A Philadelphia gas station owner fed up with incessant crime threatening his employees and customers hired heavily armed security guards to watch over his business.
Neil Patel, operator of a Karco gas station at Broad and Clearfield streets in North Philadelphia, recruited Pennsylvania S.I.T.E Agents clad with Kevlar vest and AR-15s or shotguns.
This kind of happened in Chicongo when people started going back to work after the Chinese lung aids. Car jacking and robbery was so bad at a major gas station that they called in swat so people could fill up and not be threatened. Buddha
If you haven't seen it, I would like to introduce you to the Box O' Truth. Real world penetration testing with rifles and pistols of various calibers on wall board, automobiles, and other objects. Surprisingly, 5.56 typically penetrates the same or less than PCCs, which is one of the reasons why PDs have switched away from PCCs and subguns, plus the added close range lethality of 5.56 in CQB situations. With the proper load, 5.56 is far more lethal and penetrates less than pistol cartridges...but don't trust me, do a bit of research.
back when I still live in that shithole, I was strapped all the time. and I kept a AR carbine with a 30 round mag load beside me. up stairs there was a Mossberg 590 loaded with 00 buck. and the year before we moved away from there, a guy was shot and robbed of his chink food and 20 some odd bucks one night. right outside the house. not only did we hear the shot, we also saw the flash thru the window blinds. a fun place to live then, from everything I had heard and read it has only gotten a lot worse.
I was raised in the suburbs of Philly. It's so sad to see what's going on there now. Thankfully, I live 30 miles away on 2+ acres in the woods. Good for that guy though - until one of his hires kills someone and he loses his business.
Lessee - 3 consecutive Fridays in 1983 at Temple University, the capitol of Shitholia: I was a block from the scene of a random student murder on campus, in a bank about a block from campus while it was held up, and eating at a Wendy's on campus while it was held up. My parents rightfully declared that to be my last semester at Temple. Even back then it was crazy.
People who were in Philly 10 years ago are saying it's bad now. I shipped out of Philly up until 10 years ago. My employer has docks there and an office. It was a 6 hour drive back to Boston where I lived at the time, and so when my tour on the boat was up, I used to drive home. About 1 in 3 of us either had been recce'd for a carjacking or robbery at local gas stations, or had been approached. I was one of the lucky ones. Worst I ever did was have to adjust my holster so the guy could see it. Several friends had to draw theirs over the years. One guy, a good ol' boy from West VA, who's 6' 6", damn near got arrested for beating a would-be-carjacker so bad that the guy woke up simple. Seems to me the problem of poor enforcement and lots of violence is not new in Philly, just the demographics of the citizens are.
It won't be long before we start seeing people being rammed and carjacked at gun point on the highway like in south America or south Africa. The motorcycle muggers have been at it for a while in NYC and LA.
This kind of happened in Chicongo when people started going back to work after the Chinese lung aids. Car jacking and robbery was so bad at a major gas station that they called in swat so people could fill up and not be threatened.
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What ever works.....works.
ReplyDeleteNot real AR15 rifles. 9mm PCC's. Nothing says overpenetration like 5.56 in an urban environment full of civilians in cars and gas pumps.
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't seen it, I would like to introduce you to the Box O' Truth. Real world penetration testing with rifles and pistols of various calibers on wall board, automobiles, and other objects. Surprisingly, 5.56 typically penetrates the same or less than PCCs, which is one of the reasons why PDs have switched away from PCCs and subguns, plus the added close range lethality of 5.56 in CQB situations. With the proper load, 5.56 is far more lethal and penetrates less than pistol cartridges...but don't trust me, do a bit of research.
Deleteback when I still live in that shithole, I was strapped all the time. and I kept a AR carbine with a 30 round mag load beside me. up stairs there was a Mossberg 590 loaded with 00 buck.
ReplyDeleteand the year before we moved away from there, a guy was shot and robbed of his chink food and 20 some odd bucks one night. right outside the house. not only did we hear the shot, we also saw the flash thru the window blinds. a fun place to live then, from everything
I had heard and read it has only gotten a lot worse.
Times have changed. It was Brotherly Love-ville when the Ginzos were running the place
DeleteI was raised in the suburbs of Philly. It's so sad to see what's going on there now. Thankfully, I live 30 miles away on 2+ acres in the woods. Good for that guy though - until one of his hires kills someone and he loses his business.
ReplyDeleteLessee - 3 consecutive Fridays in 1983 at Temple University, the capitol of Shitholia: I was a block from the scene of a random student murder on campus, in a bank about a block from campus while it was held up, and eating at a Wendy's on campus while it was held up. My parents rightfully declared that to be my last semester at Temple. Even back then it was crazy.
ReplyDeletePeople who were in Philly 10 years ago are saying it's bad now.
ReplyDeleteI shipped out of Philly up until 10 years ago. My employer has docks there and an office. It was a 6 hour drive back to Boston where I lived at the time, and so when my tour on the boat was up, I used to drive home. About 1 in 3 of us either had been recce'd for a carjacking or robbery at local gas stations, or had been approached. I was one of the lucky ones. Worst I ever did was have to adjust my holster so the guy could see it. Several friends had to draw theirs over the years. One guy, a good ol' boy from West VA, who's 6' 6", damn near got arrested for beating a would-be-carjacker so bad that the guy woke up simple.
Seems to me the problem of poor enforcement and lots of violence is not new in Philly, just the demographics of the citizens are.
It won't be long before we start seeing people being rammed and carjacked at gun point on the highway like in south America or south Africa. The motorcycle muggers have been at it for a while in NYC and LA.
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