Posted on 12/18/2011 3:36:58 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
PHILADELPHIA - A North Philadelphia shop owner said he had no words to describe his emotions upon returning from India, where he had attended his mother’s funeral, to discover his store had been looted and vandalized.
Bhupinder Cheema had operated a small convenience store near Germantown Avenue and West Cumberland Street, and had invested thousands of dollars into the business. Over the course of trip to Indian, which lasted several weeks, word spread through the neighborhood that the store had been left unattended.
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bttt
Finally, a concrete example of what community organizers do.
They may as well fire the entire police force. They are obviously useless.
This evil businessman is clearly responsible for another area of the inner city becoming a Food Desert. He should be severely punished. < /s>
Shhh. I have a reputation to keep.
A few years back, my wife and I were in Las Vegas, I noticed a sign saying, California only so many miles, 40 or so? I had never been there but my wife had, so we drove into Californian, took the very first exit and made a turn around. I entered the on ramp to go back to Nevada and there was no trafic to speak of so I pulled over while still on the ramp, opened my door and stepped my left foot on the ground. Now I can say, I have stepped foot in California.
I live less than 10 miles from NYC, and haven’t been there for over a decade. I don’t intend to, either.
I used to go there often, before I truly appreciated the 2A.
Now I avoid it (and all places which disallow self-defense) like the plague. (NJ is on that list)
That’s too funny; one of my in-laws was a manager in Basics. (Remember when that was down there?)
His descriptions of the Kearny PD dealing with the Newark residents were absolutely hysterical, though depressing in hindsight.
We were mostly driving on interstates, so missed the “diverse” sections...
Amish
Nope,just Holder’s people again I’ll bet.
I was in Philly for a few days for my job; we were in a hotel by the Liberty Bell, and I have to tell you I thought it was pretty decent. At night we went north to some Colombian restaurant, and saw parts of the city that were not so decent.
In a city near where I live, about 30 years ago, the south side of the city had no big super markets. Finally, one opened, they had to hire armed security guards for every hour they were opened and in Illinois that generally means off duty cops and they don't come cheap.
The store was struggling and people were complaining about high prices but they had to cover the costs of those security guards, plural because they always had two on duty, plus they had to cover the cost of losses due to shop lifting and employee theft.
The final straw that made them close was when one of the guards was killed by armed robbers. The owners told the local newspaper that they couldn't stay open because their liability insurance premiums had sky rocketed and they could no longer even find enough security guards to work there.
There's still no larger grocery store in the entire section of that city, one of Mooshele's "food desert areas".
If thugs like those EVER show up at our local polls,I guarantee the citizen’s response will make the national news.
Holder’s people.
Holder’s people doing what comes from their edumacation, thanks to president Johnson.
Compliments of Occupy Philly?
Get out of that hellhole, Bhupinder. Not all of America is like that.
Funny, that was my thought, too.
There is a reason that stores don’t open in those areas. And a reason that the stores that DO open in those areas charge appropriately high prices for their goods.
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