Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Potluck #87

41 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hearing lots of rumors that we are not going to have a football team this year. I drove by the school yesterday afternoon and other teams were practicing but no football team, anyone know whats up?

Anonymous said...

I heard they are playing JV games.

Anonymous said...

We're a small district, and football is a violent sport with prevalent head injuries that medical science is still learning about. The school board was right not to dumb down the academic standards for kids to participate as the coaches wanted. I'm disappointed, but ultimately can accept no football if we can't sustain a big enough squad.

Anonymous said...

I agree 100% If we can't field a team, time to end the program.

Anonymous said...

Cut it and Bring back the AP courses, its a waste of taxpayers money. No one cares about football anymore.

Anonymous said...

They need to bring Frank Torok back to coach the team

Anonymous said...

Frank Torok? THE Frank Torok? He puts his pants on one leg at a time, but once his pants are on, he wins football games.

Anonymous said...

you people are so dam ridiculous get some real info would you

Anonymous said...

If you want to keep football, let SOC coach them. Coach Hellman has a nice ring to it.

Anonymous said...

sounds so creepy

Anonymous said...

It looks like Hellmann's Heroes have won. They got rid of the AP courses AND the football team.

Anonymous said...

And we got rid of most of them, thank GOD.

Anonymous said...

nobody got rid of a dam football team the team is practicing and playing and having meetings and will be on the field for God sakes get your information right

Anonymous said...

Anyone who has been around for even a modest number of years recognizes that killing football isn't going to happen.

Two things I've found will bring out the angry mob:

Raise taxes

and

End football

The rest of the business happens without much notice, except for the attention paid by the few truly interested people.

This is another example of a rumor run rampant.

Anonymous said...

Coach Quill is the best coach around. He has brought back the Morrisville pride. I wish Jason Bresnen was still at his side Jason knows so much about football. And was great for the kids, they love him as their coach.

Anonymous said...

really, Bresnen, he is a hot headed, vulger, man who has no reason being around kids and teaching them how to be adults when he cant handle it himself, what a hot mess, glad he is gone, needs to stay gone

Anonymous said...

coach quill needs to clean up his act and be a better role model and he is not the best coach around he is decent but needs to get his head back in the game

Anonymous said...

Cops: Morrisville officer dragged 50 feet by suspect's car

Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 6:00 pm | Updated: 10:29 pm, Wed Aug 28, 2013.

By Jo Ciavaglia Staff writer


Posted on August 28, 2013

by Jo Ciavaglia

A Morrisville police officer suffered minor injuries Tuesday night after he was dragged around a parking lot in a car driven by a New Jersey man, who then led police on a 16-minute chase that ended in Ewing, N.J.

Officer Michael Pitcher was on patrol shortly before 11 p.m. when he saw a 15-year-old girl he recognized in a car parked along East Bridge Street with someone who appeared to be a “much older” man, according to an incident report. The officer had the girl get out of the car while he spoke to the driver, identified as Shawn Crawley, 40, of Ewing.

The man told Pitcher the girl was a friend, according to the police report. The officer noticed a prescription bottle without a label in the center console area and suspected it might contain narcotics. When he asked about it, Crawley became “extremely nervous” and more uncooperative, according to the report.

When the officer asked Crawley to get out of the car, he put it in drive and accelerated, with the officer holding onto the side of the car so he didn’t get pinned between it and his adjacent patrol car, according to the police report.

Crawley dragged Pitcher about 50 feet through the parking lot, then drove toward the South Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to Route 1. Pitcher let go of the car, which then drove over his foot, according to the report.

A second Morrisville officer who responded as backup pursued Crawley, who turned drove onto the Route 1 North ramp toward New Jersey.

The pursuit continued through Trenton, Hamilton and Lawrence townships before it ended in a Ewing Township apartment complex parking lot, according to Morrisville and Ewing Township police. Crawley struck “numerous” police cars from at least three departments and caused a substantial amount of property damage, officials said.

Ewing police took Crawley into custody and he was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, eluding police, resisting arrest and related charges. He is currently in Mercer County jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Morrisville will also file an arrest warrant charging Crawley with aggravated assault and make an extradition request.

Anonymous said...

There has been way to much CRIME in Morrisville lately. It is getting to be unsafe to be outside.

Anonymous said...

Police: Lunchtime robber strikes banks in Bensalem, Yardley, Morrisville

Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2013 3:15 pm | Updated: 4:00 pm, Thu Aug 29, 2013.
By Jo Ciavaglia Staff writer

Police and the FBI confirm three more banks — bringing the total to five this week — were targeted by the same robber at lunchtime Thursday.

A source confirmed that police are looking for the same man for the attempted robberies in Bensalem, Yardley and Morrisville.

The suspect, who wasn't named, had just been released from Bucks County prison on Wednesday, the source said.

The first two robbery attempts occurred at Sovereign Banks, one in the 1400 block of Street Road in Bensalem, another on Main Street in Yardley. The third attempt was at a Wells Fargo on East Bridge Street in Morrisville.

