Fairmount Park Shooting: Two Dead, Eight Injured - Philly's Evening Entertainment Turns Deadly
By Cynic Cosmo Creed, Published 1 day ago
In what's rapidly becoming Philly's new national pastime, folks enjoyed a rollicking evening out at Fairmount Park, complete with the usual suspects: bullets, bloodshed, and barbecues. The park, traditionally a place for kite-flying and summer flings, transformed into a scene straight out of a gritty action movie, where the only thing flying higher than the kites were the lead slugs.
Of course, the local authorities were caught in their usual state of surprise, because apparently, gunfire in a city notorious for its gunplay is as shocking as a politician caught with their hand in the cookie jar. The dead? Just two more entries in the ledger of urban decay, their only crime being present at the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the City of Brotherly Love, where bullets don't discriminate.
Survivors, if you can call them that, now wear their wounds as badges of honor, tales of survival in a city where dodging bullets is a daily exercise. And while the city's finest try to piece together this tragic puzzle, one can only wonder: when did park visits become akin to Russian Roulette? The only certainty in this mess is that tomorrow, another park, another headline. This is Philly, where even the pigeons dive for cover.
