August 06, 2008

LOVE Triangle Leads To Fatal Stabbing

Um, yeah: Yesterday, two women were arguing over Tony Stewart (not the race car driver) in LOVE Park, when one of the women fatally stabbed the other.

As far as I can remember, this is what precipitated the renovation of the park to make it "unskateboardable." No, wait, that was just a bunch of suburban kids who pissed off John Street because they brought a major week-long event to the city (and were white). Well, whatever. Here's the details from yesterday:

Cops said that the squabble reached a tipping point at about 3 p.m., when Stewart's homeless girlfriend, Yvette Prince, slugged her rival in the head. The other woman, also homeless, jumped up and plunged a knife into Prince's chest.

Prince, 45, died of her injuries at Hahnemann University Hospital at 4:54 p.m., investigators said. The unidentified stabber, who is in her 50s, was taken into police custody, but charges were not filed as of last night.

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January 22, 2007

Reason #39 To Love Philadelphia: Uh, This

Our local government makes some dubious choices, but the mayor has never signed off on an idea like destroying the makeshift homes of the homeless.

St. Pete To Homeless: Screw You [YouTube]

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May 03, 2006

Mocking The Homeless In Print For Fun And Profit: A Guide

The lead story in this week's edition of The Weekly Press, the Center City newsweekly, is about how SEPTA's service is poor, its stations aren't well-designed, it's messy and so forth. I know: Stop the presses and all that.

The author, Richard Carreño, has a Wikipedia entry about him -- "Holy shit!," I said, when I found it -- that notes he used to be from London. (Hence all the comparisons to the Tube.)

The article's a little weird, though, and not just for the mysterious "move over Inga Saffron?" line halfway through it. Let's take a look at some of the earlier paragraphs:

Everyone has a pet SEPTA horror story. How about the Hooverville-like encampments by bums in some Center City subway-surface (Green Line) stops? The malodorous wafting of urine stain that pervades the Broad Street (Orange Line) subway? The pimped-up, teenaged thugs who harass fellow passengers on the El (Blue Line) each school day? Police? Forgetaboutit.

A female Center City friend, who works at Penn, tells me that there isn’t a day that goes by that she doesn’t get the heebie jeebies when at Penn’s Green Line station. That’s the stop, as thousands of commuters know, inhabited by Penn’s version of Quasimodo, an unfortunate who has all the good looks of his doppelganger from Notre Dame, as well as being blessed with the laser-like visual acuity of Charlie Manson.

Ha ha! Isn't making fun of the homeless fun! I can't wait until his next article comparing wheelchair-bound people to characters from Beauty and the Beast.

SEPTA Fie! Semper infidelis [Weekly Press]
Richard Carreño [Wikipedia]
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