The other day I saw a plate LVMYBOYS where the S was hand-painted on. WTF.

There’s no keystone symbol on vanity plates. You can have either a blank space (what this probably was), or a hyphen if you choose.

You can paint over the keystone symbol to make it look like this. Interesting idea.

>Literally everybody should be 'complaining' right now.

About what?

Because my comment is specifically about people complaining that these people are out of a job with 0 support available, which is ridiculous. It has nothing to do with your feelings or any one else's. Instead of actually looking into the choices they have to move forward, people would rather just complain that there are none while there are. That's the only thing I'm talking about.

So sure, complain. Just don't sound like a moron while ya do it.

They split it in 2021 - partly in the park, partly in the Cultural District. Then, the rule went into effect in 2022, so they moved the entire festival to the CD for 2022. It's interesting in that it pushes you to explore the area, but I found myself missing parts, or walking through the same area several times as I moved from place to place or forgot what I'd already covered.

Ok. Even then, they probably lost friends. Their life is likely going to have a dramatic change, at least to some degree. And they have a fuck ton to be angry about. None of this would have happened if they didn't.

Literally everybody should be 'complaining' right now.

probably a decal added after.

Oh wow I hadn’t even noticed. When did they move it out of the park? I haven’t been there since before the pandemic, but I would go over if I was at the hotel during the festival. I can understand why they would move it, there was indeed a massive amount of people trampling through there. I didn’t realize how huge of an art scene the Burgh has til I started going there regularly. I did know Warhol was from a there so it makes sense. I gotta get back there and see friends, lots of good people In Pittsburgh.

Do you drive a motorcycle?

Comes across as don't look too hard for the cause. Keep talk of it on the downlow. For a smaller-scale incident, would likely work.

However, this is national news, so the details will come out. West Reading officials have done a decent job overall managing the situation, but are way out of their league if seeking to cover things up. Truth will come out.

As for what the company does, my hunch and hope is they promptly settle with everyone affected with fair payouts, rebuilds building 2 bigger and better (expand out to Penn Ave), and gets back to business with a stronger focus on safety.

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Doubt it. Takes a lot of dust to explode that violently. Not saying it's not possible, but seems highly unlikely for what they made there. Probably a gas explosion. Either directly from accumulated gas or a boiler that experienced a fault releasing gas that led to explosion.

If true, not evacuating is inexcusable. Likewise, with not turning off the gas to building 2. Would have lost some production, but better than the entire structure blowing up plus damaging building 1 too.

WFMZ 69 coverage is decent, but notice they've been disabling comments on some of the related articles. Maybe afraid of ruffling the wrong feathers. That's the issue with small-time news media. Trust WPVI 6 and WGAL 8 coverage more along with posts here on Reddit from people actually involved, but I digress.

In time the truth will come out. Most likely a natural gas leak, but could have been more complicated than that. Maybe a boiler explosion due to some fault releasing gas to atmosphere, which would have similar results.

People are quoted as saying that people had to go outside from time to time because the smell was so bad. One dude they interviewed (I think Reading Eagle) said he went out to get fresh air and stopped mid-way to where he was walking and the explosion happened in front of him. He said if he kept walking, he may have died. Maybe some dramatic flair for clicks but still completely believable. Absolutely terrifying.

Happens to houses a good deal too. I remember one exploding in York many years ago and one just exploded in Harrisburg in December.

Steep to say they "gave so much to the community" when their product is literally brown candle wax lol

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The local gas places were quoted as saying they had no notices from management about any gas leaks that day. Possibly could be a small bit of misinformation getting passed around in articles, but it did see that often when reading about it.

Not just factories either. The Wyomissing Post Office was destroyed in 1979 by a natural gas explosion.

https://berksnostalgia.com/wyomissing-post-office-explodes/ (great site by the way)

While not a fan of places outlawing gas, it does have some benefits. All-electric is safer. For manufacturing, electricity is often a viable replacement, but requires different equipment and processes. So can't fault companies sticking with what they have and know.

Which pays about 1/2 of their normal wage. Assuming building 1 can be repaired quickly, might be a minor economic hit for workers. However, it seems inevitable that some workers will be let go.

My view is, the company should purchase the large building (assuming they don't own now) fronting Penn Ave, demolishing it all and build a new facility to replace building 2. It would provide better visibility of their presence (not really important, but a nice plus), more manufacturing capacity, and more jobs.

This is why I sell water filtration systems in Pa, NJ, and OH. Water is terrible everywhere.

Ditto. Balloon releases harm animals and pollutes the landscape. Unless they intend to collect every released balloon and properly dispose of them afterwards. Not likely.

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What's next, flying flaming lanterns, releasing doves, etc. Better they spend money and time on something more productive to help victims.

You can't just get a coffee and hang around at Sree's for ten minutes between bus transfers.

Sree’s

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