Mayor Street Upset By Hypothetical Philly Disaster, Still Ambivalent About Current Philadelphia Disaster

If you’re wondering what has John Street’s ire these days, it’s not the city’s murder rate, or the lack of snow removal last storm, his brother Milton or even the terrible play of the Flyers and 76ers.

No, he’s upset about a new book that hypothesizes about a terrorist attack in Philadelphia. That’s not the whole point of Stephen Flynn’s The Edge of Disaster — which “offers a chilling Philadelphia scenario in which terrorists target the Sunoco refinery, causing toxic fumes to drift over Citizens Bank Park packed with Phillies fans” — but it’s gotten Street up in arms nonetheless:

“They ought to be qualified in a way so that they’re not calculated or likely to create any kind of panic in Philadelphia, New York or any other cities.”

With any luck, this will happen during a Phillies-Mets game, taking out a bunch of North Jersey residents in the process. Hey, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

New Terrorist Book Upsets Mayor Street [KYW 1060]