After the Phillies won the World Series, thousands of fans poured out in the streets of downtown Philadelphia and celebrated in an extremely peaceful manner. Of course, we only remember the idiots. Unfortunately for those who like to park in the street, a favorite pastime among celebrating idiots is flipping over cars.
We saw them in action last week, and in the video above you can see one poor guy dealing with the aftermath. As the car owner explained on his blog, since he wasn't able to afford an insurance policy that covered vandalism, the drunken decision made by a handful of fans has left him completely screwed. So he's asking for help:
So I was thinking...
There was alot of people on Broad Street last night. If all the people who were hanging out near Broad and Washington (where the car was flipped) gave me ten dollars I could probably buy a new car... or if all the people who actually flipped my car gave me a thousand dollars that could work too.
You can go to his blog and make a donation via PayPal. Hopefully enough fans, even if they weren't even out celebrating that night, will feel bad for the guy and toss him a few bucks.
When a regular city wins a championship, they celebrate. When Philadelphia wins one, they burn the city down. Philly Riots chronicles a city finally pushed over the edge.
Alternate title, if only the gag weren't overused: Phillies Phans Phlip Cars Phor Phun!
In the light of day, with the hangover subsiding and memories from before blacking out re-entering the consciousness, a lot of fans in Philly are realizing just how stupid they acted last night. Sadly, too many fans cross the line from "just plain dumb" to "just plain cruel." It's dumb to climb an extremely tall traffic sign; it's cruel to try maiming a guy climbing said sign by chucking a bottle of vodka at his face. Or, like the video above: it's dumb to jump on some stranger's car, but it's downright cruel to flip it completely over. (via WW & PWD)
When a regular city wins a championship, they celebrate. When Philadelphia wins one, they burn the city down. Philly Riots chronicles a city finally pushed over the edge.
Just when you think Philadelphians can't be any more whacked out about their sports teams, just when you start to believe that maybe this whole Philly World Series thing will be kind of calm, well, some guy decided to go and rob a bank in order to purchase Phillies merchandise.
But one fan may have taken his devotion a bit too far when police say he robbed a bank and later allegedly funded a shopping spree for Phillies gear with the stolen cash.
About 10 a.m. yesterday, a man, who police did not identify, entered a PNC Bank on Welsh Road near Roosevelt Boulevard and slipped the teller a demand note.
[...]About 20 minutes later, cops found the suspect, who police have not identified, a few miles away coming out of the Modell's Sporting Goods store at the Roosevelt Mall, Cottman and Bustleton avenues.
Nothing says "staying classy" like hijacking a bank in order to hop on a bandwagon. No, seriously, there's nothing cool about breaking the law just to pretend your a Phillies fan because they're winning the World Series.
Also, what makes a guy think that this is somehow going to improve his life in any fashion? And, alternately, if you're going to rob a bank, don't you immediately get as far away from said bank as possible and then use the cash to purchase a ticket to the game? Classy and smart.
When a regular city wins a championship, they celebrate. When Philadelphia wins one, they burn the city down. Philly Riots chronicles a city finally pushed over the edge.
While calling Philly citizens out for their early World Series parade plans, we were besieged by kind words like "HEY! &#%!FACE -- how can you say Philly fans are rioters?!?!?!!!1" and "YOURZE A BLOGGER FOR LIVES, WILL BRINZON!!?" So it's encouraging to get (relative) proof that Phillie fans are in fact doing stupid and dangerous things. Like climbing traffic poles and getting beaned in the head by what appears to be a Grey Goose bottle.
Yeah. So how you like us now. (Disclaimer: Yes, I am aware that all people who live in Philadelphia are not represented by this idiot, and I hope he's alright.)
When a regular city wins a championship, they celebrate. When Philadelphia wins one, they burn the city down. Philly Riots chronicles a city finally pushed over the edge.
Google has this awesome laboratory thing (Trends) going on where they tell you what's hot and spicy in the internet world. Clocking in at number three today? "Phillies Parade." And number five? "Phillies World Series Parade."
That's right, the city of Philadelphia and its denizens of wonderful Philly fans are getting a touch premature with their celebration plans. It's kind of understandable, but only in the way in which the Chicago Cubs were talking about what it would be like to win a World Series this year ... before the postseason started.
When a regular city wins a championship, they celebrate. When Philadelphia wins one, they burn the city down. 
When a regular city wins a championship, they celebrate. When Philadelphia wins one, they burn the city down. 
