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Tragedy as girl, 3, killed in Philadelphia ice cream shop after security gate collapses
Daily Mail UK via AP ^
| 06/29/2014
| staff
Posted on 06/29/2014 11:05:19 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A metal security gate detached from the facade of an Italian ice shop in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon, killing a three-year-old girl, police said. The security door fell on the child at a Rita's Water Ice store in north Philadelphia at around 4:30 pm, according to the Philadelphia Police Department. The girl was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital and died after arrival. 'Our hearts and prayers go out to the child's family,' said Linda Duke, a spokeswoman for Rita's Italian Ice, the shop's parent company.
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To: Kid Shelleen; Albion Wilde; Tribune7; TAdams8591; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; wireman; Mr. Binnacle; ...
**** Philly Metro Ping ****
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:06:14 AM PDT
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Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:07:43 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Kid Shelleen
Tragic. I think it's even more tragic that business owners in our inner cities need to have these security gates installed on their storefronts in the first place. All this because of liberal policies that have enabled entire generations of inner city kids to have no work ethic and no respect for other people's property. We have turned out cities into war zones.
To: EEGator
L&I said that they only inspect security gates if they receive a complaint.
I hate to go political after a tragedy like this but do you remember what L&I put Joey Vento through for having his "Speak English" sign?
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:16:30 AM PDT
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Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:20:41 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: SamAdams76
That storefront looks nothing like the Rita’s outlets I’ve seen.
To: Kid Shelleen
The door before the incident:
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:21:33 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: BillyBonebrake
In some neighborhoods businesses have to be secured like drug houses so you only pass product and currency and the owners are protected from the customers.
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:23:37 AM PDT
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Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
Let’s have a look at that building permit and CO after inspection by the city.
Yea right...
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:35:24 AM PDT
by
DanielRedfoot
(Creepy Ass Cracker)
To: BillyBonebrake
No, it’s just an example of how inner city storefronts need to be barricaded at night - like it was Saigon in 1975. Because we have vandals and hoodlums that run wild at night. It’s sad that we have to see this in America.
To: Kid Shelleen
There are 4th. world areas around the country.
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:38:33 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
To: SamAdams76
inner city storefronts need to be barricaded at night - like it was Saigon in 1975. Because we have vandals and hoodlums that run wild at night. Its sad that we have to see this in America.I remember the first time I went to Italy and Greece in the late 60s and saw those gates all over, and thought, "Oh, WE don't have to live with criminals in the U.S. like THEY do..."
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:56:19 AM PDT
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Albion Wilde
("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
To: SamAdams76
The commie lib DemocRATS call that “art”. Kind of like peeing in a jar and putting a crucifix in it. It’s all “art” to the commie ‘RATS.
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:12:30 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
To: Kid Shelleen
Well, I guess the security gate wasn’t too... secure!
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:14:50 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: SamAdams76
In my town these are banned, though they grandfathered the handful of businesses that already had them.
They are ugly indicators of a declining area, but if I had a business I’d want them.
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:37:27 PM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: SamAdams76
All that graffiti makes the security gate too heavy. Of course they collapse.
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posted on
06/29/2014 1:02:59 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: Kid Shelleen
I would think that this would require bolts that go all the way thru the wall. I wouldn’t trust any of the anchors. I don’t know I’m not in a position to second guess the installer, but I’m sure he is in his own personal hell right now.
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posted on
06/29/2014 1:32:02 PM PDT
by
Mark was here
(If I had a Rodeo Clown he would look like Barak Obama.)
To: Kid Shelleen
Prayers for all involved.
To: Kid Shelleen
RIP, Wynter Larkin.
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posted on
06/29/2014 4:30:38 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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