Posted on 12/18/2009 12:48:16 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
Police are monitoring large groups of roving teenagers in Center City.
Police said they had been alerted that youths planned to gather in the area in response to a dust up earlier in the week at the food court at the Gallery.
The message for the gathering apprently had been spread via the Internet, police said.
Security guards were posted at every entrance to the Gallery Mall on Market Street and reportedly were not letting anyone under the age of 18 in.
Police reported groups of 100 to 200 teens in the areas of Market Street, Sansom Street, Chestnut Street and Broad Street starting around 2 p.m..
One woman who was Christmas shopping reported she had been punched in the face by a girl after she found herself in the midst of 70 to 100 youths on Market Street. The blow bruised her face and knocked out a lens to her sunglasses.
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If Benjamin Franklin had only invented polyester instead of flying that damn kite.
You’re right. Splash damage could get a little out of hand. OTOH, you’d send an unmistakable message.
That's a good idea, blam.
I first started carrying everywhere over 30 years ago, after two feral humans tried to kill a young couple by throwing them into the Niagara River, just above the Falls. I decided then that I would never allow something like that to happen to me and my wife. My Model 60 became my constant companion. Things changed, and I got out of the habit of always carrying. It is time to return to my old ways.
It was actually Mayor Goode who ordered the bomb dropped in 1985. He was the city’s first black mayor.
Predictably the Phila Inquirer and Phila Daily News found someway to blame everyone else who was white including Rizzo.
Spent a few days there a decade ago for a conference.
I did not feel encouraged to ever return.
Thanks. Nice to hear from you neighbor.
No it was Wilson Goode, 1984 or so — and it was military grade C4 from the PA State Police.
You mean Wilson Goode in the ‘80s ?
The brothers aren’t showing much love it seems..
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