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H00die5zn t1_ivb23qr wrote

Some people just suck.

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Primordial_Cumquat t1_ivb4blf wrote

My first thought was “why?”.

Me second though was “because they are assholes”.

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ColdJay64 t1_ivb53kd wrote

Screw people who do stuff like this. I truly want to know their thought process.

I saw someone tagging a building this summer and asked why, he got upset and yelled “because it’s legal.” Idk how that justifies destroying things to anyone.

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Wuz314159 t1_ivb6iue wrote

Now imagine if the Union/Phillies had won.

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mrhedgefund t1_ivb8wdm wrote

Are there no cameras along there? I doubt anyone would do anything, but at least we'd see the person/people responsible.

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Purrogi t1_ivb9vhp wrote

At least they can be saved. A few years ago an organization planted trees in the island thingie down the middle of 3 blocks of Levick St. within a week someone had cut some of them nearly in half at the trunk.

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pup12345 t1_ivbiqvt wrote

People stink. Thank you for keeping that block beautiful

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Gjardeen t1_ivblw4l wrote

Is it okay to replant them if you see this? I've done that a few times, especially with bushes like these.

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Fine_With_It_All t1_ivbmkbg wrote

Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.

Wyatt Earp: What does he need?

Doc Holliday: Revenge.

Wyatt Earp: For what?

Doc Holliday: Bein' born.

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GioBiscotti t1_ivbq1go wrote

I think I know who did this! About 2 weeks ago, I was walking over by Jefferson in Old City and saw a man pulling plants out of their planters and throwing them on the ground. He kept mumbling, "This is so cool. I've never done this before," over and over to himself. I'd be willing to bet it was the same guy.

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Gjardeen t1_ivbqqa8 wrote

Replying to shaneroneill (#458,671)

I didn't mean that you needed to do it or that I needed to do it, it's just something that I've done a couple of times and I don't know enough about plants to know if I'm killing them.

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jpop237 t1_ivbwhjj wrote

Sociopath. People who do this are sociopaths.

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JWTowsonU t1_ivc778r wrote

Can’t have nice things in this city.

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DJRoombasRoomba t1_ivc9lho wrote

I can tell you who this most likely is. There's a woman who clearly has been in the midst of a psychiatric episode the past few weeks who stomps around Center City screaming at people at the top of her lungs. You can hear her from multiple blocks away. She also flips over every single one of those metal boxes that they used to put newspapers in. She also will walk down the street violently pulling on all the doors she encounters, locked or not.

I'm like 98% sure this was her.

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Spelt666 t1_ivccp1d wrote

Squirrels are getting buff

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marxistbot t1_ivcjhb6 wrote

Replying to LakeSun (#459,642)

Hmm yeah former addict and pusher with a barely controlled mood disorder. Please tell me more how mental wellness is needed for basic respect and empathy

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CB_700_SC t1_ivckr62 wrote

I saw an obviously mentally ill person destroying planters on Chestnut a few months back. She could be back at it.

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cray0508 t1_ivcm4jd wrote

I live in the building connected to Victory. They did the same thing down 18th Street in front of City Tap as well. I'm pretty sure it was actually a homeless person who must have had some kind of psychotic break/outburst. Sigh. :(

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Cinoclav t1_ivcog21 wrote

Sheesh. Friends and I were at Victory last night. Left before the final inning as we didn’t want to be around to see what happened when they lost. Good timing I guess.

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cfh294 t1_ivcrcc7 wrote

Replying to CB_700_SC (#459,954)

That lady is currently screaming at the top of her lungs near Rittenhouse. I can hear her off in the distance. Truly insane that it’s just accepted that wildly mentally ill people live like this and that we have to deal with it

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gritty_rox t1_ivcw6yc wrote

Somebody was doing this in manayunk also

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toss_it_out_tomorrow t1_ivda5wz wrote

Replying to Bass_is_UVBlue (#459,191)

Yep, that's totally true. I was a seriously bad teenager and I still never did shit like this. I grew up in a neighborhood that slowly started going bad and looking worse and worse every single day and it made me so mad. I would never destroy something pretty no matter how much of an asshole teen I was.

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woo545 t1_ivdmauw wrote

Replying to Bass_is_UVBlue (#459,191)

It's not necessarily doing stuff to be an asshole, though. A male's frontal cortex doesn't finish developing until the late 20's. This results in teen boys doing incredibly stupid, impulsive things and not realizing what they've done until after the act has been completed (if at all). It's exponentially worse with each teen boy added to the mix.

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p_britt35 t1_ivduij0 wrote

Is this why we can't have nice things? This is why we can't have nice things.

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-zero-joke- t1_ivdyxhr wrote

Man, why do people have to be mean to plants?

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-zero-joke- t1_ivdz1r3 wrote

Replying to woo545 (#461,665)

I'm a high school teacher in Philly, I see a lot of kids. I've taught in urban, suburban, rural, public, and charter schools. Never private. The type of kid that would do this is exceptionally rare. The kids are by and large mostly alright.

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BeerNirvana t1_ivefi6g wrote

That sucks. Did the Braumeister run out again?

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purplemagnetism t1_ivegg0v wrote

This is a homeless person suffering some delusions.

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cdmtthws t1_ivenbse wrote

The mandrakes were ready.

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Samuel__2019 t1_iveoj5u wrote

Seen the homeless on market street doing that lots of times

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Fleddwiss t1_ivevllo wrote

I have seen people do this before!! Even while I was walking behind them. So they don't even care if people see them. (I did wait until they left and re planted the plant) like come on we don't have man parks in Philadelphia so when people put plants outside I really appreciate it:)

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Brewedat t1_ivfsiwl wrote

That’s frustrating 😒

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woo545 t1_ivgek0y wrote

Replying to -zero-joke- (#462,101)

I'm just saying that boys just do the dumbest things imaginable when left to their own devices. Things where you just like, "really?! wtf were you thinking?" Most of those things, you snicker behind their back. Other times, you get angry about how callous they were. When in the end, they weren't thinking.

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Squadooch t1_ivj8zb9 wrote

Replying to DJRoombasRoomba (#461,657)

Totally ridiculous. Police just will not do their jobs. (To clarify, I mean their job of taking her into custody and bringing her to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation/hold, not arresting her. Her being allowed to just behave this way isn’t helping anyone, including her.)

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