The Daily Numbers - Feb. 1

The Daily Numbers: 6 teens busted in a brutal case of bullying in Upper Darby in which a 13-year-old teen was victimized.


1 more suspect being sought in the attack, which was captured on video by the suspects on a cell phone.


1-3 inches of snow that was forecast for overnight. Didn’t happen. Instead we got some rain that is freezing on some surfaces.


2 hour delays for many school districts in the region this morning.


91, age of woman suffering from dementia who apparently wandered away from her home in Nether Providence and was found dead.


81, age of woman who drove her car through the front window of a shoe store on Baltimore Pike in Springfield. She apparently mistook the brake for the gas pedal.


1 person arrested and 2 more being shot in a Del. bowling alley confrontation in which 6 people were shot.


7 people killed in weekend violence in Philadelphia.


1 third of the nation that is being affected by the massive storm sparking blizzard conditions in Chicago, all the way into the Northeast.


0 price increase for tickets to Eagles game next season, if there is a next season.


47 days until the first day of spring. Don’t forget to take part in the Great Heron’s Nest Snow Prognosticating Contest. Guess the number of measurable snows between now and March 20. I say 9. We’ve had 3, and there is more on the way tonight.


12 days until Phillies pitchers and catchers report to Clearwater.


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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Roy Halladay was named athlete of the year by the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association. No surprise there.


 


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I Don’t Get It: The attack on a 13-year-old kid in Upper Darby by a wolf pack of 7 older kids is just sickening.


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Today’s Upper: Some serious kudos to the woman who intervened after the hit-run incident in Lansdowne. She followed the suspect and then boxed him in. Police eventually arrested the suspect.


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Quote Box: “They’re lucky they didn’t kill him.”


- Upper Darby police Superintendent Mike Chitwood, talking about group of teens who attacked another kid in a wolf pack, bullying incident.

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