Eye On McTaverns

After waking up twice in the past 2 years to dead bodies on my garage apron, and putting up with thier gangbanging nonsense, I have decided to start a thread about the nonstop nonsense that goes on there, on a daily basis. I'll begin approx. 2 weekends ago, when I was woke up to 4 shots being fired. I later learned that there was a fight in which someone was srabbed and shots were fired. Last Tues. around 2:30am my wife was woke up by loud screaming and cussing, to another fight in the parking lot. I don't know if they got a heads up but the fight broke up quickly and everyone rushed back inside. Thursday night about 3:30am yet another fight happened in the parking lot, which is kind of interesting since thier license runs till 3am. Last night from around 11 until closing I noticed police activity all night, I don't know if they were state, Federal or local, but they were there all night long in the parking lots. These assholes need to go like the sign on the therapy marqee says' "What goes around comes around"

Man, that's some serious stuff.

I thought they were to get their license pulled? Or did that get postponed?

I think an ordinance should pass that if a certain amount of police calls are made within a certain period of time, the liquor commisioner should have the right to yank the license.

Don't they have that on the books? Cal City does, and as Mayor, and Liquor Commissioner, she did it.

I wouldn't want to live by them!

I believe that McTaverns warrents some heavy duty press coverage and the Times could probably help with resolving the ongoing problem if they didn't use so much ink covering the mailman and his pot plants. Why the Times doesn't blast McTaverns is beyond me. Maybe they are too fascinated in Mr. Woerpel to see that the real criminal activity is on Indy Blvd at McTaverns.

Well FT doesnt do freelance reporting on McTaverns. She only reports on her conspiracy theories regarding Hammond. The mayor should come out in support of mctaverns and then shell attack it. If she attacks it enough the times will write a story about it using her information and a lazy reporters name. This way, FT keeps he SSI and the times have articles to write.

She's been congratulated for pursuing this for over two years. Make it five. It's a slow crawl with NWITimes.com.

It took them this long to listen to her? What's really funny is while she scheduled a ride two years ago, she said we couldn't leave cuz Keisling was suppose to return her call.

What's even funnier, though all things may come out they way they are, the bottom line is, no one cared to talk to her or investigate until the Times subscribers plummeted.

They're hard up for news, so hard up, that FT is their only outside non-paid contractor with no crime, or gangbangers on her list,engag agenda, nothing but McDermott, McDermott and McDermott.



I noticed, as usual, when she takes a break (a long break) from posting her rants, a story breaks out in her favor. Pretty good reporting and investigative reporting relying on a person that so caims she can't work as a reporter, reveals she made it to Crown Point, and did everything she told Social Security she "couldn't do".

There will come a time when she'll need legal aid. There will come a time where she'll have to rely on subsidized housing where cats are not allowed, nor smoking, and she'll have to pay out of her pocket to clean up the mess an Adult-sized diaper can't hold. Not including what spews out of the mouth at the same time.

She will actually get no care regarding her diabetes, her four time operations on her clogged legs, and will have to resort to eating her own words. She'll actually have to beg for food outside Hammond's Community Service. Would I wish that on anyone? No. But she wishes it on a long list of other people.

"Thanks, JEFF" she said. Yep, Thanks for finally listening after four or five years to a looney tune. What's her pay? Or, is it part of her name, FREE? Why should the festival bother her if she walked there, didn't have to pay? Free. She can't do that, so no one else should.

Have you two bothered looking into other towns/cities struggling with money woes, but still managed to offer some fun to their citizens?

Apparently not. I'm sure you'd find they dug in the taxpayers' money cuz they deserve something fun outside of paying taxes for something they don't get to have any fun with.

Just pure vindictiveness. Only because for all these years, no matter the outcome, you ignored her up until you were hard up for gossip. Thank goodness for the Post. You just congradulating a vindictive person. I don't purchase newspapers that go as low as dipping for gossip. Post-Tribune doesn't even do that. Any reporter who works for the Times, downgrrades the integrity of real reporters.

BigFan wrote:

Well FT doesnt do freelance reporting on McTaverns. She only reports on her conspiracy theories regarding Hammond. The mayor should come out in support of mctaverns and then shell attack it. If she attacks it enough the times will write a story about it using her information and a lazy reporters name. This way, FT keeps he SSI and the times have articles to write.

She's a supporter of McTavern's.

Artie, what makes you say that, other than her "persona"? Keeping up with tatoos? I don't think her butt can be held up by a motorcyle seat unless it's built for 2 butts in the back.

Mumu's only show the arms.

How could she be so supportive of such a place where killings occur when Mr. Mayor McDermott is her target without a gun? :bball:

Honestly, despite awaiting your answer, anyone in favor of waking up to dead bodies in their garage apron, and being in favor of it, if it's FT, they must be her buddies.

Watch NWITIMES.COM BURST Monday..then what goes around, will come around to the ole'snoop. Promise ya.

Saturday night was rather calm only one fight at 12:30, and than the typical boomboxes and mutherfuker screaming, along with the sound of breaking beer bottles from about 2:45 to 3:15am

UrRight wrote:

Artie, what makes you say that, other than her "persona"? Keeping up with tatoos? I don't think her butt can be held up by a motorcyle seat unless it's built for 2 butts in the back.

Mumu's only show the arms.

How could she be so supportive of such a place where killings occur when Mr. Mayor McDermott is her target without a gun? :bball:

Honestly, despite awaiting your answer, anyone in favor of waking up to dead bodies in their garage apron, and being in favor of it, if it's FT, they must be her buddies.

She claimed some nonsense that they shouldn't be trying to close down businesses. If she was the one who lived next to it you know she'd be screaming bloody murder about McDermott not doing anything.

