Yup..touched it in grade school. It wasn't roped off when we were little either..think it was somewhere around 2nd grade-that would've been around 76/77. They hadn't moved it at that point either. The rope came first..I forget what year they did that, but pretty sure it was when they moved it. Completely cutting off access to it didn't happen til more recently tho.

Is that what I was hearing??

Unfortunately, SPCA, Fire Dept, etc...all the places people think they should call in these circumstances will not do anything. Post to PHL Community Cats on Facebook, or some other, local, cat/pet pages. There are usually people there who are willing/able to help or get help for cats in distress like this. It pretty much always falls to the rescues & local community to help out, sadly.

Oh, another favorite..taking my scaffolding ladder off of MY side roof (I had been out there doing some siding repairs) that they had never asked or had permission to be on & putting it in the yard of the house they were working on, & the owner pulling the whole she thought it was theirs b/s & didn't have them put it back, I just had it handed back over my yard wall. Contactors & developers do whatever tf they want to do here, basically b/c they know they can & will get away w/it. The city only protects property owners while they're places are under development. After that, you're on your own.

I live in a row home. I have had contractors & developers encroach onto my property, w/out permission, more times than I can count..guys on my roof from both sides, guys in our yard from the back & both sides, huge construction vehicles driving over or parking on my sidewalk out front, etc...etc...etc....& If lifting & underpinning your house & foundation WITH YOU IN IT FFS, doesn't count as 'encroaching' on your property, then I just don't know wth does. (& No, I absolutely am not kidding)

Yup. Or they'll time their work for holidays, when city inspectors' offices are closed-they've done that on multiple properties around here. By the time anyone gets around to doing anything their work is pretty much done.

Really? I lost track of how many times I went out & lost my shit on those assholes. (As well as all the other crap you're supposed to do) & yet here I am w/a cracked foundation, front steps, doors & windows that needed to be reset, etc...& thanks to city laws at that time, no recourse. But please, do go on & tell me all about my experience w/this shit...

I swore they were parked over by Stateside at one point

& the police don't do shit, they tell you to call L&I, who don't do shit, they tell you you have to go before the zoning board, etc...who don't do shit, & so on & so on & so on . & By the time all these city agencies who are supposed to be protecting you are done giving you the runaround, the contractor/developers are done doing whatever shit they were doing that they shouldn't have been doing in the 1st place & you & your property are screwed. Wanna guess how I know??

They've been closed since the pandemic shut downs.

It is.

Yup. This is the place!! & If they don't have what you want? They'll usually try to order it for you. The only place I've been to in recent years in Philly that has any clue what they're actually talking about/selling too.

B/C they obvi thought we needed more.

Try turning your phone to airplane mode, as soon as article/link opens. All of the images/video may not load, but the text usually does. Works for others as well, not just the Inky. Happy paywall jumping!!

Really? I know they have the bins up front, but I didn't realize they take kitchen type compost as well!

Sweet!!

I am in S.Philly! I did not know this!! Thank you!!!

1/2 the time, they just toss our recycling in w/the trash, dep on weather & how far behind they are. & I'm not convinced the stuff doesn't all get unloaded in the same place at the dump either. It sucks. We should be recycling damn near everything ffs...

We had smallish metal cans, lids closed pretty tight. (They still sell those things) Critters getting into it was never an issue.

Yep. But they all charge$$. Many in Philly who would LOVE to participate - myself included - really cannot afford the extra monthly expense. There used to be a separate garbage pickup-you put your scraps, etc...out in a smallish metal can, they came either day before or day after normal trash collection, if I remember correctly. Thing is, it wasn't the city doing it-it was private farms, mostly in Jersey, who came to collect the stuff. They used it for animal feed & fertilizer.

I like the way you think.