Sorry for your community.

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90% of the time it’s Reagan

Yeah. It's like they do it on purpose so that we don't get together and fight them for basic human rights or something like France right now.

Thanks for being a cool guy and having an open mind for conversation to happen. I'm glad I could be a cool person in this exchange too. Our country really has a yelling at people problem and I think it's very unproductive and divisive.

fucking thank you lol. Came here to say something similarly snarky 👏 AC DC is lame as hell

Or she now has multiple boyfriends

So republicans support this?

I don’t think that cause was ever determined. The houses didn’t have gas service. From what I remember.

Little bit of mud ain't killed anyone. Please ignore the multiple USX plants directly alongside the river.

Should get pulled over for bad taste.

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There's ways to complain about this situation without using the tragedy for people to get on a soapbox about their preferred political issue.

Better workers/unemployment benefits are needed and important but we don't even know what unemployment/benefits the workers will have access to. People are fired up over a hypothetical.

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Of everything involved in this situation I'm not sure the most produdictive way to help the victims and their families is by trying to shame firefighters.

Please allow me to clarify. The employees held a fundraiser for the fire department. The fire department did not release any balloons. They were busy dealing with search and rescue. I’m not even sure the ballon portion was with the fundraiser or a separate thing. I personally would have delivered coffee, water, snacks to the firefighters…. But hey, their hearts were in the right place ?!?! Maybe?

NVM the Q1 is a 2-6-4

Take the train to Trenton, then Uber over to New Hope

Wait I know that says CN, but is that a Reading Q1? It looks awful similar

My original question was based on a lifetime of observation as a PA resident and current federal LEO. I keep hearing they are trying to push for Sheriffs to have more LE authority, but have heard it for years. I actually think it’s a great idea, if for nothing more then strictly more rural counties. What always struck me as weird though is that they don’t even run the jails, and I’ve heard in random counties they do functional as patrol officers and answer 911 calls(which I can’t confirm first hand; counties like Tioga for example).

Additionally hearing information like what another poster here stated(that his sheriffs dept in pa runs the jail)which would suggest legally they can(patrol, 911 responce and run county jail) yet we keep hearing debates over legal authority, roles, historical and current, their certification vs Act 120(municipal police certification), etc. All of which feeds back into why is this not much more common, as in most other states, or at the very least more widespread?

Sounds like the younger one was an "oops"

Potter? 🤔 I hear they call that “God’s County” haha

If it turns out they really were notified by employees about a gas smell and did nothing about it, will there still be a company when this is over?

Yeah, wasn't the local gas company, UGI, also notified about a gas leak many times before a house exploded in Pottstown, killing an entire family?

No one has been held accountable for that one yet.

State police are the default law enforcement in PA, and as far as I know that has been the case as long as the state police have existed.

Ultimately, sheriff's deputies are the officers of the courts - not cops. Sheriff's deputies can be (but are not necessarily required to be) fully qualified law enforcement officers but routine law enforcement is outside the scope of their duties. Deputies are eligible to serve in interdepartmental law enforcement groups like regional SWAT teams.

"We're a Commonwealth" comes up as a rumored explanation for a whole bunch of things, but it's legally meaningless.

There are a few other states (all in the northeast) where sheriff's deputies have a similar or even smaller role.

Palmer chocolate is the most disgusting chocolate out there and I have never understood how they stay in business. They do seem to make a lot of unique looking products but you're right. Its basically candle wax.