Actually, since you made the assertion that athletes are less likely
to be involved in those activities, I think it's up to you to find
the documentation.
Are they really the *last* group you'd suspect? Would you suspect
Theater majors more? Or Computer Science students? The list goes on.
When I pass party houses on Baltimore and along 40th St., including a
house full of Rugby players, I see a lot of angry white guys.
Frank
On Apr 29, 2007, at 03:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Student athletes are the last group of young people I'd suspect
to be doing vandalism. You can probably find studies that confirm
the impressions of many that they are, as a whole, better students,
more disciplined, more supervised, less likely to be involved in
crime, drugs, or even sexual activity. I'd really be surprised if
high school track kids were running the streets - especially in a
residential area - after midnight without any supervision.
That's not to say that non-athletes who might be at the Relays
would be up to no good.
Paul U
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: UnivCity@list.purple.com
Sent: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [UC] plethora of smashed car windows this morning
Some neighbors and I just witnessed an attempted act of vandalism at
45th and Larchwood at 12:49. We heard a loud pop, a car alarm and
smashed glass. We discovered that a neighbors car had been pelted with
a bottle. Fortunately the car looks undamaged.
I spoke with some neighbors about this and the story we pieced
together was:
A neighbor had seen a group of teenage boys (one with a Coatesville
jersey) remove item(s) from the bed of a parked truck at the corner of
46th and Larchwood. They then attempted to throw a glass bottle
through the window of a Lexis SUV parked on Larchwood. Neighbors gave
chase but the kids ran off very quickly.
A neighbor asked me if this weekend was Penn Relays . He thought this
had happened before and his theory was that groups of young athletic
track kids have too much time on their hands and that they are fooling
around out of boredom and perceived anonymity. They also have the
ability to get away very quickly.
I called the cops and they showed up in a few minutes and took down
the relevant information.
Lowell
On 4/29/07, Brian Siano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ross Bender wrote:
>
> > Spring 2007. University City Village lay in ruins.
Teetotallers, many
> > of them AME deacons, wandered the streets harassing drunken
yuppies,
> > weekend oenophiles, and smashed cars.
>
> (Soundtrack: Adagio by Samuel Barber)
>
> NARRATOR: Wounded dogs roamed at will, seeking out radioactive
cats for
> automatic barbecues. The lavapit that was aonce Clark Park
continued to
> host festivals, now known as Burning Man. The mutants-- the
inheritors
> of this hell once called the Green Earth-- lived in the underground
> remnants of the Mill Creek, seeking out the pieces of shattered Penn
> students to cook in the ruins of Abbraccio. The weather itself had
> turned its terrible wrath upon Man, bringing down meteor storms.
Then
> fireballs. Then rains of ice weasels, which fell into chimneys to
feast
> on yummy radioactive soot that tasted, well, not really tasted
_like_,
> but... well, you know those Lorna Doone crackers? Imagine if you
took a
> handful of those, and ground them into a really fine powder, and you
> used _that_ instead of sugar on a big stack of purple Necco wafers,
> right? Okay, you got that? Well, that's what radioactive soot
tasts like
> to ice weasels. So they're eating that after they get dropped out
of the
> sky, and... Oh, yeah. It's snowing in April, too.
>
> (A shadow enters the screen; mutants look up in awe and fear.)
>
> NARRATOR: Into this hell has come a man. Born of ice and steel,
he has
> come to... Uh, Frank?
>
> DIRECTOR: Uh.. yeah, Steve? Is there a problem?
>
> NARRATOR: Isn't this kind of... you know...
>
> DIRECTOR: Steve, just read the lines, okay?
>
> NARRATOR: No, really, Frank, I can't read this. It's fascist.
>
> DIRECTOR: Fascist? Whaddya mean fascist? You're the voice over
guy. Just
> read the lines, and we can go eat lunch at noon like human beings
do.
>
> NARRATOR: (Sigh) Into this hell has come a man. Born of ice and
steel,
> he has come to wage war upon the mutant hordes. To retake power
for the
> humans clean of mutation, To purge once and for all the scourge of
> degenerated oh dear Christ, Frank, I will NOT read any more of this
> Teutonic Superman Nazi BULLSHIT, I don't CARE how much the studio
paid
> for that CGI work, I am NOT going to be PART of this... no, I'm not
> gonna shut up, Frank, I can egt on the phone and in _five
minutes_ I can
> have the whole voiceover UNION on a picket line and you'll have
to hire
> your scab brother with the stutter to sell your stupid movie to
those
> goddamn comic book geeks
>
> (tape ends)
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