What do you do you when you’re the mayor of a city with one of the nation’s highest murder rates? Well if you are John F. Street, mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, you wait in line on and off for 15 hours to be one of the first to purchase the new Apple iPhone. Check this:
Mayor John F. Street was among the first to get a coveted iPhone on Friday, waiting in line, on and off, for almost 15 hours and forced to defend the effort when a passer-by asked about the city’s skyrocketing murder rate.
Street’s wait on the sidewalk outside the store was anything but uneventful. He wore large Bose headphones hooked up to an iPod Nano - one of three iPods he owns - around his neck while seated on a lawn chair.
He left his spot around 11:30 a.m., soon after a 22-year-old man sporting a mohawk asked him, “How can you sit here with 200 murders in the city already?”
The mayor replied: “I’m doing my job.”
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I know it kinda looks bad, but I mean the guy is human. He ain’t gotta be at the office every hour of the day…
The woman was killed Friday night on the Mind Scrambler at Playland Amusement Park in Rye, N.Y., just north of New York City, Westchester County Police spokesman Kieran O’Leary said.
Emergency workers responded quickly, “but there wasn’t very much anybody could do for her,” O’Leary said. The woman, who was in her 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene around 9:30 p.m., he said.
Police were investigating early Saturday and released few details about the accident. The woman’s name was not released because her family had not been notified.
The indoor attraction spins riders around in a darkened tent with flashing lights. It was the scene of another deadly accident May 22, 2004. Stephanie Dieudonne, 7, wriggled free of the restraining bar on one of the cars, knelt on the seat and fell soon after the ride started, according to investigators.
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Yall be careful at these amusement parks this summer. These accidents are getting insane, parks need to up the safety regulations.
Here is the latest video from Amerie, “Gotta Work.” It’s the second single from her upcoming album Because I Love It. I’m not really feelin the song, but the video is HOT! She lookin fine and the choreography is actually on point. Maybe this one will do better than her last single “Take Control.”
This still from Ciara’s new video for ‘Can’t Leave Him Alone,’ posted by Miss Info earlier this week, fueled the fire for rumors that she and 50 Cent are togther. She also sat next to 50 at the BET Awards this past Tuesday. Is 50 hittin’ it? I hope not cus that’s my girl, back the hell off 50! LOL… Here are some more pics from the “Can’t Leave Him Alone” video shoot, which were spotted at take 5.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony debuted the video for the latest single this week, “Lil L.O.V.E.” featuring Mariah Carey and Bow Wow. I just don’t know if this single is a strong enough follow up after the HUGE success of “I Tried”. What do yall think?
Unless you’ve been sitting under a big ass rock this summer, you know that 17-year-old Sean Kingston’s single “Beautiful Girls” has been blowing up the airways on pop, hip-hop, and R&B stations across the country. He finally released a video for the track, which you can check out above. This song is HOT! You can get more info on Sean Kingston by checkin out his myspace.
