October 27, 2005

Breaking: Penn students batshit insane

A Penn undergrad was mugged on Walnut between 40th and 41st last night at around 9 p.m. Pretty disconcerting stuff, especially since, you know, that's right near where I spent pretty much four straight years at the newspaper offices.

But, you know, at the start of every school year there are muggings of students, because people apparently feel they're easy targets. Eh, they are Penn kids.

Whenever somebody gets mugged on campus -- the other day, it happened at 6 p.m. right near some of the highrise dorms -- the commenters on the Daily Pennsylvanian articles explode with chants that Penn hasn't done enough, that Penn has done too much, that the paper has racist editors for printing such crime news and/or that the student should have been armed.

And here's a prize-winning argument from a Wharton student:

or is creating the Penn Minutemen the correct answer? What if we got heavily (legally) armed teams of Penn students to patrol 40th and 41st streets on certain nights? It worked in Arizona, anyone want to try it in Philly?

Ladies and gentlemen, one of your future leaders of America!

Woman robbed at 40th and Walnut St. [DP]
Sept. 7: Proof that Penn kids are wimps

Posted by D-Mac on October 27, 2005 02:36 PM
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