philly fans/news

When I found out I was moving to Philadelphia, most of my friends were extremely negative about the city.

"Rebecca you can't move there. The fans are horrible. They threw batteries at Michael Irvin when he was getting carted off the field!"

So, yes, Philly has had a reputation for years. Well, last night during the Phillies game, a seventeen-year-old jumped onto the field and was tasered and dropped. The best part? Someone did it again tonight, literally pausing the game as Cole Hamels was winding up a pitch.

This was the leading story tonight on the news after the Times Square car bomber.

The crazy thing is that today there was a shooting at the corner in front of my school. The entire preschool witnessed the actual shooting as it was at the park where they were walking to, and the school went on lockdown. The man was shot in the shoulder but is going to be okay and the guys who did it sprinted off. We don't know why they did it, but he is related to one of our staff so hopefully she will keep us updated on his condition and the details.

Don't even get me started on how unsafe the whole process was. We "locked down" the school, which essentially meant "no recess." A real lockdown consists of locking every classroom door, closing windows, and having all students sit in the center of the room. We didn't even lock our outside gates and people were entering and exiting through the front doors of the school. True, the violence was not random and targeted at the school. However, it's not one of those things where you can just let precautions and procedures slide. It was a shooting. Someone was shot. Within 20 yards of the school. Not okay.

Anyway, this obviously did not make the news. Generally, there are a lot of shootings in Philly. I'm not going to act like this was newsworthy. It really isn't at this point. And that may be the craziest part...