Anybody living in or visiting Fairmount needs to be aware of a situation we have in the neighborhood currently.

A group of four young (14-18) African-American males has been making the rounds in the neighborhood for the last week or so. They have assaulted two people - one on Sunday night at 24th & Parrish, the other Monday around 26th & Aspen. The assaults basically involved a completely unprovoked punch to the face. Monday's assault was particularly alarming because it occurred as the victim was getting off a bus at 5:30 p.m., i.e. rush hour, when the streets are fairly busy.

Please be aware that when you're out walking and you see a group of kids (especially if one is noticeably taller than the other, as is the case with this group - also one was riding a bike) you need to steer clear of them and, if they're acting suspiciously, call 911 immediately.

Interesting. I was riding my motorcycle the other night around 25&Parish when ~4 14-18 y/o kids walked into the street (directly in my path) and put their hands up like tough guys. I slowed down, and the tallest kid came walking at me real fast....so I just revved it pulled my front wheel up like a psycho. Fortunately he jumped out of the way and his buddies scattered. Punks.

I hate to ask, but were these white kids or black? There's a group of kids that often hang out at that intersection, but they're pretty much all white.

Black kids. I usually see the group of white kids at that corner (last night for example) but this time was different. I guess they do not like British motorcycles

This might be unrelated but in June, two black kids, 14-18 years old, one taller than the other, one on a bike, other on a push scooter were terrorizing girls in University City. Their mo was to wait until the girl would walk onto a deserted block, walk from behind, grab hair if possible, and punch the girl. They would then take stuff, especially cell phones. It seems that the police have to tread carefully around here since they are young black guys and the Penn police can't take bad press. As a result, they have to actually catch the guys in action or wait for a victiim id. Problem is the victims were attacked from behind and they can't finger them out of a lineup so it sounds like they got away.

Maybe that's the same group that whacked me upside the head with a block of wood as I was walking on North Broad near Master earlier this year. Maybe they got bored of Broad and moved on to greener pastures.

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that's possible. money on them being from north philly. there's trouble up in them there hills.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the armed hold-ups earlier this summer:

http://citypaper.net/articles/2004-08-26/cb3.shtml


It's sad my first phillyblog post isn't about a happier topic. Maybe I'll go post something in the food section now.

Great......More kids to be suspicious of in this area. I am a female and ride a motorcycle so this concerns me greatly. The white kids hanging out at the corner of 25th and Parrish seem to be mostly harmless from what I have observed. One night last month I heard a scuffle outside my window that sounded like a group of kids having some words late one night. It appeared to be a white group and a black group of kids fighting. Anyone else hear this?? I live on 25th between Parrish and Poplar.

In Richmond, VA... a 65 y/o man was robbed by an 80 y/o man on Wednesday. :what_is_:

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