The UPenn Police are at 40th & Chestnut ... In a message dated 2/24/2005 1:59:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Where is there a police station at 40th and Market? > > >In a message dated 2/24/2005 11:12:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, Kyle Cassidy ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>It's filled with rich, pampered criminals .... >> >> >> >>Student tossed in slammer for salad heist >>February 24, 2005 >> >> >>It's not very often a $6.95 salad from Houston Market is unforgettable. >> >>Yet College freshman Melanie Foreman is unlikely to forget the garden salad >>with feta cheese and ranch dressing she picked up on Tuesday. >> >>When the 19-year-old walked out of Houston Hall without paying Tuesday >>afternoon, Philadelphia Police were waiting with handcuffs. Foreman was >>arrested and charged with retail theft, a misdemeanor. >> >>The student was taken to the police station at 40th and Market streets, >>where she said she spent an hour crying in a cold cell without her >>sweatshirt or jacket, which police had taken away from her. >> >>While admitting that she was culpable, Foreman thinks that the police >>response was excessive. "I was wrong. I shouldn't have done it, but if >>they'd [just] told me not to do it again I sure as hell wouldn't have," she >>said. >> >>For her indiscretion, she earned a court date in Center City early yesterday >>morning -- scheduled for approximately the same time as one of her midterms. >>The judge was late, she said, so the court officers on duty told her to head >>to class and return later in the day. >> >>But that wasn't the end of this episode. >> >>She returned to find a judge's arrest warrant in her name and has to go back >>again this morning to sort things out. >> >>The moral of this tale for any student who attempts to lift food from the >>wide-open Houston aisles: She never even got a chance to eat the salad. So >>much for lunch on the run. >> >>-- Garrett Young >> >---- >You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the >list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see ><http://www.purple.com/list.html>. > ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
