the fastest gets to tackle the naked guy - oh! leg cramp!

In hindsight the CPD should have called the nearby Lincoln Park Zoo for assistance. I think the elephant tranquilizer gun would have slowed him down a little.

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Posted by eolafan on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:04 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by ChuckCobleigh

QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan

QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora

Awww. I'm going to Chicago this weekend and I missed THAT?


Nora, I live here in the Chicago area and from what we are hearing locally, IT was a really LITTLE issue, VERY LITTLE!
How's that for sneaking in a "blue" subject?


Hey, NWS says it was 31 at O'Hare at the time of the incident. I am sure little and blue are very descriptive.


[:0] Naked and 31F at the time...I would venture a guess that nobody could even see the issue at all...it would have dissapeared into a warmer climate....HA, HA, HA.
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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:04 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChuckCobleigh

QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan

QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora

Awww. I'm going to Chicago this weekend and I missed THAT?


Nora, I live here in the Chicago area and from what we are hearing locally, IT was a really LITTLE issue, VERY LITTLE!
How's that for sneaking in a "blue" subject?


Hey, NWS says it was 31 at O'Hare at the time of the incident. I am sure little and blue are very descriptive.


[:0] Naked and 31F at the time...I would venture a guess that nobody could even see the issue at all...it would have dissapeared into a warmer climate....HA, HA, HA.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:10 PM
non-news, chicago's always that crazy. drugged up fools always do weird things like that.
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:23 PM
Naked at 31F. If he had stepped on the 3rd rail,that would have warmed "things" up real quick[:0] !
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Posted by PBenham on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:17 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by ndbprr

What do you expect when the Bears got blown away in a way none of us fans could foresee?
Well[#offtopic]What do ya expect when ya start a QB with so few starts! That idiot running in his birthday suit isn't much dumber than the Bears coaching staff. But,hey, the Bears HAVE won a Super Bowl. Some thing the [*^_^*][banghead][censored]Bills weren't able to do with a Hall of famer at QB! BTW, Thanks, New England Patriots, for showing us you were human. Now, how do we explain that dope, any how? I wonder how many [xx(]Old Styles[xx(] he had (illegally) before he went out on his streak!(ouch! I am showing my age, here)
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Posted by Randy Stahl on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:45 PM
I'm waiting for the news that the man is actually a CTA supervisor.
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Posted by ndbprr on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:12 PM
Well I've changed my mind. Since other posts say this happened at or on the way to O'Hare it was probably a Panther fan on his way home.
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Posted by oskar on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:15 PM
he was doing is impression of a NS primer when it turns into an angry human [ ;)] .




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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:24 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

WHAT??? No charges for grossing out the general public?[(-D][(-D]

I here you on that.
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