Philadelphia

Cops wrestle ‘mom-n-daughter tag team:

Ah Philadelphia. How I sometimes miss your white trashitude…but not really.

Philadelphia police arrested 38-year-old Traci Young and 22-year-old Tammi Smith. They’re a mother-daughter team of craigslist hookers. Their craigslist ad basically said that they were a package deal.

Neighbors complained not only about the noise and traffic coming in and out of their home but also for the fact that Smith’s three children, ages 7, 5 and 3, would run around outisde unsupervised.

Also arrested was 29-year-old David Riley, Young’s pim…I mean boyfriend. When cops stormed the house Riley hid in a crawlspace where either Young or Smith placed their four pitbulls. This would be the ultimate white trash story if they only lived in a trailer.

Speaking of the living quarters this is how police described it…

When Green entered the house - which had cable TV and a queen-size mattress covered in a comforter made by the tween brand Bratz and girlish pillowcases featuring princesses and monkeys - he was “taken aback.”

“I thought it was deplorable,” he said. “It was sick.”

And this is why I really love and miss Philadelphia sometimes…

Many neighbors applauded when the two women were escorted outside by police and in handcuffs.

Apparently the pair worked as strippers and when their club closed down they apparently turned to turning trick.

Young had a different take, telling TV reporters as she did the perp walk into the police van: “It’s a messed up world out there. We have to do this just to get by.”

Or you could have…oh I don’t know…gotten real jobs.

According to one of the comments left on the Daily news article one of them was wearing a tshirt at the time of their arrest that said “Where do you want it? The yapper, the snapper, or the crapper?”

The kids were taken from the home and placed with CPS. You wouldn’t consider them victims in all of this would you?

Scammed out of three grand:
Anne Knorr of Philadelphia fell for the craigslist check scam when her fiancee was trying to sell some speakers on craigslist. Someone claiming to be a doctor from California sent them a check from a Tulsa, OK company for more than 3 grand the amount they were asking. Then the good doctor requested that she wire the excess back to him. She deposits the check, the check clears, she wires the money, then the check comes back as fake and she’s out 3 grand and she’s blaming the bank.

“There is no way I can pay that back,” she said.

“Unfortunately bank is taking advantage of this consumer. The bank made its statement clear, saying money was available. There was no way for the consumer to know anything other than the bank said funds were there,” said consumer advocate Lance Haver.

The bank says otherwise…

Wachovia disagrees, saying under federal law a scammed depositor can be held responsible “even if the check hold on the item has expired and your bank has made the funds available to you.”

In true Philly fashion the commenters on the original article are less than sympathetic with Ms. Knorr.

I’m not here to cast judgment but how many more red flags do you need? An out of state doctor writing a check from a company from yet another state for 3 grand over the requested amount.

It kind of reminds me of the joke about the guy who died in a flood while waiting for God’s intervention We he got to heaven he asked God why didn’t he save him and God says, “I sent you a truck, a boat, and a helicopter”. It’s a real funny joke. Look it up.