October 11, 2007 edition


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COVER STORY:

The booze blues

t may not be their legal right, but there’s little doubt that young people in Northeast Philly still consider drinking in the woods their birthright.
Their determination to keep up a generations-old local custom is evident in the perpetual cat-and-mouse game they instigate with police, civic leaders and individuals unfortunate enough to live nearby the kids’ favorite stomping grounds. Much like the old cartoon Tom and Jerry, the cat rarely wins.
On any given weekend night throughout the year, and very often on weeknights during their summer vacation, dozens if not hundreds of kids and young adults can be found lurking in Pennypack Park, say police and civilian witnesses.

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EDITORIAL

It's a mad, mad world

Last Thursday’s cold-blooded executions of a pair of armored-car guards servicing an ATM at a Wachovia bank branch next to the Roosevelt Mall shocked not only the Rhawnhurst community but all of what used to be The City of Brotherly Love. And, thanks to surveillance tape of the slayings, the assassinations gripped the entire nation, albeit temporarily.
Unlike drug dealers, car thieves, robbers and other members of the Scum of the Earth Society who sometimes get what they deserve in the form of police bullets, the guards . . .

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