Editors everywhere are preparing their “The Family That Robs Together, Stays Together” headlines for tomorrow.  It’s what they do when fruit this ripe falls in their laps.   While this story involves Chicagoans, it’s where they did what they did that makes it a tale of Milwaukee frivolity.

A 17-year-old teen in town from Chicago for his mother’s birthday yesterday apparently robbed two gas stations in Greenfield and Milwaukee at gunpoint before he and his mother – the alleged getaway driver – were captured by Greenfield police last night. Others along for the ride? The woman’s three other children, a 13-month-old girl and two boys, ages 10 and 14, who Greenfield police were aware that their older brother was robbing the businesses after planning out the capers with the 37-year-old mother.

That kinda makes the Dairy Queen ice cream cake I got every year for my birthday seem about as crappy as this.