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WTF Philly? Proposed ban on bulletproof glass.

Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:32 am
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
18911 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:32 am
This sounds like something our illustrious Mayor would come up with.

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Philadelphia is one step closer to getting rid of bulletproof glass in many of its small businesses as part of a larger effort to crack down on loitering, public urination and potential drug sales -- but it's triggered backlash from the shopkeepers.

The city's Public Health and Human Services Committee passed a bill that enables Philadelphia's Department of Licenses and Inspections to regulate the bullet-resistant barricades that stand between customers and cash registers in many neighborhood corner stores.


The City Councilwomans reasoning is a joke.

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Bass said the bulletproof glass and partitions at some of these businesses are a concern of the city’s health department, as if a customer is choking or having an allergic reaction, a barrier should not stand in the way of safety. She also addressed the security concerns. “Thousands of businesses operate in the same neighborhoods with no Plexiglass,” she told Fox News, mentioning stores like Rite-Aid and barber shops. “I’ve never been to a bar with Plexiglass.”


This is on par with more street lights will make less crime. Avoid the issue and blame extraneous factors.
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Posted by lynxcat
Member since Jan 2008
24156 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:35 am to
It will pass and then a shop owner who was forced to get rid of his glass will die. And, the law will switch back.
Posted by Boudreaux35
BR
Member since Sep 2007
21517 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:35 am to
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Philadelphia is one step closer to getting rid of bulletproof glass in many of its small businesses as part of a larger effort to crack down on loitering, public urination and potential drug sales


So, getting rid of bulletproof glass reduces pissing outside? I must have lost some valuable brain cells lately because I can't figure out that connection at all.
Posted by Bunta
Member since Oct 2007
12241 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:36 am to
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Bass said the bulletproof glass and partitions at some of these businesses are a concern of the city’s health department, as if a customer is choking or having an allergic reaction, a barrier should not stand in the way of safety.

I wasn't aware they didn't have doors in Philly.
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
84991 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:40 am to
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Fox News previously reported that the bill, put forward by Councilwoman Cindy Bass, focuses on “stop-and-go” convenience stores that act more like bars than the restaurants they are licensed to be, selling beer and shots of liquor over the counter and attracting crowds that end up becoming public nuisances, according to lawmakers.

Pennsylvania state law mandates businesses with restaurant licenses should regularly sell food and have tables and chairs to seat 30 people. But some businesses keep their seating locked up or out of reach and the grills shut down, selling little more than alcohol and forcing customers to wander outside.

Bass told Fox News that in “more than 90 percent of cases they are breaking the law in terms of operating outside the requirement of their license.”


That makes sense and would be a problem, but I still have no clue what bullet proof glass elimination would solve.
Posted by Upperdecker
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2014
30580 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:43 am to
Idiots legislating for the criminals. Just like in BR
Posted by Steadyhands
Slightly above I-10
Member since May 2016
6814 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:44 am to
None of that makes any sense...you did say woman in there somewhere I thought...makes sense now.

Just kidding....


















About it making sense now.
Posted by dewster
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
25365 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:46 am to
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a barrier should not stand in the way of safety


A barrier is safety. This story reminds me how catastrophic of a frick up Philly really is.

Philly thinks its in the same league as DC, New York, Chicago, or Boston....but it's really more like Baltimore to me.
Posted by nes2010
Member since Jun 2014
6763 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:50 am to
Trying to push out the Asian store owners.
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:50 am to
Bingo!
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
69107 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:56 am to
I hate going into a store and it's behind glass.
I remember if I picked up a pizza in BR byvmy house. Both Dominos and p johns were behind glass.
This post was edited on 12/7/17 at 9:08 am
Posted by TigersHuskers
Nebraska
Member since Oct 2014
11310 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:57 am to
Culcha gonna Culcha
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134865 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:57 am to
Probably shouldn't have locks on the doors. Those are life threatening barriers as well.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89551 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:59 am to
They take your guns, then your armor and finally your right to defend yourself.

Why? Criminals are clearly their target constituency. There is no other reasonable conclusion that can be drawn.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134865 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:00 am to
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Why? Criminals are clearly their target constituency. There is no other reasonable conclusion that can be drawn.

Well, that and they're likely targeting the Asians as someone said.
Posted by rattlebucket
SELA
Member since Feb 2009
11454 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:03 am to
Block wall off the partition, put in a bank of bullet resistant doors with a service box in the door. Make it all hollow metal doors then you arent using “glass”.
Posted by the LSUSaint
Member since Nov 2009
15444 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:07 am to
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pizza in BR bar my house. Birth Dominos and p johns were behind glass.



They were afraid of your lack of English
Posted by SCLSUMuddogs
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2010
6869 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:13 am to
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Philadelphia is one step closer to getting rid of bulletproof glass in many of its small businesses as part of a larger effort to crack down on loitering, public urination and potential drug sales


quote:

Bass said the bulletproof glass and partitions at some of these businesses are a concern of the city’s health department, as if a customer is choking or having an allergic reaction, a barrier should not stand in the way of safety


I don't understand how removing Plexiglass helps any of this. The employee isn't locked in the room with bulletproof glass. Just walik out the door and give the heimlich
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
32096 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:27 am to
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I don't understand how removing Plexiglass helps any of this.


It will help people rob those annoying white and Asian store owners.
This post was edited on 12/7/17 at 8:28 am
Posted by whit
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
10999 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:31 am to
I refuse to believe this is real.
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