Assault and baggery
Four more days till Doomsday I, including today. And this is the day the Illinois House is scheduled to meet and consider SB 572 -- the quarter of a percent sales tax increase. That's 25 cents on $100. Check back here later today for the Yahoo news feed on the status of that vote.
In the meantime, here's a Tattler tale -- just like I used to write about before it was all Doomsday, all the time.
A guy in his late 30s boards the Red Line at Grand. On his back he wields a lethal weapon -- a backpack that juts out from his body two feet that must contain 50-pound sandbags.
He assaults two people with it as he boards the car -- including a professorial-looking guy with a University of Chicago lanyard who is himself wielding a nasty-looking cane with a nifty brass handle. The guy is fuming as he gets hit, banging his cane three times on the floor and muttering vengeful thoughts.
Fortunately, backpack man moves down the aisle and avoids a confrontation. But of course he hits two more people who are trying to exit.
A seat opens on the aisle and backpack man settles into it. But of course he flings the pack into his seatmate's personal space, narrowly missing her left foot as she desperately yanks it out of the way.
To all backpack-wearers, we've been through this before -- please be more cognizant of your surroundings and treat fellow riders politely.
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