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Does someone have any indication of the TIMES when these
incidents
occurred? The first incident where the victim was shot in the face struck me as unusual, since, if I recall right, it occurred Pretty early in the evening. The ugly crimes used to start later at night. If criminals assume that they can get away with these crimes at earlier hours, I fear we are reverting back to the situation we had in the mid- 1990s where no time of day was really safe in University City. That was A bleak period, when we had muggings and robberies right in the middle Of the day. Ann Mayer Actually the time of day makes no real difference where crime's
concerned - anywhere, not just UC or West Philly. I have, in the
past, been mugged 3 times - all 3 times in Center City, all 3 times in the
middle of the day to early evening (with lots of people around - once was right
in front of the old Woolworth's on Chestnut Street with people watching!).
This was before I learned the "walk fast - a moving target's harder to hit"
theory. Works pretty well, at least those times when I can walk
fast;) Of course, night - especially late night does seem to be a more
opportunistic time for the bad guys to be out and about looking for someone
alone/lost/drunk/whatever ...
The 45th and Locust incident? Did NOT happen at 45th and Locust -
that's our intersection. We would have seen/heard, if nothing else, the
police activity following something like that, as we live 3 doors away from the
corner.
It might have been 45th Street, but otherwise, I've heard nothing about
this one. The 45th and Pine assault was on the evening news the day it
happened and it was the dinner hour, as it was "breaking news" on the local news
that day.
Wendy
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