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The Bucks Co. Bear and 4 Other Local Wild Animals of Note
By Dan McQuade 5/22/2013
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Hide your honey, your porridge and (in reality) your bird feeders and your garbage cans. There's a bear on the loose!
Over the past week, a black bear has been spotted in Lower Bucks County. The LBC, as I like to call it, is more urbanized than your usual bear habitat, meaning everyone is freaking out. The bear was spotted at a Bensalem soccer field, on a Bristol Township lawn, and even in Hulmeville, a town you've probably never even heard of. Things haven't been this exciting in the LBC since the Neshaminy Mall was built.
Philly Archbishop Changes his Mind: Girls CAN Play Football
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 3/14/2013
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Today the Philadelphia Archdiocese decided it had reversed its decision to ban girls from playing football in CYO leagues. Benefitting, along with any girl who wishes to play football, is of course Carolina Pla, the 11-year-old Bucks County girl whose story started this all.
The archdiocese says the decision was made after an "evaluation by coaches, parents, students and medical experts." A panel last month, which voted against co-ed CYO football, did not appear to feature students, parents of players, medical, or legal experts, according to a report in Forbes. The Archdiocese's Director of Communications Kenneth Galvin tells me the decision was
Random Bucks County Man Decides to Expose Himself to Wedding Party
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 3/13/2013
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20, bored, and sitting alone in a Doubletree Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. What else is a boy to do? Watching a wedding taking place in the hotel's courtyard, Chalfont native Samuel James Dengel decided to join the fun.
The mother of the bride told police that Dengel was watching the wedding from his room, naked, with his genitals pressed against the window. Another attendee told police that Dengel had a large tattoo on his back and "placed his buttocks against the glass several times and bent over," according to a police report.
This man's bug shot (here) suggests a person who never
Postal Truck Dumps Mail All Over Highway in Bucks County
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 3/04/2013
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If you live in the Warrington area and don't receive your mail today, here's why: About 50 racks of mail (the official USPS measuring unit, I guess) were splatted across a 100-yard stretch of Rt. 611 after an 18-wheeler apparently dumped them there. From the looks of it, several thousand items were being gathered up from the road and placed back in the truck. See, USPS, this is what happens when you make postal workers all nervous that you're going to cut Saturday delivery. The hands start shaking, the truck loses control, the mail gets lost, and everybody loses. [NBC
Philly Archdiocese Decides Girls Can’t Play Football Because of “Inappropriate Touching”
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/22/2013
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Oh, the irony. A 20-person panel appointed by the Philadelphia Archdiocese has decided to uphold a ban on girls in grades 5-8 from playing CYO football. (The ban stemmed from the case of Bucks County 11-year-old Caroline Pla, who's been on Good Morning America, and elsewhere, pleading her case.) One main reason? Concern over "inappropriate touching." You've got to be kidding me.
One scenario the group was told to picture was a female quarterback putting her hands too close to the posterior of a male center. When asked what that meant, one source inferred the female QB would then be inclined
“Boobies” On the Agenda Today in Philly Federal Court
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/20/2013
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Once all the fire trucks went away after an apparent anthrax scare, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eastern District, got down to business.
A couple of Easton Area School District (EASD) middle school students, Kayla Martinez and Brianna Hawk, made national news in 2010 when their school banned breast-cancer-awareness bracelets bearing the phrase “I ♥ Boobies! (Keep A Breast),” sold for $4 each by the Keep A Breast Foundation. Today, their case was before the U.S. Court of Appeals.
The girls, represented by the ACLU, argued their freedom of speech was being violated. (Kind of like the "U Can Suck our D" guys, except with
Man Steals $55,000 From Parx Casino, Promptly Returns it
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/20/2013
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A man stole $55,000 in blackjack chips from Parx Tuesday afternoon, before turning himself in shame-faced just a couple hours later. Likely after realizing that sitting at home with a bunch of chips doesn't buy you much. And that trying to cash them in at a facility wired with surveillance cameras isn't going to do much good either. For a casino that markets itself to the suburban dad crowd, this sort of goofy, not-quite-glamorous heist seems right up Parx's alley. [Philly.com]
4 Kids in Bucks County-Bound Bus Still Hospitalized in Boston
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/04/2013
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While many of the 42 passengers on a wrecked Bucks County-bound charter bus have made it home safely after a serious crash Saturday, four remain hospitalized in Boston. Matt Cruz, a sophomore at Neshaminy High School, is in critical condition, and may have suffered spinal damage, while three others sustained serious injuries.
The bus, whose West Philadelphia charter company was flagged for several citations in 2011, crashed Saturday night after smashing into a 10-foot overpass; numerous signs were posted warning of low clearance. 35 passengers were injured in total. The bus was ferrying kids to and from Cambridge, Massachusetts as part
Bucks County Sex Abuser Sentenced to 494-982 Years in Prison
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 1/25/2013
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35-year-old ex-tattoo artist Walter Meyerle, a Bucks County man convicted in August of 170 counts of sex crimes against 15 children, was sentenced to at least a half millenium in jail yesterday. Bernie Madoff, for comparison's sake, got 150 years. [Inquirer]
Animal News: Cute Beached Whale Found in Longport; Horse Died on Rider in Bucks Co.
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 1/21/2013
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Earlier today, I informed you of a cat who tripped a wire and caused a power outage for 100 people. To continue an Inauguration Day tradition over here at the Scoop, here's some more news from the animal kingdom.
Today in Longport, a small, cute, beached whale was found on Dog Beach, recovering from what appears to be cuts from a boat propeller. It has been taken to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine.
And in Upper Black Eddy, a woman was walking her horse (or maybe the horse was walking her), when it keeled over and died, trapping her underneath. She
