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Kevin stayed here for a few days this week.

Last week, Kevin invited a couple of local teenagers into his apartment. They ended up taking about $800 cash from Kevin and Mike when Kevin wasn’t looking. Two days later, Kevin saw the young man who stole the cash and asked him to return at least part of the hundreds of dollars taken so that Kevin wouldn’t have to call the police. The young man agreed to meet Kevin later that night to return the money. At 2am, after Kevin had put down about 1/5 of vodka, the young man, true to his word, showed up with the promise of returning to Kevin a portion of Kevin and Mike’s cash. The young man said that his friend had the money and was on his way to deliver it, and the young man invited Kevin outside to wait with the young man and several other teenage boys from the neighborhood. As it turned out, the promise of returning the money was a rouse. One of the boys pulled a knife and held it against Kevin’s throat while the others entered Kevin and Mike’s apartment. When the boy with the knife wasn’t looking, Kevin sprung up and ran to the nearest convenience store to seek help, leaving the other boys in his apartment with Mike. Fortunately, Mike was unharmed, but the youngsters did make off with Mike’s 42” flat screen TV, Mike’s laptop computer, Mike’s Playstation 3, Mike’s 20 Playstation 3 games, and Kevin’s cellphone.

The teenage boys that robbed Kevin and Mike live about a block away from Kevin and Mike. They’re neighbors. There’s no way Kevin and Mike can keep on residing in their apartment in Humboldt Park without running into these boys, who probably want to kill Kevin. Additionally, Mike is understandably quite upset with Kevin for his foolishness.

So now Kevin’s out on his ass. He said he was going to take a bus up to Minnesota to stay with his grandma until things blew over, but after a few days here, Kevin went to stay with Matt C-man in Lincoln Square (not Park). I don’t know what Kevin’s plan is. Not just for the time being, but for the long run. Kev’s a little bit insane. I know we all are, but Kevin’s insanity has a detrimental effect of Kevin’s day-to-day existence. I hope this experience knocks some sense into him, but it probably won’t.