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Lyons Village President David Visk.
Two Lyons village officials accidentally recorded a racially and sexually inappropriate conversation that they had in a police car last summer. Village President David Visk and Trustee Richard Schuppe activated a recording device in the squad car while he was driving it to the Fourth of July parade. Their excuse for the inappropriate conversation? Visk said, "If we had known we are going to be recorded, we wouldn't talk like that." Hmm... where have we heard that before? Oh yeah.
On the tape, Visk said that he enjoyed the parade route because it allowed him to look up girls' skirts as they sat on the curb, and the two of them discussed running down U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinksi (D-Ill.) with the police car.
Schuppe is heard using the "n-word" to describe a man who delivered a refrigerator to his home. Commenting on the price of the refrigerator, Visk told Schuppe that the worker should have thrown in a free watermelon, though Visk said the comment was not racially motivated."Knowing Mr. Schuppe as many years as I have, he happens to be fond of that particular fruit," Visk said Wednesday.
Lyons Village Trustee Richard Schuppe.
The recording was just released, conveniently timed with the village president election in a few days. Visk faces two challengers, and the other candidates have denied involvement in the tape's release, despite the offender's accusations otherwise. Schuppe is in the middle of a four-year term, so his post is not threatened by the upcoming election.
Fox News Chicago has the video.
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I just had an awful day. Work has been an escalating scream since monday and my bank just told me they put a freeze on my card and have to issue me a new one because of a suspicious charge.
Reading the about these stooges gave me my first real laugh of the day. Thank you Chicagoistians.
Off topic, but my bank did that to me and I found out while trying to pay for $120 worth of groceries at Trader Joe's.
I was running late and had to take the time out to call the frikking bank, I finally get a live person to talk to and they put the hold on it because of a "flurry of activity".
It was TWO WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. And it wasn't like the flurry of activity had several charges of thousands of dollars for one item or something insane like that.
While I appreciate the banks having my back (and that makes me laugh), but this flurry of activity wasn't really anything out of the ordinary. I was infuriated.
But, the banks and the credit card companies...they have us over a barrel.
And I heard this story on the news while half asleep and I couldn't believe my ears.
I thought I had misunderstood. Guess not.
Yeah, it was an odd one dollar charge from the NYTimes. Apparently it's used as means of testing card numbers. If they work, the scammers start nailing you with bigger charges.
Still, between this and hearing the Blagojevich got indicted while at disneyland, I'm enjoying some shameful joy.
Visk told Schuppe that the worker should have thrown in a free watermelon, though Visk said the comment was not racially motivated.
"Knowing Mr. Schuppe as many years as I have, he happens to be fond of that particular fruit," Visk said Wednesday.
The Republican mayor out in California who forwarded those jpegs of The White House with rows of watermelons in front said the same thing...
I've now read this story about 10 times. My sides are aching.
"If we had known we are going to be recorded, we wouldn't talk like that."
I love this. If that's isn't a "sorry I got caught" quote, I don't know what is.
I also happen to be fond of that particular fruit (awesome quote), but I also happen to know that it comes with racial connotations. And really, these two clowns gave the weakest apology of all time. Like not-another-username says, it's not even an apology. It's a sorry I got caught quote.
Considering the people I've known from Lyons this is not suprising in any way.
Check out these two stooges on you tube
see the complete videos of these dynamic duos at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyw5nTwJXc0