“No one wants these pigs here.”
–Kathleen Murphy, a Lake Forest resident who signed a petition asking the city to force Estelle Gonzalez Walgreen to get rid of her three pet pigs living on her new 2.3-acre wooded estate
“The train sort of started grinding to a stop. There was a very loud dragging or grating noise. That’s when everyone got scared. People started looking at each other, worried.”
–Marti Palermo, a rider on the Blue Line, describing Tuesday’s derailment of a packed CTA rush-hour train
“It’s always good to have political clout.”
–Chicago Ald. William Beavers (7th), on his belief that people will not stop seeking political benefactors for city jobs
“When you read this … your life will change forever. You deserve it. You will be transformed from gold digger to ash and rubbish digger. You always wanted me to sell the house. I always told you I will leave the house only if I am dead.”
–An e-mail Dr. Nicholas Bartha sent to his ex-wife before an explosion destroyed their four-story home in Manhattan, injuring at least 15 people, including Bartha
“It’s regrettable. We regret it, he regrets it.”
–France’s soccer coach Raymond Domenech on French captain Zinedine Zidane’s head-butt against Italian defender Marco Materazzi that got Zidane ejected from the World Cup final game, which Italy won 5-3 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw
“You’re going to snicker when I say this. But just as Rush [Limbaugh] saved AM, I’m going to save FM radio.
–Erich “Mancow” Muller, whose shock-jock days are over at WKQX-FM, Q101, but who expects to land a job at another Chicago radio station
“It is almost like he got away with something again.”
–Jan Molinell, who lost $300,000 when Enron Corp. collapsed, on the fatal heart attack of former Enron chairman and chief executive officer Kenneth Lay
“We talk about a quarter-pound piece of foam being catastrophic to the vehicle–these are 4- to 6-pound birds. We laugh about it, but it is a serious risk.”
–NASA flight director John Shannon, on keeping vultures away from NASA’s space shuttle launch site in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
