Used to be people moved to the suburbs to escape crime.
Not it follows them out to their tony new digs.
Don’t believe me? Talks to the folks in Haverford. That is sometimes referred to as the Main Line.
But it’s been the scene of some very un-upscale activity recently.
Last Thursday a man who just arrived home at about 10 at night answers a knock on his door. A woman is asking for help with her car. The Good Samaritan goes outside, where he is confronted by several thugs.
They take him back in the house, where he is assaulted and tied up. They ransack the house and then flee.
Then consider what happened to a mother yesterday in the middle of the afternoon. You can read the full story by Rose Quinn by clicking here.
She was leaving the day care facility on Belfield Avenue where she works when she was approached by several males asking her for information on employment.
It quickly went downhill from there. They took out a gun and demanded her car. She begged them to allow her to get her 7-year-old daughter, who was in the back seat.
Amazingly, the woman managed to fend off her attackers when she grabbed the gun. But they fled in her car.
Eventually they were apprehended in Southwest Philly after a confrontation and shootout with police.
Now an army of city and suburban cops, along with the FBI, are hoping the arrests of three suspects can break a carjacking ring that they believe is connected to as many as 30 incidents.
In many of them police believe women were followed from the city to their suburban homes, where they were confronted, sometimes at gunpoint, and their luxury cars ripped off.
It’s becoming more and more dangerous out there each day. And it’s not just limited to the city.
Even the vaunted Main Line is now a target, perhaps for exactly the status items such as the luxury SUVs that so many of us use to get around.
The lesson? Be careful out there.
Not it follows them out to their tony new digs.
Don’t believe me? Talks to the folks in Haverford. That is sometimes referred to as the Main Line.
But it’s been the scene of some very un-upscale activity recently.
Last Thursday a man who just arrived home at about 10 at night answers a knock on his door. A woman is asking for help with her car. The Good Samaritan goes outside, where he is confronted by several thugs.
They take him back in the house, where he is assaulted and tied up. They ransack the house and then flee.
Then consider what happened to a mother yesterday in the middle of the afternoon. You can read the full story by Rose Quinn by clicking here.
She was leaving the day care facility on Belfield Avenue where she works when she was approached by several males asking her for information on employment.
It quickly went downhill from there. They took out a gun and demanded her car. She begged them to allow her to get her 7-year-old daughter, who was in the back seat.
Amazingly, the woman managed to fend off her attackers when she grabbed the gun. But they fled in her car.
Eventually they were apprehended in Southwest Philly after a confrontation and shootout with police.
Now an army of city and suburban cops, along with the FBI, are hoping the arrests of three suspects can break a carjacking ring that they believe is connected to as many as 30 incidents.
In many of them police believe women were followed from the city to their suburban homes, where they were confronted, sometimes at gunpoint, and their luxury cars ripped off.
It’s becoming more and more dangerous out there each day. And it’s not just limited to the city.
Even the vaunted Main Line is now a target, perhaps for exactly the status items such as the luxury SUVs that so many of us use to get around.
The lesson? Be careful out there.
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