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Toddler swept away by Chicago wind

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

They don’t call it the Windy City for nothin’, a Serbian Grandfather found out — the hard way.

A two year old boy was swept into chilly Lake Michigan during a storm surge. It was 15 minutes before he was found. The baby is now in critical condition. Not sure if a baby can survive full submersion for that long.

As he clung to the pier at Belmont Harbor, moaning and crying, all the man could do was point down into the dark water.

“Boy!” he said. “Boy! Boy!”
The boy, the man’s 2-year-old grandson, was 10 feet below the water’s surface at the bottom of the harbor, still strapped into his stroller, which had apparently been swept off the breakwater by a strong gust of wind.

“The lower half of his body was in the water,” said witness John Derscheid, who called 911. “I ran over there and he was looking around in the water. He had his head dunked in the water. . . . I said ‘there’s a ladder down here.’ “

Another girl fight caught on camera

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Just another girl beatdown in a long string of girl beatdowns…

CLARKSVILLE, Indiana — A group of middle school girls videotaped the beating of a 12-year-old schoolmate and posted it on the Internet in an attack that authorities believe was inspired by a similar one in Florida, police said.

No charges have been filed and police said they have not yet interviewed all the girls, ages 12-14, who are students at Clarksville Middle School in Indiana. The girls’ identities were not released because they are juveniles.

The victim, who was treated for cuts and bruises at a hospital, was the daughter of a police officer, said Police Chief Dwight Ingle.