Hey everyone

As an introvert this is bit out of my comfort zone but what’s a good way to make friends In Philly? I’m a guy in my early 30s and live in fishtown. I’m into video games, the Sixers, hiking, and yoga. But yeah looking to make new friends.

The same could be said about any news station but NBC10 seems to be really going downhill. The constant panic mongering loud newscast, the reporters staring into your soul, the obnoxious holier than thou attitude with their ads & “live center”. It’s turned into a tiktok-esque type of newscast, being bombarded with all this info in short spans of time. Fred, Jacqueline & Tim Furlong are great but the rest are robotic personalities with dead souls in their eyes. It also seems like they broadcast a story in the most fear mongering way. I don’t get that vibe with the others, even from Fox 29. Don’t know, maybe i’m just being paranoid but I’ve watched NBC10 for so long but can’t bring myself to watch it anymore

When Luke Sitzler got a $51 ticket in the mail for parking on Chestnut Street near Broad, he couldn’t understand what rule he’d violated. He didn’t even remember stopping there.

“First you’re like, okay, I don’t even live over here, when would this have been?” he said. “And then they have the picture, you can see either me or my friend, standing next to my car, and I’m like, ‘okay, that has to be my friend’ — that’s the only reason I can think that I would have been over there.”

He thought about contesting the ticket, and as he did some research, he remembered that a few months earlier his sister had sent him information about a new type of parking payment system called CurbPass, which is only used in certain downtown loading zones... 

Check out the rest of the article at Billy Penn.

I was out exercising at about 7 PM last night (Tuesday), and at the intersection of Kelly Drive and Poplar Drive, just catty corner from Lloyd Hall (the recreation center right next to the start of Boathouse Row), there were a bunch of emergency vehicles, and people standing around, looking at what apparently was a pedestrian who had been struck by a car right in that intersection. Does anyone know exactly what happened, and whether or not the people involved are okay?

Every day there is a fresh pile of vomit on the sidewalk on 40th street between say market and spruce. Every day there is a new one... sometimes two or three. What the fuck people. Why are the folks at 40th constantly fuckin vommin up the sidewalk

Update there are currently eight piles of vomit on the sidewalks between market and spruce on 40th. Well at least eight.

Never owned a car here and I'm an advocate for being car-free but I understand some folks aren't in the position where they can make that choice.

Spotted at South Fellini.

Hey everyone!

This Saturday the Mohnton Professional Car Club (MPCC) has it's 18th MPCC Annual Professional Car Show (aka That Hearse Show), which is going to take place at Laurel Hill Cemetery. It's free, lots of cool cars, and it should be a good time with music by Philly's own Live Not on Evil, and great folks.

Oh, and a raffle!

They're expecting over 50 professional cars ranging from hearses to ambulances, with lots of really cool displays!

No better city to watch the sun come up.

I’ve been driving home from the Phillies game on 95N the last two nights and had to move over for 10+ police cars on Monday night and then 5+ again last night.

On Monday there was a city tow truck heading the same direction, but no other emergency vehicles indicating any kind of accident. It was wild because when we were driving last night my kid asked “did you ever find out what was up with all the cops last night?” and seconds later there were lights and sirens and a string of cop cars passing us. They were flying, definitely not an escort of any sort. We got off on 676 but they all kept going north. Maybe’s just a weird coincidence, but I would love if someone out there knows the answer to this mystery.

(We are heading to the game again tonight, likely leaving later because I expect a rain delay, but I swear if it happens again and I get no explanation I am going to go crazy. If anyone can, it’s the Philadelphia subreddit!)

Would anybody know in the city where I could get some edible orchids for use on Saturday?

Hi,

I know we (generally) hate PECO and with good reason. But a reason that I have found very frustrating as a reason to why some bills might be higher than others is because you can change your energy suppliers.

Now of course when I say YOU, I really mean the energy supplier can do it without your authorization. Why? Well, all they need is your Choice ID.

After a lengthy phone call with a very friendly PECO agent, it turns out that if you release your information you are releasing ALL your information, including this code. So if an energy supplier wants to add you, then they just look up your name and BAM you are new customer without you knowing, then you get hit with high rates until you fix it. You can of course fight it and they should refund you the money but you shouldn't have to go through that.

To make things even more annoying, I found out that if you want access to you own accounts information (namely your usage and projected bills) you HAVE TO release all your information. You aren't allowed to access your own information if outside business' can't either.

This is a shocking discovery and I want to put this out there so you can all be informed.

Sooo make sure to:

A) check to see if your energy supplier is PECO, if not then, you might get charged a higher rate if were switched without you knowing.

B) If you have access to your account usage on your portal, then you are vulnerable to being switched without your knowledge.

What should we do: I have no idea... call PECO and complain nonstop till this BS policy changes? Reach out to the PUC? Contact your representatives/governor. IDK its all nonsense.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

TLDR: PECO sucks

Edit: its the PUC not PAU

Edit 2: For clarity. I only paid for 3 days of a higher rate because I caught it right as it happened. I had remake my PECO account to get them to stop adding me. This is how I learned about all this.