To be safe, stay away from that whole area.

LJS always picks on poor spellers and usually has nothing to say about THE ARTICLE itself. It is getting very old!!

By the way I have caught he/she SPELLING incorrectly before and called them out.

NO COMMENT to that ever!!

It's "Death Wish" week on AMC.

How can they not be gang related? Look up the definition of GANG! http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/g...
That WAS a GANG of people that did this. Duh.

I would never jog through that part of town ,I would never walk through those streets at 9pm.
this is a well known poverty striken erea.
your life ,health, safty, is in your own hands.

ljs64 nit-pik spelling is all you can do If you get the drift of the word then accept it, not all people are perfect. As to the article and plz feel free to proof read ljs64, It is getting to a serious point as to the robberies and violence all over Janesville, it was going on up by the hospital for awhile and some of the injuries to the victims were serious. i just hope the get the morons so people can be safe in their own neighborhood NO MATTER where it is.

"dealy force without a dought"
Huh???
deadly......................doubt
truthteller is certainly not spellteller

I tell you what- if these guy's confronted me I would think my life was in danger and I would be fine with anyone that shot these guy's. They do a crime like this they are prepared to use dealy force without a dought. I can see a "Deathwish" type of person just going down there looking for an excuse. This city will be really bad in a couple of years. A gun store will be a good business to start in Janesville.

Triggerhappy, it's comments like that that give the anti-gunners the impression that all gun owners are...well, Trigger happy idiots!!! you CANNOT use deadly force unless you are truly in fear of your life!!! If someone is just yelling at you to hand over your money, that is not enough to shoot them! 5 people hitting or kicking you, yes. If they have a weapon, most definitely.

If you want information on what the robbers looked like... call the JPD. Quit pickin on Ted.

Shoot first and ask questions later.

I am sure that this was a traumatic experience for the victims, but I am struck by the fact that all three were not sure if it was four or five men. Just a coincidence, or does anyone else find that odd? Maybe they were huddled together, so it was hard to tell. It would probably look like six or seven to me.

very true outdoors

'Drop just one and the rest will think about it before they try it again'

that is unless you are the first one dropped

gmaof3 Has it ever crossed your simple mind that this was all the information Ted had ! Criticize all you want but Ted always does a good job and if it bothers you so much call the JPD and see what they tell you,the Gazette and any other news source,takes what they can get and nothing more. If the PD lets out the sketches or any other info to soon it will damper their investigation.

Glock21sf "no one has even known the law existed until the paper did an article on it". Your kind of right, but there is no law that allows open carry period. We only have laws that restrict gun carry, none that allow it. So because we have no law that prohibits the open carry of a firearm, by default its legal.

When I delivered pizza's I always carried two box cutters. One in my left jacket pocket, and one in the money bag.

Seriously? Once again, a "vague" story from the Gazette! This time, Ted Sullivan wrote it. How can we possibly be aware of the criminals, without better descriptions? I don't care where these incidents occur, without a description of some kind, its mighty difficult to know who to watch for. Come on Gazette, the first 3 strong-armed robberies or attempted robberies had victims who have info we could ALL use.

magog2k said "But if you can carry a gun, so can they........ 3 of them sound similar?"

Yes they can as well, but they are not legally allowed to do so, (they are committing a felony) and they are concealing theirs, at least the legal Open carry crowd are not hiding theirs and using them to commit crimes. And because they are carrying is exactly why we should be allowed to as well.

I think I will start practising the open carry law in this area. Drop just one and the rest will think about it before they try it again. Thugs beware, more people are starting to carry guns legaly. Not that they read any of this. Citizens start practising your right to carry a gun. This type of behavior will stop in a hurry.

Familyoffour, there is no NEW law about being able to carry,(that is the correct spelling by the way) Open carry in WI. has been allowed for decades in WI. and you have not even noticed, that is because there is no PROBLEM with it, no one has even known the law existed until the paper did an article on it, now it will be thrown in the face of gun owners from now until concealed carry is put into law. I would advise those of you out there who are afraid of, or opposed to guns to at least go to Gander Mountain or Addie's gun shop and purchase some pepper spray if you are going to be out walking or jogging, or delivering a pizza, or just going about your daily lives, because gangs and thugs do exist in Janesville.

crack sales must be up

OK what kinda idiots are these? Robbing a jogger? Yeah, they were going out for the evening with that job. Morons.

Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people.

I think the right to carry group should be out there!!! MAKE MY DAY!

Ted Sullivan, Could you put some sort of description of these "men" in your article please? Crime Stoppers does work, when people have some information to work with.

GANG of losers!!

Wasn't it just a couple weeks ago that people were saying there was no reason for the two guys to carry their handguns around? After reading the story on the "Melee" I changed my mind. While we're a safe community in a relative sense, there are still a lot of dangerous people around.

But if you can carry a gun, so can they........ 3 of them sound similar, but the pizza delivery robbery isn't the first time that's happened. I used to be a delivery driver, and we were told to carry only $20 in case of a robbery. Not to say I didn't have my tips or personal wallet on me at the time..... Never got robbed, but several drivers around the area have been mugged before--it doesn't always make headlines......

Regardless if it was only the one, it appears to be the same group operating in both daylight and darkness, which is pretty concerning to residents. I have a dog to walk at the moment, but I also have family members who are more vulnerable even with the dog.
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Property crimes are known to rise and fall with the economy, so I do hope this is not the start of a trend. We have had a couple of generally quieter summers in the Fourth Ward and usually it's the summers that are the worst.

Bassman, your right, with this new law of people being able to carrier hand guns now, they are going to go after the wrong person one day, and be sorry.

Not a gang??? Do you have to be a registered gang member to be called a gang?

all were black males

Give us a description of the perps so we can keep an eye out for them.

Description please?

Make no difference what color they are! They are punks that need an attitude adjustment and I'll bet they will pick on the wrong person sooner than later.
I would guess it is drug related,And I bet they hang out around the 5 points.

Once we get 2 sheets of ice, all this bad stuff will go away!

Did anybody bother to mention the race of these perpetrators? I guess politically correct rules here, huh?

yeah but if they're locked up then they can rehabilitate and learn what to do right so when they come out they'll be straight citizens.

wolflicker,
I think it would be great to set up some sort of trust fund that helps troubled youth. Maybe if more social programs existed to help steer and keep at risk youth out of a life of crime, this sort of thing wouldn't happen. But Nah, let's do it your way and lock everybody up for life. Because that makes things much safer and less expensive, right?

What? Happened in daylight? Let see here:

#1 Janesville Police Lt. Tim Hiers said a jogger was in the 800 block of McKinley Street at 1:30 p.m. (DAYLIGHT)

#2 Later that night, a woman was walking home from a convenience store at 9 p.m. (DARKNESS)

#3 An hour later, (10:00 p.m.) a man was getting out of his car in the 900 block of Rockport Road. (DARKNESS)

#4 About two hours later, (Midnight) a man ordered several pizzas to a vacant home on Washington Street (DARKNESS)

I would say all occurred in the darkness except 1.

Where is everyone that seem to always want to blame it on Obama and/or the economy? These things always happen and now that the economy still stinks, it's getting more attention.

Why can't we just call the kettle black and say it's idiots thinking it's cool or are so desperate that they think this is the only way of life.

It concerns me that 3 of these crimes happened in daylight hours and that there isn't more information about the description of these guys. I walk near the area once a day and don't carry cash, but I do carry an attitude and refusal to be intimidated. Not wise in every situation.

Set up an undercover cop as a pedestrian,stings work well for these situations but now that its out they probably will lat low until they need a fix again. Time to start packin da heat.