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Cascade Road Swatting Was 911 Hack — The owner of a home in Springfield, Pa. was tackled and handcuffed when he approached the police swarming his backyard last night, June 2. The 60 police officers including a hostage negotiator and members of a SWAT unit had been dispatched to the address in the 100 block of Cascade Road when the dispatchers at the Delaware County 911 center in Middletown reported that three people had been killed in the house and others taken hostage.
The system indicated the call was coming from inside the house. After the owner was tackled, a woman emerged holding a child. Police entered the home and found nothing amiss. The 911 system, however, continued receiving descriptions of violence inside the home.
Police say the residents, a family with three children, appear to be nothing but victims.
The incident cause the evacuation of the neighboring homes along with two homes across the street.
Police Chief Joseph Daly expects to find the culprit within “a day or two.”
Hat tip to Mari A. Schaefer at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Victory Cleaners at Brookside and Springfield roads, Springfield, should reopen in a couple of weeks according to a woman at the sister store on nearby Saxer Avenue.
The landmark store near the Springfield Road trolley station was damaged in a fire Sunday afternoon.
Customer clothes will be taken from the fire damaged store for cleaning at Saxer Avenue and will be able to be claimed when the Springfield Road store opens, according to the woman.
Springfield volunteer firefighters try to save landmark Victory Cleaners on Springfield Road at Brookside Road, 3:30 p.m., today, May 9. Traffic was stopped on Springfield Road between Powell and Rolling roads while the blaze was battled.
Adolph Replaces Civera — The members of the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus, yesterday, elected William Adolph to replace Mario Civera as Appropriations Chairman for the rest of the 2009-2010 legislative session.
Civera, who represents the 164th District, won a seat on Delaware County Council last November and will be resigning from the legislature, according to House GOP Leader Sam Smith of the 66th District.
Adolph represents the 165th District and lives in Springfield.
The holy game of lacrosse — it was cooked up by the Indians to entertain God — was played this morning at Sabold School in Springfield Pa. featuring alumni from Springfield High School teams going back to the Class of ’77 (Jack Gelsomini).
The event was organized by Kyle Sweeney, perhaps Springfield’s most shining star in a sky-full concerning the game. Teams were divided into odds and evens as determined by the year of graduation.
I think the odds won but by the fourth quarter I was letting those under age 49 handle things and lost track of the score.
Thank you, Kyle. May it become a Thanksgiving tradition.
A long-time participant at the just-ended craft show to benefit the band at Cardinal O’Hara High School in Marple Township Pa. told me that for the first time there were thefts at the event.
Now, what was stolen was not money or jewelry but hand-made crafts of the type people buy for unique Christmas gifts and home touches. It looks like an inside job since the thefts happened overnight.
Probably not much comfort to the hard-working victims but they must be pretty good crafters.
A display of crosses has been placed on Springfield Road at Holy Cross Church in Springfield, Pa. with each representing a million surgical abortions that have occurred since attempts to restrict the act were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1973. There are 45 crosses.
Screwups Hail Obama — So this is what we get for the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act? A $3,000 green sign and a solution to a problem that should never have existed and matters worse — at least with regard to things like convenience, traffic and pollution — than it was before a certain government agency tried to fix things.
The sign, which also has an orange top depicting a man digging a ditch and the words “Putting America To Work” went up Sept. 23 at the Springfield Road stop for SEPTA’s Route 101 trolley in Springfield, Pa. SEPTA, btw, never bothered to consider PennDOT’s concerns before starting the project which involved installing traffic-safety gates, removing the traffic-safety gates and changing a decades-old scheme so commuters now must cross the busy highway at least once per round trip, at a spot, mind you, where it is illegal to do so.
And why does Obama think that Americans being forced to earn a living digging ditches is somehow progress? I’d like to see him dig ditches.\
The trolley gates placed at intersections with four highways in Springfield, Delaware County, Pa. were done so by SEPTA despite PennDOT’s recommendation against it, according to State Rep. Bill Adolph (R-165).
The expensive gates are now being removed after snarling traffic for a year.
