If you're going to dismember someone, do it around Halloween.

Quasi-gory entry today, but interesting nonetheless.

While Kenny was in for the weekend, we happened to hear a story on the tube (being sick, I watched a LOT of the tube) about these two feet that were found in the middle of an intersection the day before (Friday I think). So someone FOUND these FEET just sitting in the middle of an intersection (some street and Vollmer Road if you know the area). The initial report is that the feet were separated above the ankle. No body.

Several people passed the feet laying in the middle of an intersection, but none of them did anything about the feet. They didn't called the police. They didn't dial 911.

Now Ken is from Jersey so we immediately thought and said, someone is sending a message. Don't know if it's a gang or what, but someone is sending a message.

Well the story continued to unfold.

About 12 miles away, a footless body sat under some brush. Several people passed by the body....and did nothing. They called no one.

Why the inaction from what should normally be an involved public on the far south side of Chicago (technically a suburb actually)? Well, several people who drove by the feet and footless body thought they were just Halloween gimmicks!

OK, but what happened? What is it indeed a gang message? Well, the victim turns out to be a guy who constantly walked around the neighborhood and was actually nicknamed "Walking Mike". Apparently, he would walk down Vollmer Road to a gas station almost every day and then would often just walk back and forth on his street for really no reason other than to walk.

Allegedly, some kid in his early 20's hit Walking Mike with a car. He hit Mike so hard that now footless Mike shot over the hood, through the windshield and into the car. Scared out of his mind, the young driver took off looking for assistance from his apparently less than helpful girlfriend as the best idea they could come up with was to partially hide the body along ANOTHER road under some brush.

As the story developed, it turns out the legs were actually severed beneath the knee. Now how do you confuse, as a reporter, severed above the ankle and severed below the knee? That has to be a two foot difference at least.....................get it? Two foot difference? Groan.