The three attempted robberies occurred within 90 minutes of each other, and each time the suspect left without any money.

A man reportedly entered the bank in Bensalem with a demand note, but then ran away. About a half-hour later, a man tried to rob the Sovereign bank in Yardley, the FBI confirms. He also used a demand note, according to authorities.

No further details were immediately available.

Two other banks were robbed on Tuesday along Street Road – a Fulton Bank in the 2100 block and a TD Bank in the 2700 block. Bensalem police have arrested three people in connection with both robberies, which were unrelated.

Joseph Coraluzzi, 32, of Philadelphia, and Deana Paulik, 24, of Cherry Hill, N.J., were arrested at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday by Bensalem detectives and Maple Shade, N.J., police. The two are charged with robbing the Fulton Bank in the 2100 block of Street Road shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Coraluzzi was taken into custody during a car stop in New Jersey after a warrant for his arrest was issued, law enforcement officials said. He will be detained until he is extradited back to Pennsylvania to face charges.

Paulik was the passenger in Coraluzzi’s vehicle and she allegedly conspired with Coraluzzi to commit the robbery, helped him write the demand note and hid the stolen money. She is in Bucks County prison in lieu to 10 percent of $750,000 bail.

According to court filings, police said a man, later identified as Coraluzzi, gave a bank teller a note demanding money and implied that he had a gun. He took off with an undisclosed amount of cash.

In court records, police said they believe Coraluzzi, whom they say confessed, was kicked out of his house Sunday after he stole an engagement ring and other items.

On Tuesday, police arrested a convicted serial bank robber – released from federal prison just 27 days ago – in connection with the TD Bank holdup.

The suspect, Frank D. Hicks, 35, who is homeless, ran toward Parx Casino with witnesses chasing him. Parx security chased the suspect, who later was apprehended by Bensalem police. He is also in Bucks County prison in lieu to 10 percent of $750,000 bail.

Hicks most recently served nine years in federal prison in connection with six bank robberies in Philadelphia.

Thursday's robbery is the fifth in Bensalem since June.

The latest bank robberies make 35 in Bucks and Montgomery counties since October, according to the FBI. All but 13 of the crimes have occurred in Montgomery County.

Overall, bank robberies in the two suburban counties have increased at least 9 percent since October 2010, according to FBI statistics, bucking a national trend of heists plummeting over the last decade.

If the pace continues at a moderate rate this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, the two counties will exceed the 39 bank robberies reported in fiscal year 2010, a Philadelphia FBI supervisor said.

Check back for updates on this developing story

Anonymous said...

Any truth to the rumor that Steve Worob was a big yammering baby last nite???

Anonymous said...

"Any truth to the rumor that Steve Worob was a big yammering baby last nite???"

Without any context, since I read his "book" and watched him sleep on council and scream at a sick and dying school board member, I'm sure the answer was yes. Can you be more specific about his yammering and infantile behavior?

Jon said...

I attended last night's board meeting, and that description is pretty accurate. Steve is on one of his patented hotheaded crusades about "outrageous" legal bills charged by the solicitor's firm, Hill Wallack. Shades of Steve in the early 90's, mid 90's, late 90's, early 2000's, mid 2000's, late 2000's, and early 2010's all over again.

Solicitor David Truelove did a good job explaining the various legal efforts he and his firm are involved in, including a complex suit involving the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), investigating deed and zoning issues surrounding the MR Reiter properties, and issues related to recent staff furloughs.

Oh yeah, and the $325,000 HeadStart lawsuit. Ring a bell, Steve? I'll give you a hint: a bunch of your friends made the votes and did the financial stiffing that led to this suit, which appears quite winnable for HeadStart, unfortunately.

Facts and logical explanations don't really stop Steve from stirring up clouds of muck. In that sense, he has talent. The guy could make a fluffy newborn kitten sound sinister.

Here's irony for you. Steve, who lost a $120,000 slander per se lawsuit filed by a former Superintendent, is complaining about a couple of $17,000 monthly legal bills, which include defending against, among other things, a $325,000 lawsuit his buddies triggered, and which he no doubt would have voted for himself had he been on the board at the time.

Anonymous said...

It's easy to think of Worob, Stout, Buckman and side-kick Mihok as mere buffoons. That doesn't give them the credit they deserve for the money wasting damage they cause with their stupidity and trumped up garbage.

Anonymous said...

I attended the meeting as well. Two things I noticed:

One, how comical it was watching the body language between Worob and Stout when the motion for seeking a RFP for a new solicitor was brought up by Worob. The motion evidently needed to be moved first before it could be seconded. Steve kept nudging Stout to move the motion. Why Steve didn't do it I don't know. Stout finally caught on. A second was needed then Jack Buckman was pointing his finger all around like, "Do you want me to do that or are you?" Then Stout says, "I'll second it". Hahaha! How long has this guy been on the board and doesn't he know he can't second his own motion? With a little more finger pointing by Buckman, he finally seconded the motion.

