Hey, you guys, remember when I wrote about Dolton, Illinois, in the good old days and my relative the news man who reported on crazy police car chases after bad guys that wrecked lots of police cars and ended up in spectacular crashes? And you all said, oh, will you just get out of here with that, cops don't do stuff like that!
Well, they sure used to, and here's a news story from 1973 to prove it. I was nosing around in a storage shed and this time didn't disturb a shoe effer but did find some old news clippings, one of which was -- ta da! -- this one:
Popeye Doyle and Bullitt didn't have nothin' on these suburban cops back in the day. I can imagine that they were all Viet Nam vets.
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| Love the early 1970s hairstyle and 'stash! |
To the left is the type of cop who was chasing the bad guys. This officer is from Calumet City, which I learned from reading some other clippings was a hotbed of cigarette smuggling from Indiana. And below is another cop from that time and place. The hair and mustaches, to say nothing of the snazzy -- boss, groovy, spiffy, hep...I don't know... -- uniforms place them firmly in the long ago. One thing I know is that these gentlemen would not let a crook get away. He was grass and they were the lawn mower.
Oh, and here's the original photo of the one in the news story:
And here's why the cops are standing on the roof -- the thieves chopped a hole in it to get in:
