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MedicSBK t1_itl5dco wrote

ABC reported last night that they had two arrests. I wanted the 10 o'clock news on PHL 17 and the streets were pretty much cleared at that point. Great job by the fans.

It was probably the safest that Broad St has been in months.

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FrankGrimesApartment t1_itl5url wrote

Replying to MedicSBK (#201,123)

For the most part. Crowd chanted asshole to the cops but otherwise let them do their job.

The cops also tried to be proactive and warn anyone making that first attempt to climb that theyd get arresteddetained...but they couldnt catch them all.

One climber claimed it was his constitutional right and that once he got on the pole the cop wasn't legally allowed to touch him. I think that might have been the highlight of my night.

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SomeOtherOrder t1_itl7f63 wrote

I went to a show at Underground Arts and you couldn’t even tell there was a celebration going on. Color me shocked…we actually behaved civilly this time.

I won’t expect the same if we win the World Series but still.

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throwawayjoeyboots t1_itl87as wrote

It’s always essentially incident free. We basically never win anything so on the rare occasion when we do, everyone is just happy and joyous. I was on Broad for pretty much the entire time and everyone was in good spirits.

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hoobsher t1_itl8ndd wrote

a guy coming out of a bar on 2nd street in old city got mugged

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powersurge t1_itl8ou6 wrote

Police were sarcastically asking me and my friends to 'Keep it down and not be too rowdy' as we walked by. Everyone seemed to have a calm and good time.

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Surfingtheseas t1_itl9s26 wrote

One of the few times the city bands together in unison and peace. Wish it could always be like this!

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DutchApplePie75 t1_itl9t68 wrote

The poles must have been sufficiently greased.

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pasnow t1_itlbkan wrote

Kudos Philly & PPD!!

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malogan82 t1_itlbw6j wrote

Replying to FrankGrimesApartment (#201,141)

>One climber claimed it was his constitutional right and that once he got on the pole the cop wasn't legally allowed to touch him.

Yes, I believe that was established in the landmark Supreme Court case, In re: Base!, in which the Court overturned a prior matter involving immunity from prosecution.

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Aromat_Junkie t1_itle3z9 wrote

Replying to Hib3rnian (#201,959)

A common mistake, but the actual caselaw refers to "The Floor Is Lava", not Jailbreak. As long as the defendant kept his feet on the pole and off the ground, he's legally untouchable.

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PuzzleheadedOne1428 t1_itle49k wrote

Replying to NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn (#201,735)

Nott really. I mean, we're not assholes, we are just honest. Fans booed Machado and Soto and even cheered Santa. Now, they may be more civil in comparison to Eagles fans but a partial reason is because that base gets so amped up and drunk while tailgating. There's also more alcohol involved, which does away with inhibitions and let's the testosterone flow.

These may be excuses but all Philly sports fans are grouped together. Truth is, we tell it how it is. We don't tolerate softies like Ben Simmons. We will be straight up. Love ya when you're good and criticize when you aren't performing to your potential. We are as honest as they come.

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Dat_Boi_Teo t1_itlfr9f wrote

National narrative in shambles

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pwrdup829 t1_itlgmtf wrote

Because our fans a phucking awesome

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2020-loss t1_itlic6a wrote

Replying to hoobsher (#201,417)

The article is rating that there were no incidents at the celebration, not in the city. A guy got shot 9 times two blocks from me. If anything, there will be a large uptick in crime if they win the series. Opportunists will realize the focus is on that and not the streets.

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DrJawn t1_itlit8n wrote

I'm starting to think greasing the poles is a way to trick us into climbing them, because it's seen as a challenge.

Then everyone is on poles and there's less people flipping cars or something

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LaurenFromNY88 t1_itlixcm wrote

Saving this article so when I see the “Philly fans are out of control ahhhh” comments anywhere else, I can send this. All the videos I saw showed harmless fun! Proud of our city and the Phils!! Ps. I don’t think it’s a coincidence they won during eagles’ bye week. That proves destiny to me!

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BigDeezerrr t1_itllqhd wrote

I much prefer these impromptu mobs to the ones where they do donuts in cars, loot stores, and shoot people.

