Stay Classy, Philadelphia

[giblets]

18-year-old in Philadelphia shoots self in head during web chat
Cops say victim pulled out pistol after someone ‘challenged his manhood’

An 18-year-old Philadelphia teen shot himself in the head early Wednesday while trying to prove his "manhood" to someone he was video chatting with, police said.

Police said the man's two brothers, 22 and 13, were asleep in some beds beside him when he picked up the older brother's 9mm pistol, put it to his head and pulled the trigger, the Philadelphia Daily News reported.

Cops said the unidentified man thought the gun was unloaded and was trying to impress the person he was chatting with on either Skype or ooVoo, another video web chat service.

"His manhood or his ego was challenged and he said something along the lines of 'I'll show you,'" East Detectives Capt. John Gallagher told the newspaper.

"He thought he was clowning around, trying to shock the other party on the Internet site."

Photos from the scene showed a male family member standing in front of the house in a white undershirt soaked with blood.

The teen was reported to be brain dead and in critical condition at Temple University Hospital on Wednesday night.

Cops were investigating whether the 22-year-old brother bought the gun legally.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/18-year-old-philadelphia-shoots-head-web-chat-article-1.1091657

[giblets]

A Philadelphia jury ended its fifth day of deliberations on Thursday without reaching a verdict in the child sex abuse trial of a Roman Catholic monsignor, the highest-ranking U.S. clergyman to stand trial in the church's wide-ranging pedophilia scandal.

Monsignor William Lynn, who supervised hundreds of priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese for 12 years as secretary of the clergy, is accused of conspiracy and child endangerment.

If convicted on all charges, he faces the possibility of 21 years in prison.

The jury in Common Pleas Court before Judge M. Teresa Sarmina began deliberating on Friday after hearing 10 weeks of testimony in the closely watched trial, which has rocked the nation's sixth largest archdiocese, with 1.5 million members.

Jurors were scheduled to resume deliberations on Monday afternoon.

Prosecutors say Lynn, 61, covered up child sex abuse allegations, often by transferring priests to unsuspecting parishes.

Lynn's motive was to avoid scandal and any potential loss of money for the church, they argued. His job was to supervise 800 priests, which included investigating sex abuse claims, from 1992 to 2004.

The defense said Lynn tried to handle documented cases of pedophile priests, making a list in 1994 of 35 accused predators and writing memos to suggest treatment and suspensions. He was hampered because he could only make recommendations to the head of the archdiocese, Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who died in January at age 88, the defense said.

Thousands of cases of child sex abuse by priests have come to light in Europe and the United States in recent decades. More than 10,000 allegations of child sex abuse were brought against U.S. priests between 1950 and 2002, according to a report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The Philadelphia jury also is deliberating the fate of the Reverend James Brennan, 48, who is charged with child endangerment and the attempted rape of a 14-year-old child in 1996.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/07/us-usa-crime-church-idUSBRE8561G820120607

[Tupac Shakur]

This thread makes no sense. Philadelphia has never been considered classy by anyone.

[Tuberski]

It's like saying, "stay snowy Phoenix."

There may be the occasional shower, but it's not gonna last.

ACK!

[Lorizael]

The teen was reported to be brain dead...

Before or after the incident?