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From the Only in Philly Files: Bank Robbing Fans
Last night I had thought that everything had changed. That was wrong. A lot changed, but Philadelphians are still, as a rule, drunken morons.
Some of this was hilarious (I caught someone urinating on Snackbar, whose wall doubles as a a glass window and patrons do not double as rowdy), some was ugly (someone threw a paper stand through a Lucky Brand storefront on Walnut, and I’ve heard reports of a tipped over firetruck) and some was both:
But one fan may have taken his devotion a bit too far when police say he robbed a bank and later allegedly funded a shopping spree for Phillies gear with the stolen cash.
About 10 a.m. yesterday, a man, who police did not identify, entered a PNC Bank on Welsh Road near Roosevelt Boulevard and slipped the teller a demand note.
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About 20 minutes later, cops found the suspect, who police have not identified, a few miles away coming out of the Modell’s Sporting Goods store at the Roosevelt Mall, Cottman and Bustleton avenues.
way too many words on what happened and how it went down, on their way …
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