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A Philly Two-For
So a local Philadelphia man is having a bit of a quarrel with City Council. Seems that the man, Mouhammed Shaukat, runs a little newstand by the Liberty Bell. The City Council is fine with that. But as for Mouhammed’s selling of pornography near the national monument? Well, yeah, not so much. When Mouhammed was previously warned by the council that he couldn’t sell his porno, he responded by putting a sign up on his stand notifying those that object to his porn that (a) they could fuck off and (b) he would rape them!
Needless to say, City Council ain’t exactly thrilled by this. On Wednesday, a Council committee approved a bill to close his newstand, and now the full City Council will vote on it. One imagines it will pass and that Shaukat’s stand will be closed. Which is a shame really - the porn, and especially the rape-threatening sign, really give the tourists a nice taste of the Philly color.
Meanwhile, the saddest kind of war is a cheesesteak war. So it breaks my heart to hear that the owner of my beloved Pat’s King of Steaks is involved in a nasty little lawsuit with his cousin, owner of Rick’s Steaks. Pat’s owner is alleging trademark infringement, claiming that ads for Rick’s Steaks are illegally using Pat’s “name, its crown logo and trademarked phrases, including ‘Pat’s King of Steaks Originators of the Steak Sandwich.’”
I really wish they’d think about the poor cheesesteaks caught in the middle of this messy fight. Please, won’t you think of the cheesesteaks?!
