I hope that Matt's plea for teenagers to contact him isn't the whole game plan against violence in Allentown. If so, we better button down the hatches very tightly. I watched kids in Reading doing burnouts around the Pagoda on WFMZ. I remember when it was Reading's pride and joy. WFMZ covers commotion in both Allentown and Reading. The news stories have a short shelf life. Likewise, the Morning Call vacillates with their stories, either not at all, or for months on end. Either one, either way, there is much more commotion than we hear about.
Over the weekend there was a rescue at Canal Park. Some female was pulled from the middle of the Lehigh River. If she was homegrown or from New Jersey, I don't know...the story only appeared very briefly.
Of course the big problem with Matt's call-in plan is who will be calling? The junior achievers will be calling in with good suggestions, but they're not the shooters. The shooters wouldn't be caught dead calling in, or they might end up that way.
Free Teen Range Time at the academy?
ReplyDeleteA Hug-a-Thug group dash?
E-bike scrambles through town?
Knife throwing contests?
Midnight basketball?
Back-alley boxing?
DeleteEarth to Mayor Tuerk and The Morning Call -
DeleteWhen you allow your city to ‘go to hell’ without any resistance, it STAYS there for several years to come.
Won't those be long-distance calls? Oh well, I guess with a lot of cell-phone plans, that doesn't matter any more. Of course he himself will have to have an international plan....and time zones can be tricky.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn’t too long ago that for as bad as Allentown was, I used to think to myself “At least we’re not Reading.”
ReplyDeleteAfter 4 years of Tuerk, we’ve caught up to them (and obviously not in a good way).
I saw his selfie video and I'm so ashamed for his family...he comes across as a completely self-absorbed and clueless person. That he thinks young Hispanic teens contemplating violent acts might first stop and call him is astounding. They might watch his video if only to make fun of him. I'm more worried about Tuerk's abilities now than ever after seeing that video.
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