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Thousands Flee Hyde Park, Buy Guns
By Gerard Oh | Dealer staff writer    Wed, Feb 1, 2006
 

HYDE PARK - On the heels of the fourth high-profile crime in this affluent east side neighborhood since the beginning of the year, residents are jumpy.

"That's it.  I'm outta here," said former Madison Rd. resident Tim Kweller as he pushed his Herman Miller replica office chair down the sidewalk.  "I'm moving to somewhere safer, where you don't have to worry about being shot at in your favorite Irish sports bar featuring over 30 beers on tap."

Other residents are taking an opposite stance.

"BRING IT ON!!" yelled Bill Hurley, as he wheeled a mounted Gatling gun into his home.  Hurley would not answer any more questions, claiming he was too busy digging holes for the pungee sticks.

Office worker Christy Osborne may have summed it up the best: "So what are you going to do, sit in your house all night and don't come out? Or are you going to start packing heat?"

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