Hey, Look! More Links!

Phillies update to come later, maybe after the game tonight. (Late night posting!) For now, here are more links.

• Bank Robbers today risk a lot but don’t really get all that much cash. Also, they wear hats. [AP/Philly.com]

• Two U.S. congressmen from Western Pa. don’t think Philadelphia pays taxes, or something, and as such doesn’t deserve any money from the state for public transit. Also, they want to stop a program that would build roads in Northwestern Pa. Hooray for politics. [Inquirer]

• Hannibal Lecter was tried in Bucks County: “[Dennis] Strong, who is incarcerated, had to wear the ’spit mask’ because there was fear he would spit and be unruly in court, a law enforcement official said. The mask consisted of see-through black mesh netting that was placed over his head and a cotton piece around his mouth.” [Bucks County Courier TImes]

• NBC 10 has another story about strippers on golf courses, which is the station’s second in just a few months. It’s the story that never dies! [NBC 10]

• And, ooh, the city’s suing septa over getting rid of transfers! [KYW 1060]

Slow News Day Quick Links

Okay, it’s been slow for a bit now, but it’s really, really slow this week. When the top story on the news is a cheesesteak joint suing a market… well, you get the idea. As such:

• A woman stole a police car, dropped off the kid she was with, then crashed the Chevy Impala cruiser. She apparently drove around for about an hour, though, so that’s fairly impressive. [6 ABC]

• Big news in Cherry Hill! The school wants to buy alcohol sensors and will not ban The Joy Luck Club from the reading list. There’s sex in the book, and we all know how Cherry Hill feels about “smut.” [The Courier-Post]

• Another blow to suburban white kids. [Bucks County Courier Times]

• And, uh, the biggest story of the day: “The Courier-Post is recruiting plugged-in members of the community to come to our Cherry Hill office and learn about our new online calendar.”

Hating On: Democracy, SEPTA, Kids, Myself

Last night was the, uh, historic YouTube debate, where idiots got to record themselves asking questions to the Democratic presidential candidates. It was, of course, unintentionally hilarious and saddening at the same time. (I can’t wait ’til the Republican one.) I turned it off when the piano-playing cat asked a question and began writing a list of links for the blog so I could clear out my Firefox tabs.

Of course, I then deleted it by accident. So here’s my re-done list of links that was supposed to go up around 9 last night.

• At Wissahickon High, students will be forced to use clear or mesh backpacks. Apparently, a ton of suburban private and public schools force the kids to wear clear backpacks in order to stop them from shooting up the school or something. Back in my day, we just kicked out the kids who were different! [Inquirer]

• Ocean City is soliciting bids to become the first New Jersey shore community to be completely covered by wireless Internet. Ostensibly the Wi-Fi won’t cover the beach, but if it does I suggest anybody on the beach with their effing laptop gets it thrown into the ocean. [KYW 1060]

• The alleged HIV-positive prostitute who was at Cheyney University shared her side of the story with the Delco Times. She blasted — who else? — the press and the police in her letter. [Delco Times]

• Speaking of letters, these first two in yesterday’s Daily News were pretty guh-wha as well. [DN]

• Kids nowadays are spoiled with giant playsets in the backyard instead of just going to the better, bigger playsets at the playground. We had this giant rocketship and sometimes people would go get some wax paper and everyone would slide down the two-story slide on the paper and it was awesome. Ha ha, suck it, kids! [Inquirer]

• Robbery thwarted at Mayfair K-Mart: “When officers arrived on the scene, the two suspects fled on foot. The two climbed onto the Kmart roof, and then jumped 20 feet to the street. One of the suspects broke both of his legs; the other suspect was also injured, Thompson said.” [Inquirer]

• And one more from the Inky about what SEPTA is going to use its newfound money on. Apparently, SEPTA is doing better than everybody thinks even though Sunday I had to pay extra money to buy a ticket on the train even though I got there 15 minutes early because there are no ticket machines anymore and the line for the one person selling tickets was about a light-year long — but I digress. [Inquirer]