STAY CLASSY PHILADELPHIA

      Okay, so back when I lost my job in radio back in 2009 and my fiancee and I made the move towards South Jersey near the Philadelphia area, I started to look for radio jobs in Philly. I figured it might be easier for someone with my skill set and my New York City radio background to land a job in another big city. I landed an interview with the Danny Bonaduce show and killed the interview only to have the Program Director tell me that I didn't know the Philly market well enough since I was new to the area. WHAT? I worked in New York City! I couldn't learn another big city market in the blink of an eye? Needless to say, that station flipped in under a year and is now a sports station. 

     Anyway, my point in telling you that story is that this Program Director was probably right! Apparently, I don't know the Philly market that well. It turns out; people in Philly are absolute animals! Residents in a hip Philly neighborhood are said to be fuming after a local radio station, Radio 104.5 WRFF, hosted an outdoor weekend concert where scores of drunken revelers were caught peeing in the streets and a teen couple was even caught on film having sex a few feet from where children frolic. 

     Locals in Northern Liberties said the radio station's summer block party at the Piazza at Schmidt's a large outdoor plaza, allegedly lacked security and portable toilets, causing hordes of rock fans to turn their yards and cars into open-air toilets. Sounds to me this was not a well-thought out event by Clear Channel, who is normally on top of their game. One mother of two, who lived in the central Philly neighborhood for four years, said she left Saturday's bash early because their were too many wasted teenagers. Wait! Wasted teenagers? So this radio station was condoning underage drinking? Wow! Once she got home, she spent the afternoon watching drunk fans relieve themselves on her home and car. She said, "I get that people pee in public, but hundreds of people peeing on your property, on your house, in front of your children? Girls were dropping their pants and peeing all over our property. It wasn't even five, it wasn't even ten...it was hundreds!" 

     The woman, who also works in marketing, blamed the radio station and the plaza owners, saying she counted only eight to ten port-a-potties for several hundred fans and it was more people she'd ever seen in the piazza. In addition to free music, some locals were treated to a live sex show. One neighbor filmed two young people having sex in a narrow walkway behind some condos near the plaza. The same woman said that the shameless couple ignored shouts to stop and went at it for some 40-minutes just feet from her backdoor. Wow! 40-minutes? That's a pretty long time. She must've been dealing with some whiskey dick!

     Clear Channel, my former employer of many years and owners of Radio 104.5, apologized for the attendees' piggish behavior, but then it became a blame game between the radio company and the property's management company. One party says they asked for more port-a-potties and security, while the other party says strict guidelines were not followed. If you ask me, it sounds like both parties are to blame because even from someone who doesn't know the Philly market that well, it sounds like one big unorganized clusterfuck! This never would have happened at a Clear Channel New York event and even if it did, heads would have rolled. There would be no blame game. Have some respect for people's property for crying out loud. The only cool thing to come out of this is the kids having sex in the alley way! Anyone have that video anywhere?

PISSED OFF!

I thought this story was hilarious and most of my friends who are parents out there will be able to relate to this. What would you do if your child had to go to the bathroom while you were shopping? You would either take them to the bathroom or tell them to hold it, right? Well, what if the store that you were shopping in said that you couldn't use their bathroom? You would probably tell your child to hold it or find a place for them to go. Here's one last question; would you tell them to just pee outside on the street? That's what Philadelphian Caroline Robboy did and she received a $50 citation for it. That's right! Her 2-year-old's bathroom break on a Philadelphia street prompted police to give her a ticket for public urination and a lecture on how to be a parent, which left her pretty 'pissed' off!

Caroline told the news that she was shopping on South Street in Philly with her three children when her youngest, Nathaniel, felt the need to go pee. The clothing store refused to allow the boy to use their bathroom, which by the way, how can you do that to a 2-year-old boy? I can see if it was an adult that you refused lavatory rights to, but a little boy? People in Philly have some balls on them, huh? Anyway, the family darted out of the store and found the nearest light pole because apparently Nathaniel had to go that bad. Caroline remembers telling her son, "Go over to the grassy patch and make pee!" The next thing she knew, she had an officer giving her a summons for public urination. The officer, who apparently witnessed the whole incident, noted that Caroline told the boy to pee on the street and never acknowledged it was an accident. Um, Mr. Philadelphia police officer, that's because it wasn't an accident! The boy had to go and a store refused him the chance to go in a toilet, so this was no accident. No need to acknowledge that there was one. Caroline was given a $50 ticket and she claims a life lesson from the officer. 

 According to Caroline, the officer told her, "I'm doing this for your own protection because God forbid there might have been a pervert out there looking at your son." That statement didn't relieve the enraged mom, who plans on fighting the ticket and insists it's really not about the money. She went on to state that she wants to live in a place that she feels friendly to her and where her children are safe and have positive experiences with police officers. Yeah, well, then you’re in the wrong city, honey! A Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson said that officers can exercise their own discretion when writing tickets. That's nice to know! I know a bunch of Philadelphia's finest and they seem pretty cool to me! Then again, how can you trust any city whose Mayor's last name is Nutter!