I guess you haven't read about UCD's alternative. Huge solar-powered electromagnets on the $855,000 street light poles planned for the elegant corridor in front of the Shoppes of Baltimore Avenue. People carrying guns will be whisked off the sidewalks by these magnets and suspended eight feet in the air, until the Safety Ambassadors come along and flip the switch -- at which time the miscreants will slide down the poles into specially-designed wheeled "hav-a-hart" culprit cages, designed to be towed in back of bicycles. They'll be whisked to the abandoned Horny Hardart's Automat in the 3900 block of Chestnut Street where first offenders will get their just desserts in the form of a three hour lecture by Wendell Lewis. Second offenders will be assigned community service picking up spent cartridges on the sidewalks immediately adjacent to the Penn Campus. A poll taken by UCD over the Internet by people who have voluntarily donated to the organization and who claim to have heard of Baltimore Avenue indicates there will be no third offenders.
Always at your service & ready for a dialog, Al Krigman -- 36-year local resident, housing provider, curmudgeon, and all-around crank, ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
