Results tagged “caraccident”

• Londonist was treated to some fantastic views of the city, courtesy of the 'Star Over London' airship.
• Bostonist spent the week celebrating New England's quintessential summer meal, the lobster roll.
• Torontoist explored the dangerous lives of stickmen.

Berks County is featured in one the strangest hauntings regarding road-related weirdness. At Hawk Sanctuary Mountain there is a legend that a shining, ten-feet tall apparition spooks drivers travelling along the two-road lane which ascends the mountain. The mountain, situated between Ecksville and Bailey's Crossing, is also allegedly haunted by the spirits of settlers who were killed by Indians during the 1700s. Meanwhile Bristol - located in the extreme south of Bucks County, northeast of Philly - is also haunted by a road specter. Midnight Mary is the name given to the female ghost that lurks around Bordertown Road. Like a majority of classic phantom hitchhiker tales, Mary, often dressed in white, and usually dripping wet, often vanishes from the backseat of vehicles. Legend claims that the woman died in a car accident when she was travelling home from a prom with her boyfriend. Strangely, although her boyfriend's body was dredged from the murky waters, her body was never found, and yet her drenched form is often observed walking into Manor Lake.

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike has been closed in both directions between the Philadelphia and Willow Grove interchanges, and is likely to stay closed most of the morning, due to a fiery five-car accident earlier today involving a tractor trailer and a pickup truck. Thankfully, as of this writing, no fatalities have been reported. The Fort Dix suspects are asking to be moved Special Housing Unit at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia due to the fact...

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

Every so often I might wander over to CNN. But just to glance the top headlines. To catch up if I've been out of touch - I don't own a TV. Mostly though, even that duty has been relegated to MSN and even, the BBC.

There are a lot of incredible athletes in the U.S. that don't get half the attention they deserve. If Lance Armstrong hadn't come up with those yellow bracelets, would we even know who he was? Can anyone name three players on the U.S. soccer team? Did you know that the Paralympics exist? Perhaps the most overlooked athletes of all, the members U.S. quad rugby team, finally get some long overdue exposure in Think Film's new documentary, Murderball.

People often make outrageous claims like, “You have a better chance of getting killed in a car accident than getting eaten by a shark.” Well, no shit, genius. Since we humans don’t spend hours every day wading in shark infested waters, but rather on car infested highways, that proclamation is true, but quite pointless.

For those of who prefer "educational and cultural" to "shameless and sensational", Philadelphia Stories airs this week on Tuesday and Saturday [10 pm, WYBE]. Tuesday's show includes: Ballycastle, which follows Manayunk-based painter Stuart Shils; Mother Divine, a short film by Philly independent filmmaker Jeff P. Elstone II; and Divine Lorraine Hotel, which was produced by Christina Ortiz, age 14, and highlights Philly's formerly magnificent -- and now crumbling -- landmark. Saturday's film is Under New Management: Student Voices & School Reform in Philadelphia. According to WYBE, "This documentary examines the first year of privatization of the Philadelphia Public School System by focusing primarily on those who are affected the most by this reform: the students and their families."