I just got back from a business trip to Philadelphia. The area I was in wasn’t all that far from the scene of this murder, but it seemed fairly nice. The rest of Philadelphia, on the other hand, looked like an unflushed toilet.
“The rest of Philadelphia, on the other hand, looked like an unflushed toilet.”
The city of brotherly love?
Phila. west of Broad Street and Montgomery/Diamond (west of Temple Un, my old school), looked like an “unflushed toilet” in 1980 when I was last there.
Glad to know that the Democrats have done so much to improve it in the past 28 years (Mayor Street, Rendell, etc).
Time to flush the whole place and start over again.
I’ve been to Philadelphia a few times on business. A very scary city. One time I walked over to the Liberty Bell at around 1:00 PM and I was followed by a group of five or six young black guys. When I turned left, they turned left; when I turned right, they turned right. The Liberty Bell was pretty much deserted (stupid me, I thought there’d be some City employee there to give a brief, bored lesson on the thing), so, instead of paying it my respects, I passed it up, picked up my pace, and headed back towards my hotel, blending in with some other pedestrians. I looked back at the gang and they had stopped, but they were watching me as I continued on my way. Like I say, a very scary city.