Philadelphia's teenage demographic is in danger of losing more than their car keys for breaking curfew these days. Turns out if you're a teenager & out after 9pm you could get locked up. The new 9pm curfew was being enforced this weekend in Philly where dozens of teens were arrested for staying out too late. The initiative was apparently started to keep "bands of marauding thugs off the streets." Philly's Mayor Michael Nutter earlier this week called for kids younger than 18 years of age to be in the crib by 9pm on Fridays & Saturdays as an answer to a recent string of violent crimes allegedly perpetrated by teenage mobs. 50 teens in the Center and University City neighborhoods were arrested on Friday. While 12 got got on Saturday night. The authorities are really taking this shit fa' serious. In other parts of the city under 13 year olds must be inside by 10pm while those under 18 have to be in by midnight. Fines can range from $100 to $300 for the kids and up to $500 for parents if their kids choose to repeat the offense. Before now deviants were coordinating attacks & other crimes via twitter & facebook. Attacks on men & women throughout the downtown Philly area were rampant for months. The mayor said its the work of a small group of "complete knuckleheads." He also said, "You've damaged yourself, you've damaged another person, you've damaged your peers and, quite honestly, you've damaged your own race," the 54-year-old mayor, who is black, said at his West Philadelphia church last week.
He also lectured parents in the city's African-American communities about taking responsibility for their children.
"That's part of the problem in the black community. ... We have too many men making too many babies they don't want to take care of and then we end up dealing with your children." So in a nutshell a small number of kids are going completely f@cking "beyond thunderdome" out there and the city is fighting back by establishing a curfew. I'm praying that this is the only action that needs to be taken. C'mon Philly where's the love?? Spotted at nydailynews.com
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