Perhaps if Hammond allowed the Times to publish police reports again there would be more coverage.

Also, if you look at this map you can see that the incidents seem to be unreported to the police?

Come on Robin that falsehood was put to rest long ago. It was the Times choice to quit printing the stats and nobody elses. Eve hear of freedom of the Press? The city or anyone else for that matter couldnt stop them.

Well, she got her 30 comments of fame yesterday. 2/3'ds from her and McDoobie (slumlandlord). More concerned about people having a good time (my brother spends $500.00 blowing up a fireworks show every year at the lake in Michigan, though his budget doesn't call for it, hey, we gotta "have some fun!)

Anyway, rather than focus on McTaverns' that eat up more resoures money-wise having to involved the cops, murder, drugs, gang-banging, she's against closing it up cuz those are the type of people she hung around with. The right priorities, Free! Yep!

Someone so concerned about "MY TAX MONEY" being spent, should be tied up at McTavern's on a chair outside, on a friday night, with a notebook, floodlight so she can see, and a magic marker and let's hear her tune, then.

I don't care if they took casino money so families can have a good time. We have enough grief the rest of the year. We deserve it, even if it is the public money. I don't think the mayor is as stupid as she makes him out to be. He's a lawyer. She's a nothing.

You can't tell me he's on her level, being a mayor, doing something to break laws. She's stupid enough and has done it.

All for 30 comments of fame. 15 from "Congratulations, you've worked on this for so long." Yeah, taxpayers, at YOUR expense, at her leisure time. While you supported her ..she got to sit at home at YOUR expense and dig up crap that got thirty comments. Well, 15 outside her and McDoobie's.

Why don't the Times hire her as an outside contractor part-time to report on some real issues in Hammond..afterall, I'm stalking her, I think I need that to be addressed.

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voter3 wrote:

Come on Robin that falsehood was put to rest long ago. It was the Times choice to quit printing the stats and nobody elses. Eve hear of freedom of the Press? The city or anyone else for that matter couldnt stop them.

Are you sure, Voter? I remember, while residing in Dolton, how much I treasured the crime reports given out by various news outlets. At one time, it was down to the "Times". I remember being in the Dolton cop station for some crap, and remember the clerk mistreating a reporter from the TIMES, the last one to bail out on reporting crime.

The clerk handed her a manilla folder with a tab on it saying, "For News Releases ONLY", and watched how frustrated the reporter was...because the crime reported apparently (from the look on the reporter's face) wasn't worth a trip. It was selective reporting, limited reporting.

I came to the conclusion after that, because when the crime reports came out, following that reporter's visit, I knew much more occurred that was not given to the reporter. Suddenly, everyone quit reporting. Because the cops don't want you to know how bad it is. Well, the mayor, anyway.


It still pics my interest why the Times never fails to report crime in Porter or Gary. Never fail to do that. If what you say is true, it's a crying shame. I think citizens that spend 75 cents on a newspaper ought to be informed as to just how hard our police serve us, whether in preventing crime, reporting crime, or to just give us an idea what to look out for.

I want to believe you when you say that Hammond is not withholding information. I want that to be true to because myself, and others want the media to report what we want to hear: the truth on crime. Not some crap from the AP, borrowed news, hours later from the Sun-Times or Chicago Tribune on Dolton or Lansing. We want a neighborhood newspaper for those of us who can't tune in on a radio station. We want facts on the trending of break-ins, patterns of occurances, nature of crime, when, where and what happened.

If what you say is true, why doesn't Keisling take up the task and then comment on it? Would give him something to back up his claims. LOL

Why doesn't Hammond just release the stuff in the Calumet News, , the CPR, whatever I pick up free...I'd pay for it if I got real police statistics and stories, locally.

I pick that paper up,it's free, and wonder why they don't interest us more by having local police reports in it. Then people would PAY for it.

voter3 wrote:

Come on Robin that falsehood was put to rest long ago. It was the Times choice to quit printing the stats and nobody elses. Eve hear of freedom of the Press? The city or anyone else for that matter couldnt stop them.

True, but they can make it difficult.

Nonetheless, did you look at the map I posted?

I suppose they think things are getting better. No gun shots the other night. Some guy got slashed with a broken beer bottle though.

License gone starting Jan 7, 2010.

As the sign says "what comes around goes around F CK EM !!! Thanks Sparks, Kantar, Chris Fleming and thoose who helped.

Yeah, I saw that sign saying what comes around goes around. I guess they got theirs. Good.

Next time the local bleeding hearts for the rights of nuisance bars, like the Preacher & FT start whining about attempts to close them,remind them that thanks to people like "Sparks","The Mailman",Mayor McDermott and his administration,shootings like this are now taking place down the road rather than at McTavern's....

Bouncer injured in shooting at Highland bar
HIGHLAND | A bouncer at a Highland bar was injured early Friday morning by patrons after he would not allow them to enter the business, police said.

At 12:57 a.m., police were called to Corkers, 9400 Indianapolis Blvd., for a report of a shooting. Police learned one of the bouncers refused entry to a group of five of six people who calmly left the tavern.

A few minutes later, one or two of the people who were refused entry returned and fired several shots into the entryway, injuring one of the bouncers.

Watch form these types of things to happen more frequently. The influx of people are not stopping only in Hammond.

I wish some detectives would check out those Section 8 high-rises, north of Hohman Avenue, but east after going over the bridge, I guess slapped between Hohman and Calumet Avenue?

I heard and know for a fact the low-life's are reeling, dealing drugs in those buildings...and deliver drugs.

One I know is an official gang-banger, with a union job.

His mom hooked on Vicatins, and he delivers Vicatins to his iron worker dad in IL that is hooked on them.

Years ago he had to drive a bullet-ridden car around.