Cashing In On Coatesville

Zing!

Amazingly, this appears to be just a coincidence and not a bad joke; the shirt is from the “My City is Hot” online store. It has this shirt for, like, every city in America. All of them do have this horrible design, though.

I also enjoyed this one below, though, from Save Coatesville, which is about the many recent cases of arson:

I can picture a guy going, “Come on baby stop the fires! Ohh, I get it. Okay, I’ll stop setting fires.”

As is almost always the case with Cafepress products, you can get this design on a bib.

Thanks, Mario and Shannon

Things In Coatesville Still Not Great

As you might’ve heard, there have been 13 arsons in Coatesville in the last four weeks, including one on Saturday that burned 15 homes.

Sadly, though, for Coatesville’s residents, things are going to get worse before they get better. Case in point: The Guardian Angels are coming to town! Curtis Silwa and his crew did such a bang-up job patrolling SEPTA, they’re headed to Coatesville to… I dunno, walk around and try to catch someone setting more fires.

And even the city’s charity isn’t working out: The Coatesville Memorial Community Center has put a stop to collecting food and clothing: “The community center at 99 9th Ave. in Coatesville has so much donated clothing that it is hard for it to provide all its normal recreation activities[.]”

Oof. Is there anything people out there can be happy about? Why, yes! The West Chester Daily Local — which did this amazing year-end video — has a new video out with the same awesome narrator. I think he’s doing a Walter Winchell impersonation, but I can’t really be sure. You know what? Forget the other links in this post. You really need to hear the first 10 seconds or so of the video.

Photo by Cyberesque used under a Creative Commons license

Quickies: Strippers and murder, what a combo

• Okay, so a weird story got weirder: The suspect in the slaying of an ex-cop — who used to date the suspect’s mom — says that the dead man raped his sister when she was seven. There’s some doubt from the prosecution, but, ew. [Inky]

• Newly-engaged Dan Gross heads to — where else? — the brand new enormous strip club in South Philly, where the 12,000 square foot size makes the fake boobs not the only big thing. [DN]

• You know, when I was 13, I didn’t burn down houses and murder people over a $20 debt, but maybe I was a bit of a prude. [Inky]

• Great line in a Bucks County Courier Times column: “Parents who do beer bongs with their kids are criminals, but they have one thing going for them the rest of us don’t. Their children can’t call them hypocrites.” Touche, parents who let their kids drink in the basement! [BCCT]