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PWD People of the Year: Melvin Fortune And The Anonymous, Awesome Love Park Bubble Pranksters
Very rarely do we get so much in just one short media appearance. Usually it takes at least a month — or, in Milton Street’s case, a career — of hilarity to approach the top of the Philadelphia Zeitgeist. Melvin Fortune is a special case. The Philadelphia maintenance worker said only two sentences to the media all year, and yet those two sentences managed to get him a nod in Philadelphia Will Do’s People of the Year. (This most important award of them all!) After pranksters poured a box of detergent into the Love Park fountain in early September, NBC 10 decided to focus on the bad side of the totally awesome prank, by interviewing a Fairmount Park commissioner who said it’d cost thousands to hose down Love Park and a woman from North Philly who said it was upsetting. And then NBC 10 talked to maintenance worker Melvin Fortune:
No sentence better explains Philadelphia, 2006, than “Keep your bubbles back at home.” Thank you, Melvin Fortune. (Who even inspired an anonymous commenter to adopt his persona as an angry conservative, for some reason.) And thank you, pranksters. If you ever want to share the details of your college-style prank that turned totally awesome with the world, you know who to contact. Philadelphia Will Do People of the Year | The List So Far |
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This is so funny, everyone loves makin’ fun of Melvin Fortune. Well you know what? Melvin Fortune is sick of it! Can’t a man just do his job in this country anymore without some hippie liberal vegetarian trying to make his life miserable??? Get a life!
Melvin is my cousin, and he is sick you people wandering around the city with your precious bubbles. Bubbles are like sodomy-something that should never leave the house. And yes, Melvin and I do think that the Soviets were involved in the bubble fiasco.
Melvin is my step brother, and he has become obsessed with bubbles ever since the last incident in Love Park that you lefty pinkos think is so funny. You’ve turned him into a shell of his former self, you and your blog, and your stupid comments. You should all suck some eggs!