I realize that gas prices are something more affected by instability globally than those of other products, but I love the wording of this headline. Still: The most expensive gas in Jersey is $1.89! Remember when we were kinda sorta prosperous (or at least pretending to be prosperous, by buying houses) and gas was, say, $3.00 or $4.00 and we complained a ton?
No, me neither. I sold my car a while ago. But at least I don’t get a 50-cent surcharge in cabs anymore!
Here are some people, flipping a car at Broad & Walnut last night. Sorry for my clumsy narration at the beginning (my voice sounded even more annoying that usual last night, apparently).
Cops in riot gear always remind me of Mega Man. They should totally give them the Metal Blade, it’d be way easier to subdue a rowdy crowd with that kind of equipment.
Times are tough in the journalism industry. Everyone has to make sacrifices. Whatever. Tell that to Philadelphia Media Holdings executive vice president Mark Frisby, who has a shiny new Maserati, according to a tipster who passed along this photo. Shouldn’t it be shinier if it’s brand new? Tsk, tsk.
I wouldn’t tell the former publisher of The Courier Post (a Gannett paper, naturally) to avoid buying new toys in this time of fiscal crisis; after all, I just got Wii Fit a few weeks ago. But considering a lot of the rank-and-file at PMH considers him a henchman brought to fire people, I might suggest passing on the vanity plate next time.
The mystery Lu Ann Cahn and crew recently uncovered was one of the darkest scandals they’ve ever done: Remote car door locks weren’t working in the parking lot of a local Kohl’s.
“Weird mystery,” one person said.
“I could not believe this,” another person said.
Yes, who could believe this wild story! Perhaps it’s a ghost of a motorist run down by an automatically locked car, catching the radio waves with his ghoulish powers. Or maybe it’s interference somewhere. The Investigators got two members of the Pottstown Area Radio Club to investigate; they fingered a source inside the Kohl’s. How deep will this mystery go?
Not much further, actually, as Kohl’s simply said they were looking into the problem — but three days after the report was filmed, remote car locks were working again.
“Now it’s working,” one person said.
“It works now, thank you,” another person said.
Whoo! Good job, NBC 10 Investigators: You’ve made the world safe for remote unlocking of car doors.
Before City Council leaves for its three month vacation today, let’s tell them what they’ve won: A new car!
Yes, it’s time once again for the tradition where City Council members all get new cars for their service to the city. Chris Brennan lets us know their options: “Council members can replace their city-issued cars with one of three new models: the Chevrolet Impala, the Chevrolet Malibu or the Ford Taurus.” And they don’t even need to have a dollar left to give to Bob Drew to buy the car after they guess all the numbers.
Um, so here’s a good idea: Let’s put plastic on the ground that makes it look like there’s something in the street. That way, drivers will swerve and crash into a parked car full of orphans, killing 7 slow down, have a good chuckle and make the roadways a little safer.
That’s the plan of a new program called DriveCare Philly, which attempts to make people slow down with the use of these “high-tech” devices. Take, for instance, Bluegrass Road in the Great Northeast (if you must know, it’s near my parents’ house). The speed limit is 25, and yet people — get this! — drive much faster than 25 down that road.
And these fake 3D bumps and a few other things are going to solve that problem, hallelujah. Then we can move on to the inevitable rear-end crashes these plastic things cause, knowing Philadelphians.
Surrounded by local mascots, Nutter drove the [hybrid] car a few yards on the bridge between the Main Hall and Grand Hall, to promote Saturday’s opening of the show.
He says that as as mayor, he doesn’t get the chance to drive himself much anymore: “What I’d really like to do is just kind of go up and back for the rest of the afternoon and really test my driving skills.”
Come on, Mike! You have many, many more years of being chauffeured around town; by the end of your term(s) you won’t even remember where the turn signals are. All that info’s going to be pushed out of your brain anyway. Driving up and back a few yards isn’t going to do much.
“Lexus continues to be a great advertising partner of ours,” Comcast-Spectacor President Peter Luukko said in a press release. “As we continue to look for new and exciting opportunities for our fans and our sponsors, Lexus remains a terrific partner.
“As a result of this new arrangement, we’re able to offer our customers who drive Lexus cars an opportunity to park in a specially designated space with other Lexus owners.”
Whoo! You get to park with other Lexus owners! I understand the need for reserved parking at the Flyers, but the Sixers? You can probably pull up five minutes before gametime and get the best parking spot in the house.
Not content to carry simply trash and whales, the Schuylkill river picked up another object recently: A new car!
Well, it’s probably not new, but a car was spotted underwater around near the Falls Bridge. NBC 10 says there’s no indication anyone is in the car. (Police checked anyway, since, y’know.) There weren’t any signs of the car sliding into the river near the banks, so the only logical explanation is there was hundreds of thousands of dollars buried under a big ‘W’ and some kid said the stream was shallow. (Or, if you wish, Bart Simpson said it.)
