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Body Parts Found on Pratt Avenue

17-yr old victim?
Is this an omen? It probably means nothing, but it's a weird coincidence.

This morning I walked past the blood of a dead gangster in the middle of the 1300 block of Pratt Avenue in Rogers Park to get a better look at the area in day light. Nothing new, except...

Directly across the street were body parts. Wings. Cicada wings. Rogers Park has had no cicadas coming out of the ground yet, as far as I know of. Yet there were the wings, the remains of a 17-year cicada on the sidewalk. It is unknown what the connection is between the dead gangster and the mangled bug.

Cicada image by by Marc Pascual from Pixabay.
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7 comments:

  1. Catherine on Eastlake6/21/2007 07:23:00 AM

    i think we should erect a 'shrine' for the poor dead cicada.

    another victim of Cruel Mother Nature.

    alas.. he had choices.

    he could have pupated in Hinsdale.

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  2. Anonymous6/21/2007 06:50:00 PM

    FUCK WHOEVA GOT SOME'N 2 SAY ABOUT MY NIGGA TURTLE CUZ FOLKS WAS A REAL NIGGA. AND THA MUFUCKIN POLICE KNO' DAMN WELL HE WAS FROM THA POLE ANYWAYS BITCH, AND THEY SHOT HIM CUZ THEY DIDN'T LIKE HIM WHATTUP. R.I.P TO MY NIGGA ANTHONY MORGAN A.K.A TURTLE! LIL BITCH. AND DIS WAS WRITTEN JUNE 21st. MEANIN' 2DAY IZ BOO BEE's BIRTHDAY AWH YEAH, R.I.P BOO BEE, R.I.P AL MAC, GD GEORGE, SWIFT, SCOOTER, TELLY, WINNFIELD, BIG TONE, RODNEY, ROSEBUD, P-DUB,
    K-OS, GERRICK. AND ALL THA MUFUCKIN GANGSTAS FROM THA POLE I FORGOT ABOUT

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  3. CNB6/22/2007 10:28:00 AM

    DEAR ANONYMOUS MUFUCKER:
    THANKS FO DA THOUGHTFO COMMENT, DOG, WHATTUP. HAPPY BIRFDAY TA BOO BEE AWH YEAH. BIG PROPS TA ALL DA MUFUCKIN GANGSTAS FROM THA POLE. HAB A NICE DAY, YO.

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  4. ChitownRog6/22/2007 01:01:00 PM

    I was curious about "THA POLE" and looked it up..

    Here's an interesting perspective of our neighborhood.

    http://chibangin.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=3273&st=0

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  5. CNB6/22/2007 04:36:00 PM

    Actually, Chitownrog, I think that in the context of Mr. Anonymous's comment, "tha Pole" is a reference to Chicago's north side, as in "north pole."

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  6. ChitownRog6/23/2007 10:01:00 AM

    Thanks Capitan Obvious... Did you even look at the link in my comment?

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  7. CNB6/24/2007 04:49:00 PM

    Dear chitownrog:
    Yes, I did look at the link you sent me. It offered a bunch of different referrences, none of them definitive. Sometimes, rog, the "obvious" is desirable when seeking a definition of a slang term. There are many possible definitions for "pole," and the one I gave is the "obvious" one. Thank you for the link. Thank ME for the correct definition for the context in question.

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Thanks for commenting! Keep it classy.

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