The Untold Story

The media reports half the facts and thinks they are doing a great job. Here's some disparate pieces of what should have been a much bigger story:

• A boy is dead and four other people -- including two other boys -- remain hospitalized after a Jeep and a van fleeing an armed robbery collided early Friday in the Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
  
  A Jeep Cherokee and van collided about 3:30 a.m. at South California Avenue and West Jackson Boulevard -- causing the Jeep to flip and burst into flames, police said.
  
  A boy inside the Jeep was killed and four others from the Jeep were injured and remain hospitalized, including two in critical condition, police said.

So the dead kid turns out to be 13. Out at 3:30? Our radar is beeping that something isn't right here. We read further:

• Two boys -- 13 and 14 -- who were inside the Jeep remained hospitalized as of 10 a.m. with non-life-threatening injuries at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to police...
  

Now we have three teens out at 3:30. Something isn't right. They're all around the same age. We check with another news source:

• Two others, both 15-year-old boys, were at Stroger Hospital this afternoon, where one of them was in critical condition while the other was in serious condition, according to a hospital spokesman.

So, 15, 15, 14, 13, 13. Where's the adult? Or adults? We make one single phone call:

• The SUV turns out to have been stolen

Well that explains why the radar was going off like crazy. They're car thieves. And unfortunately, they were in exactly the right place at the right time to get broadsided by a pair of robbers fleeing the scene of a crime. Let's see the media report that part.

Already, the lib-tards are in the comment sections of the media reports saying, "You can't blame the parents - we all used to sneak out of the house when mom and dad weren't looking." Maybe so. But we don't recall going around boosting cars and flying around the hood. The ability to justify any behavior perpetrated by criminals regardless of age, is astounding of late. The death of personal responsibility continues.