The other thing is I wish I kept track of how long the discussion was about the legal bills that Worob went on his tirade about. He kept talking about how all these little things add up to big bills. Does anyone know if the solicitor charges for being at the meetings because Steve must have wasted at least a billable hour of taxpayer money going to the solicitor just sitting there listening to his rant.

Anonymous said...

Where there's smoke, there's fire. On them. They're on the verge of blowing big time taxpayer money on their moronic lawsuit and they know it. They're not big enough people to admit their screw ups, so they try to deflect.

Anonymous said...

There's no nice way to put it. These people are f----ed up menaces.

Anonymous said...

I still cannot believe what happens in this district, really actually happens. We spend money on all the wrong things and cut money from all the right things to pay for this nonsense. It's a SCHOOL district, that has been made a mockery of by buffoons and blowhards. Roughly a million plus dollars on lawsuits drummed up by our own board members is an obvious example, having to take money from education to pay for the consequences of the absence of an education that the leaders of our educational system possess. Insanity. We continue to do it with this football program. How much does it cost, 20-30-40,000 per year? There are 5,10,15 kids at practice each day. They don't care about their own team, but we keep funding the program each year so the same buffoons and blowhards can relive the glory days on Friday Nights? Meanwhile that money could fund numerous things. Such as the athletic programs where the students care. Or maybe reduce the humongous class sizes. Or upgrade technology. Or the arts. Or put classes back into the school like AP courses, or add elective choices, or even put back basics like Health class or Library. At what point will logic and common sense prevail?

Jon said...

Why are those "buffoons and blowhards" still there? They all won their last election. The people (i.e. a majority of voters) put them there. So "we the people" must shoulder a good part of the blame.

Buckman's term is up in November, and he's not running for re-election. Adios, amigo.

Worob has another 2 years on his term. Enjoy it, Steve, you've earned it.

Stout wants your vote for another 4 years in November.

In my humble opinion, the choice is so stark and so clear that anyone who votes for Stout instead of Dann Dingle in November needs to have their head examined.

Anonymous said...

Get rid of Fotball it costs to much money and its a joke there are only 10 kids at practice. Coach Quill does not hold the players accountable. It has been an embaressment since Quill started coaching Bresnen Bounty, Players Fighting each other on the field. What in store for this year. Thank You Al Radosti for making this choice, and Thank You Bill Hellman for having their backs. There are 40 kids in phys ed classes with 1 teacher and 10 kids at football practice with 4 coaches. A total waste of money.

Anonymous said...

Who are Bill Hellman and Al Radosti? I am in the schools quite a lot and I haven't seen them there since November 2011.

Jon said...

I haven't seen Bill Hellmann, CPA in the schools since then either. I saw Al Radosti once. On July 18, 2012, he came as an applicant to fill the board vacancy when Alina Marone left.

Marlys Mihok endorsed him by saying he was the only one of the applicants who was already named in the $325,000 HeadStart lawsuit. You see, Al was 1 of the 6 people who voted to end the HeadStart's lease of Manor Park (and then not honor any of the financial consequences of doing that).

Now that's an endorsement!

And it almost worked. He came disturbingly close to getting the appointment.

Luckily, Dann Dingle got it instead, so now we have his capable, intelligent, practical representation on the school board.

Dann Dingle is up for election on November 5. He's essentially running head-to-head against Ron Stout.

I cannot urge people enough to vote for Dann Dingle.

Anonymous said...

Vote for Ivan Colon Also

Anonymous said...

On November 5 please vote for the following for School Board:

Dann DINGLE
Joe GILLEO
Jon PERRY
Ivan COLON

Anonymous said...

way to go there were only two members of the public at this weeks board meeting.

Jon said...

I was one of them - YEAH!

In defense of everyone else, the composition of the new school board is so much better now, that you don't have to worry all the time about some jerk move they might pull. The meetings are so much better now. There are 3 exceptions to this:

Jack Buckman
Steve Worob
Ron Stout

As noted earlier, Buckman's done in November.

Worob has another 2 years.

Stout needs to be sent packing in November.

Anonymous said...

These guys are terrible representatives. They don't prepare. They meddle. They connive. They stir up controversy where none really exists, while overlooking their own huge screw ups.

Their "facts" are wrong or outright lies. Their arguments don't hold up to scrutiny. I wish more people went to the meetings and paid attention to how lame and misguided they are.

Anonymous said...

"They stir up controversy where none really exists, while overlooking their own huge screw ups.

Their "facts" are wrong or outright lies. Their arguments don't hold up to scrutiny."

Hey, sounds like you learned part of the secret motto for being a member of their club.

Anonymous said...

It's no secret. I've seen enough of them to know. They're predictable as hell.

Anonymous said...


"In my humble opinion, the choice is so stark and so clear that anyone who votes for Stout instead of Dan Dingle in November needs to have their head examined."

Couldn't agree more.

Anonymous said...

Bill Hellman and Al Radosti

Bill Hellman is not paying his trash bills and its a busy job to make up fabrications and rumors as to why his kids can't seem to do the job he has been elected to do on his own.

Al is busy being angry. (sorry,didn't want him angry at me for leaving his name out of the post.)