Saturday, September 27, 2008

Love Is In The Air

Love is in the air near Montrose and Sheridan. A reader just emailed us this photo they took while waiting for the 151 Sheridan bus, just north of Jake's Chicken. These two folks chose to proclaim their love and affection on the sidewalk just outside the bus stop. The reader commented that just before this picture was taken, the gentleman's hand was in the woman's nether-regions. All this took place within easy view of all passersby, including children. Many passersby were heard to say, "Get a room." We couldn't agree more. 911 was called by the photographer.

36 comments:

  1. I know I like to lay down on the ground next to a bus shelter when I make-out with my girlfriend! You gotta spice things up sometimes!

    (Actually that's really disgusting.)

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  2. "Look at the butt on that one...yeah he must work out"

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  3. This is just gross.....gross on all levels.
    The 'characters' in this pavement play are obviously demented or hyped-up on drugs.

    As I usually say to these people that approach me for money.....'ask your alderman for help'

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  4. The "lady in blue" is a non-stop party gal. She spends most of her day in a state of intoxication and drifts with her drinking buddies from Azusa liquors, to Sheridan Park liquors to JJ Peppers.

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  5. They are both disgusting, worthless, junkies. I have witnessed the man, along with several of his swollen, festering buddies harass pedestrians near Jewel. He is a prime example of the deleterious byproducts of some of the programs in Uptown. Although they provide help to some who truly need and deserve it, they also aid and attract vermin like this.

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  6. I'm not saying that type of display is appropriate on public streets but no one seems to complain when this, and far worse occurs before, during and after the pride parade.

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  7. I would be equally distrubed if it were two swollen, needle scarred male junkies rolling around on a public sidewalk on the Pride day. Do not turn this into a gay issue, or a racial issue, or a class issue. These two human blisters in this pic are vile cretins.

    Just think, between the two of these animals you probably have $2000 monthly of tax payer disability money rolling in their own filth. Too bad a city street cleaner could not come by and whisk them up like empty garage bags.

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  8. Please don't pull the gay card. I simply meant to point out the hypocritical nature of this story. Let me reiterate I don't agree with this behavior but criticism is a two way street.

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  9. There's nothing hypocritical here. There's at least one arrest every day at the Magic Hedge, just a few blocks east, for public indecency between males.

    Folks are funny that way. Most people don't want to see public fornication in the middle of the day when they're walking with their kids, no matter whose Tab A is making contact with whose Slot B.

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  10. Last night, I was walking with my man, felt like putting my hand in his back pocket and kissed him spontaneously. Thank God I was on Lincoln Avenue. . .but then again maybe I should check to see if I was photographed and put on a Lincoln Square blog!

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  11. Well, Whirlofagirl, if you were lying on the sidewalk next to a bus stop at 3 p.m. and he was fingering between your legs, you should have been put on a blog... and a police report.

    Fucking in public -- a no-no. Walking down the street in an embrace -- okay. Why is this a difficult concept?

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  12. There is obviously a major difference between kissing your boyfriend as you walk down the street and rolling around on the ground like a sunburned, heroin swollen, festering, beligerant animal. Thank you UU for posting pics like this and exposing some of the disgusting problems on our streets. Maybe now people will recognize this cockroach and keep a safe distance.

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  13. Gay card? Is that like a multicolored Visa or something?

    That kind of argument is stupid.

    That activity is wrong at the Pride Parade and it's wrong at a bus stop. If I rob a bank and I get away with it does that give someone else who gets caught the right to complain? Damn police caught me, but not thee.

    Comparing those two to a couple walking down the street who give each other a kiss is silly silly silly.

    It's like the folks here who defend public whizzing by saying it happens near Wrigley all the time. So what? The cops issue tickets there. The activity is wrong no matter where it happens.

    There shouldn't be different standards of behavior depending on the neighborhood. If it's wrong in Lincoln Park then it's wrong in Uptown or Engelwood or Wilmette.

    Now if you excuse me I'm going to find some hooker to make out with on Montrose and then take a leak on the wrought iron fence bordering the Jewel. Right now. In broad daylight. Cause that's the kinda sweet guy I am. You know what I've changed my mind. I've decided I'm going to prop up my "girlfriend" against some random car and rut like two wild moose(mooses?)(moosi). Yea, I'll wait till some schoolkids are walking by. Because I believe in total freedom without decency or responsibility.

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  14. Yeah but I don't see people pissing and moaning about it on Uptown Update. How many times do I have to say this, I don't agree with this behavior whether its gay, straight, black or white. I simply meant to point out the hypocrisy of this story. Do people read the posts or do they just like to argue? Sometimes the truth hurts.

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  15. ihatemondays, are you arguing that every time you report about bad behavior in one context, you have a duty to list every other possible context in which it would also be wrong?

    That's seriously weak.

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  16. I don't see "hypocrisy"... having been around gay pride parades for the last 20 years I can tell you more than one person has complained about the parade participants as "perverse" "depravrd" "disgusting" etc.

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  17. I UUers aren't hypocrits why were'nt any pictures of parade participants debauchery posted? I searched the archives and didn't find any. If someone else can find them please let me know. Please SPR don't let the hamster run to fast. I didn't say anyone has any kind of "duty." I drew a simple comparison. I clearly said no one posted pictures or stories of this type of behavior that occurs during the parade.

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  18. And it's only once a year.

    ihatemondays is clearly grasping at straws trying to find something to criticize.

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  19. I bet IHATEMONDAYS hates every day of the week, not just Mondays. Talk about a Debbie Downer.

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  20. ihatemondays worte, "Yeah but I don't see people pissing and moaning about it on Uptown Update. How many times do I have to say this, I don't agree with this behavior whether its gay, straight, black or white. I simply meant to point out the hypocrisy of this story."

    To reinforce what sunnyside wrote, people don't piss and moan on UU about the behavior at the Pride Parade because the Parade is in LAKEVIEW, not Uptown.

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  21. Have you been out in Uptown after the parade? It is filled with LGBT's who are out of control drunk engaging in sexually explicit acts. I guess it's OK because it is only one day a year.

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  22. ihatemondays, are you really trying to equate problem that comes up ONCE A YEAR with a chronic problem that affects our neighborhood EVERY DAY?

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  23. Are the acts not the same? By your logic it's OK if someone prostitutes one day a year but against the law if its more.

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  24. You obviously fail to comprehend the concepts of magnitude and scale. This has nothing to do with whether one is OK and the other not. Of course both are problems. But the problems associated with homeless vagrancy affect Uptown with a frequency 365 times greater than the gay pride parade.

    Can you understand why an everyday problem might get more attention than a once-a-year problem? Of course you can.

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  25. Regardless of the magnitude it's still hypocritical, is it not? That's the point, not the magnitude and scale of the homeless vagrancy in uptown, god knows its through the roof. Posting a picture and writing a story of two people engaging in sexual activity on the street and not doing the same for a different group of people engaging in the same activities is hypocritical.

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  26. OK, I'm done trying to reasonably discuss this with you.

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  27. IHateMondays hates logic and facts.

    Now I've seen the drunks post pride parade all over Uptown. I even fondly recall the distant past when ,"Paris Dance", the city's premier lesbian bar was at 1100 Montrose. My first high school girlfriend walked by me on Kenmore one year heading that way. I kid you not. As one of my friends told me I was a "LCS": Lesbian Conversion Specialist. It must have been a phase though as she later got married and had a munchkin.

    I don't recall ever seeing any overt sex acts in the streets; although, I'm sure it happens.

    I can recall a group of trannies battling in the Jewel parking lot, but no sex. More than likely it goes on over by Montrose Beach where the various groups seem to hang out post parade.

    That being said your logic still stinks more than Sarah Palin claiming she has an Israeli flag in her gubernatorial office.

    I think I'm going to start carrying my camera around and taking a few snaps. I shall dedicate my work to IHateMondays because I hate stupidity.

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  28. ihatemondays, you have the dubious distinction of being understood by me. I get what you're saying. Some people here need a whipping post to unleash on.

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  29. WhirlofaGirl mentioned whips.

    OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO La LA.

    "Orange whip. Orange whip. Three orange whips".

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  30. I actually forgot to mention...for UU to be exercising "hypocrisy", UU would have to be engaging in the behaviour UU was criticizing. So then ihatemondays, please submit your pics of UU and their publicly lewd behaviour.

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  31. Wow, I'm suprised no one started calling me a Shiller troll. I have to give you guys a bit more credit, or a bit more time.

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  32. hypocrisy

    NOUN:
    pl. hypocrisies
    The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
    An act or instance of such falseness.

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  33. Thanks for printing the definition...now you can see you were using the word improperly. You could have, arguably, claimed UU was using a double standard (though I would even disagree with that) but you certainly presented no evidence that UU didn't hold the beliefs professed.

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