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Levittown Priest Sends Awesome Letter

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The annual St. Mike’s Fair in Levittown — which has been running since my dad was a student at the school, I think — wanted to have fireworks this year, but Tullytown1 police say no go.

Why? Well, the Tullytown police chief was inconvenienced the last time they had fireworks, in 1995. “I was stuck with my patrol car on Levittown Parkway for three hours,” Police Chief Pat Priore actually told the newspaper.

St. Mike’s pastor Michael DiIorio isn’t happy with the decision. And he sent Tullytown an awesome/hilarious letter!

DiIorio said he didn’t believe the fireworks would draw 30,000 people. He called the number “arbitrary and grossly exaggerated.”

“Presently there are approximately 32,000 people in Levittown. I firmly doubt that every man, woman and child will attend the St. Michael’s Fair on one evening,” he wrote.

Tullytown has its own fireworks display every September. “If our fireworks are “unsafe’ then so are those of the borough,” DiIorio wrote. “Therefore, September fireworks for the borough should be cancelled at once.”

Ha ha, because he can’t have his fireworks he doesn’t want anyone to have them. Also, the annual Tullytown fireworks show is invitation only. Jerks!

1 Levittown is only a post office and a census-designated place; the area that is Levittown actually spreads over five different townships/boroughs/whatever in Bucks County. When I was an intern at the Bucks County Courier Times, my bosses were very insistent that we never refer to anyone as “from Levittown,” as they were actually from Bristol Borough or whatever.

St. Mike’s Fair fireworks deemed ‘too dangerous’ [Bucks County Courier Times]

  1. sly Says: May 21 11:56 AM

    You wrote for the Courier Times? But you write so well. You must not have learned anything as an intern.

  2. goodtouchbadtouch Says: May 21 12:40 PM

    i’m from levittown! i lived there from age 6-18. and i always say so. don’t listen to your old bosses.

    not tullytown, though. ew, i gotta draw the line somewhere.

  3. Mark Says: May 21 2:26 PM

    Fuck that, I say I’m from Levittown. Bristol Borough is just plain yucky.

  4. Jeffrey Says: May 21 3:48 PM

    That’s crazy. What’s next: is Tullytown going to outlaw drunken eighth graders at the St. Mike’s fair?
    Also, as someone who lived in Levittown during high school, I can tell you in no uncertain terms that I would NEVER have told anyone I was from Bristol Township. The name of that town has the word “Bristol” in it, for Christ’s sake!

  5. poopie Says: Jun 19 3:54 PM

    yall’s is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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