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Dnvnlp t1_itlmsns wrote

There will be World Peace in Philadelphia for the next two weeks.

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OhShtItsMatt t1_itlmxuk wrote

That's funny, cause I called the cops last night about a bar fight and they never came.

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BellsCantor t1_itlqjgw wrote

We’ve found the solution to crime. Winning sports teams.

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Thecrawsome t1_itlsctl wrote

No cops out on the beat no arrests 🧠🧠🧠

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DutchApplePie75 t1_itlsx53 wrote

Replying to dannygunz (#202,762)

I hear ya but the Super Bowl was something qualitatively different. Part of that is just the fact that football is much more popular/culturally dominant than baseball and part of that is that football generates much stronger emotions.

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allid33 t1_itlvptm wrote

Replying to FrankGrimesApartment (#201,100)

Was that the guy in the Fila shirt at Broad and Sansom? He was up there for ages even after the cops tried to make him come down. They eventually forced the entire crowd south several blocks before they went to get him down, so was curious to see how that all ended.

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OptimusSublime t1_itly75w wrote

I'll be honest. I was unfortunately very out of town last night and kept checking Citizen to see what was going on, and was happy to not see anything crazy during the festivities.

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NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn t1_itly8jt wrote

Replying to PuzzleheadedOne1428 (#201,985)

I’m talking Philly fans in general. We are assholes and we shouldn’t hide from it. It’s what makes us special. We threw D-Cells at JD Drew, we threw snowballs at Santa and Jimmy Johnson, told a 100+ year old woman from Minnesota to go fuck herself. We made fun of Joe Jurevicious’ dead son. Hell, one of us threw up on a small child from our own fanbase out of pure spite. To run away from the asshole label is to reject your own humanity. Embrace it and be the asshole we all are.

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ImPetarded t1_itlyawt wrote

Translation: if you don't report it, it didn't happen.

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danimalDE t1_itlznik wrote

No need to party just yet, wait until we win the series, we’ve been here before….

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ColdJay64 OP t1_itlzp0t wrote

Replying to OptimusSublime (#204,006)

Why? This is exactly why psychologists say that Citizen isn’t healthy and creates anxiety.

https://www.mic.com/life/the-citizen-app-is-a-relentless-anxiety-trigger-18790347/amp

““If you have this constant hypervigilance, that your nervous system has to have because something bad is [seemingly] always happening, that’s problematic for anxiety,” says Elizabeth Cohen, a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating people with anxiety disorders, commenting on apps like Citizen. “It’s totally overestimating the probability of things.””

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OptimusSublime t1_itm0prc wrote

Replying to ColdJay64 (#204,197)

Maybe I overestimated how often I checked, it was like twice, honestly. And I have a healthy respect for the app, I have seen those studies, and it doesn't impact me nearly as much as I am told it should. 99% of the time the things that posted are so far away as to be meaningless to me, and the rest of the time its funny shit like someone was seen with a rake or something like that. There have been instances where I have heard gunshots nearby and checked the app for the express purpose of chatting with other people about it and to get more info if and when it becomes available. I'm not burying my face in the app and hyperventilating about every single push notification.

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FUN_LOCK t1_itm13ga wrote

Replying to DutchApplePie75 (#201,562)

Even the morning after the super bowl the cop I asked about some of the weirder things on the police scanner summed it up with "There were some weird reports on the radio that turn out to be nothing and of course a few really stupid incidents you hear about on the news but it was mostly just crowd control. The overwhelming majority of people were just having a good time."

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dannygunz t1_itm19x8 wrote

Replying to DutchApplePie75 (#203,501)

I don't disagree I just mean that having the championship won in the city is explosive. There will be 60,000+ people at the stadium and surrounding area along with all of the people in the city spilling on the streets.

Even just anecdotally the 2008 phillies WS celebration felt way more chaotic than the Eagles super bowl win.

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SynthExe t1_itm2z2x wrote

There was a guy last night that I may or may not have helped get onto a pole in front of city hall. After the bicycle patrols asked him to get down they started taking selfies with people in front of the damn poles once they blocked them off, seriously the greatest damn night I've had in this city in a while

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HotjockGYO t1_itm4lc0 wrote

Credit to Phillies fan and people in Philadelphia

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soylentcoleslaw t1_itm5d7r wrote

Replying to JointsMcdanks (#203,615)

I remember the day in between game 5 parts 1 and 2 having snow. Those few days were absolutely miserably cold, that's when they debuted those official ball caps with the ear flaps on them because the players were freezing.

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Rivster79 t1_itm71op wrote

It’s cuz we’re saving it for the World Series win

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Toidal t1_itm89fl wrote

Replying to DrJawn (#202,476)

The secretly grease only the top quarter of the poles. Then when someone gets hurt, the crowd has to clear out for the ambulance to get through or look like insensitive jackasses on social media.

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cagonzalez321 t1_itm8wyb wrote

Can they do whatever they did last night for the rest of the year? So Phila can be incident free always??

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and_another_username t1_itmafcl wrote

I got fingered behind a wawa. I would absolutely NOT call this incident-free

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skepticones t1_itmb9p6 wrote

I think the rain helped. Nobody is getting up a greased traffic pole in the rain.

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ShinyHardcore t1_itmlk6r wrote

City needed this. Can realistically see 3 Major Championships this year as a city with the Birds and Sixers once they get right. Amazing time for Philly

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czykr t1_itmlq8o wrote

My friend was pushed to the ground by a cop and kicked in the ribs, threatened to have her teeth kicked in. So idk ab this

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agpc t1_itmnf8z wrote

Wow that is surprising.

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sn0m0ns t1_itmo09z wrote

Replying to ColdJay64 (#204,197)

Depends on which neighborhood you live in. It's actually pretty useful if you have people in your neighborhood getting robbed at gunpoint right when you're about to go walk your dog.

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MeEvilBob t1_itmqjbj wrote

For what it's worth, you could set a PPD car on fire in front of their main headquarters and they'd say all they heard was crickets.

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Irish_Blond_1964 t1_itmu09r wrote

….as they looted the liquor stores next to all the precincts. Hired hookers and retrieved blow from their intended arresties. The car bonfires lasted well into the night. The next roll call went pretty quick with numerous callouts.

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101Alexander t1_itmuqrk wrote

That's because different poles were greased that night.

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TapWater28 t1_itn2dzb wrote

Replying to JointsMcdanks (#203,615)

2008 was far and away the rowdiest. I remember seeing multiple fights, cars tipped, and stuff getting burned. Some idiot was also firing off Roman candles at Broad and Shunk. One of them hit a father's back who was holding his daughter. The cops were also really aggressive that night. One tried gripping me up because he thought I threw a bottle at him. Thankfully, two other cops came over and told him that it wasn't me.

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JesusOfBeer t1_itnafte wrote

Yeah, the PPD didn't want to risk possibly committing police brutality on any of their anti-Krasner supporters from DELCO

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ToffeeFever t1_itnievi wrote

Wait for the fun to begin when they win the World Series.

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RJ5R t1_itnllv6 wrote

Funny how the twerkers actually had something to twerk about

And they were nowhere to be seen. Thankfully

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Luke-HW t1_itnvk12 wrote

I think the crime wave might be part of it. People don’t wanna act rowdy and get blasted if that means walking home in the dark.

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CommunicationTime265 t1_itnzmbp wrote

What does that exactly mean though? Just in certain parts of the city, or city wide?

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throwawaythedo t1_itplszn wrote

Replying to TapWater28 (#208,302)

I think the difference could be because just 3 weeks ago, during regular season, The Phillies weren’t even on the map. In 2008, regular season tickets were hard to come by and everyone in the city had time to jump on the bandwagon. Prior to winning the Penant, a lot of Philly had no clue that the Phils were making a run - passion is mostly reserved for life-long fans, who are generally laid back. Add a year of passion to the city, along with folks who are simply excited by the excitement and you’re looking at a different crowd. I could be off, but that’s my intuition. GO PHILS!!!

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jimbosdayoff t1_itqxpmi wrote

Biggest miracle of the century for Philadelphia sports

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