As annoying and sometimes dangerous as they are, it is funny to call them marauders. Modern day Mongolian hordes washing down Broad Street. Nothing is left after they pass just desolation

The reverse in app purchase

I will say the Inspector Generals office has actually weeded out most of the literal graft. I’m not saying their isn’t misuse of funds or other thing. But people are no longer widely taking bribes. Which is something lol

I could almost agree, but most of these guys are ex-cops and have basically no oversight except the company that was hired to do the evictions. I’d rather it was a public employee and honestly not sure it needs to be law enforcement.

This is one of those areas that is just such a dark corner of municipal government that only effects poor people so it hasn’t been subject to the scrutiny that the rest of our government (which definitely still has massive issues) has. This is old school corruption and abuse of power

With stuff like this, it only comes up when absolutely egregious situations arise and the public protests. The reason we have these “agents” is because until the 60s Philly had elected constables like the rest of PA. They were basically eviction mercenaries and the final straw was one selling the furniture of a destitute family that was evicted without cause and became a public outrage. This type of work is dirty and should only be carried out by public servants who answer to a public office that has the ethics rules of city government. Sadly the sheriff’s department is not really that either

I agree it’s not incompetence but it may be it’s nefarious cousin-underfunded regulators. If their just aren’t enough staff to do the right thing, it serves the same purpose as bribing officials and it’s been the trend In government since Reagan. If you can’t outright get rid of a regulatory body, neuter it by underfunding it and understaffing. That way everything is “working” but is ineffective furthering the public’s doubt in government agencies

They are working to send public school the way of our health insurance system. Jeffrey Yass the richest man in PA and a massive conservative donor just happens to donate a good deal to a few prominent Philly Dems like State Senator Anthony Hardy Williams who support charter schools and “school Choice”

Remember when the gas storage field exploded in south Philly and released poisonous gas that only by the grace of god was blown out over the Atlantic. We were one stagnant day away from half of south Philly being seriously ill or dead

Watching the French fight for two years of retirement (as they should) makes me sad because we barely lift a finger in this country as capital strips our environment and our social welfare system

It’s also worth noting that prior to the riots after MLK was killed that area of North Philly was a thriving black owned commercial district. I lived near temple and older folks in the neighborhood told me how the city basically locked down the area and let the corridor that is now Cecil B Moore burn. It’s never recovered and many other policies contributed to its disinvestment. Now temple and the developers feeding off of its growing footprint are filling much of that void without offering much to the community. This doesn’t mean kids fighting in the food court are freedom fighters, it just adds context to the alienation and disinvestment that has lead the area to be so bad and the community to feel so at odds with the institution

Literally. I doubt they talk to the drivers union or at least don’t listen to them. Because some active presence of anyone who gave a shit at subway stations or on the cars would quickly reduce the fuckery

There was a bearded dude who drove trolleys that would get people who snuck on the back door by just putting his finger up and doing the “come here”. Never saw someone not walk up and pay

They may have. But early in the pandemic the septa drivers union lost a number of people because they were just getting rampantly exposed to Covid. I notice a lot like maybe 50% of bud and trolley drivers still wear masks. Many of them were still down to enforce it on their rides because they lost friends/felt especially exposed.

Yep! I take the bus from south to my job downtown almost every day. It’s relatively reliable and tho the sub is like two more blocks, and the bus gets snarled in traffic, it’s so much more orderly. Old dude got on with a big speaker in his cart playing soul music. Honestly it wasn’t even a bother cuz the music was good. But the bus driver stopped after two blocks with him playing it and was like “shut it off til you get off or you’re walking” and he did. Also in the days of mask mandates, we had a guy get on who didn’t want to put it on. Bus driver yelled at him and stopped. Everyone else just started screaming like “yo we don’t want to wear these either but we need to get to work dickhead” and he dropped whatever point he was tryna make real quick and took a mask from someone else

The irony of the tow truck issue is that we got the ticket requirement solely because Johnny Doc got his car towed by a Lew Blum truck and decided to tell Bobby Henon to destroy the industry.

Now I don’t really have any sympathy for the tow companies because they are such bad actors. but that legislation was built out of personal animus and not to help fix much if anything

I seem to remember a very highly upvoted comment about how Cecil B Moore would weep(with the assumption the shooter was black)

I remember living in north when that dude holed up in that house near broad and Erie and wounded like 6 cops. somehow they talked him out and didn’t dome him. The buzz of helicopters from that and then from 2020 had my brain scrambled

They will never see daylight again. Such needless suffering for the officer and his family. If they surrender to him they would see numbers but now the whole book will be thrown at them.

No team can beat a city that waits in our decrepit trolley subway stations. I love them, and it is good they exist but them stations are so janky

Big Charlie’s has powerful friends

You just reminded me that the spread was really the thing that put it over the top into oh fuck territory

Correct I come from sub country. Subs and hoagies are more or less interchangeable. I will say a hoagie is more specific than just being on a long roll. The shredded lettuce, tomatoes and oil or mayo is more specific here than in the northeast US. Subs are just anything on a long roll. Hoagies mean a certain dressing on a long roll in my experience

Can’t lie the best Italian hoagie I’ve had recently (and I live in south Philly with access to many great hoagies) was from Liberty Kitchen in fishtown. Absolutely expensive but holy shit those dudes put their whole elbow in that hoagie.

Shitty personal injury law firms are aiming for the lowest common denominator. You are a 7/11 employee who slipped and fell in the stock room, or a poor person who got clipped by a septa Bus? What is the first law firm that comes to mind…that’s all they give a shit about. We got people remembering us when they think maybe I need a lawyer to sue some company/institution for $30k