Bullets on a school bus. Love dolls at the mall. $200 bus rides. And stolen rent checks. If you missed a day on Patch, you missed a lot. Let's catch you up.
Every Monday, Good Read keeps you in the know with the Southland’s must-read stories and then some. Bullet Points: I'm imagining a second-grader belting out Lynyrd Skynyrd's classic Gimme Back My Bullets following the discovery of a .44-caliber bullet on the bus ride to school in Tinley Park last week. In tracking down the bullet-toting student, school officials decided to go to the onboard surveillance tape, only to find it missing. Although the second-grader and fifth-grader who found the bullet Tuesday afternoon as the bus was pulling out of Tinley Park's Fulton School turned it over to the bus driver, the bus company didn't notify the district for nearly 24 hours. By then, the district had already heard about it from the children's …
John Stone, who was recently hired at Chevrolet of Homewood after being fired for wearing a Packers necktie, appreciates the support and contemplates legal action against his old employer.
John Stone was recently fired from Webb Chevrolet in Oak Lawn for wearing a Green Bay Packers necktie. The next day, Chevrolet of Homewood offered him a job while he was doing an on-air television interview. After four days and a frenzy of media activity, the South Sider from the Roseland community has resumed his life as a car salesman. Today was his first day back on the sales floor. John says he is planning to take legal action against Webb Chevrolet. He is not eager to go through the process, saying that it will, “open old wounds,” however he is commited to following through with it. But for right now, John is happy to get back to selling cars. He wants to open his own dealership someday. What does it feel like to be part of a national…
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Albert in a can
4:37 pm on Thursday, January 27, 2011
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