Pat’s

Love the steak!

Enough with the influencers.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — The owner of Pat’s King of Steaks in South Philadelphia is calling for accountability after a customer threw a cheesesteak at the restaurant’s longtime general manager in an incident captured on video.

According to the restaurant, the incident occurred around 5 p.m. outside the iconic cheesesteak shop.

Video recorded from multiple angles shows a customer throwing a cheesesteak at general manager Tom Francano before running away.

Francano, who said he has worked at the restaurant for nearly 50 years, described the encounter.

“My first reaction was, ‘He hit me in the face.’ He stood at the window and then he took off running down the street,” Francano said. “He hit me right in the side of the face, went all over the place, glass, everything.”

Francano said the individual arrived with a camera and tripod, leading him to believe the person might be an influencer. After ordering a cheesesteak with whiz and onions, the customer returned a few minutes later and complained about the sandwich, Francano said.

“He turns around, he says to me, ‘It’s garbage.’ I said — there was another couple eating outside — I said, ‘Guys how was your steaks tonight?’ They said, ‘Our steaks were great, they were good,'” Francano said.

Immediately after, Francano said the meat started flying, and the customer fled.

Pat’s owner, Frank Olivieri, said he believes the incident may have been motivated by a desire for online attention, though it remains unclear whether the individual is a well-known influencer or someone seeking views and clicks through online content.

“Why would you throw a cheesesteak in someone’s face? That’s assault,” Olivieri said.

Olivieri said police were called after the incident and that he wants the person responsible to be held accountable.

“I’m thinking about offering a $500, no maybe a $5000 cash reward, for the arrest and prosecution and imprisonment of this person for assault and battery on my manager,” Olivieri said.

Police have been contacted regarding the nature of any investigation or possible charges.-6ABC

Repent and Fry

Are you kidding?

She confessed.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. —

A federal court has halted the execution of a Tennessee woman for a 1995 murder she committed at age 18 just as the execution was set to take place. It would have been the state’s first execution of a woman in 200 years. 

Christa Gail Pike, now 50, was scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. Wednesday by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Pike and her boyfriend were convicted of stabbing and beating 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at a job training facility in Knoxville.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an order Wednesday morning staying Pike’s execution “until further order of this court.” Pike’s attorneys confirmed the stay in an emailed statement.

“The court has stayed this recognizing the serious concerns about Christa’s scheduled execution,” Stephen Ferrell of the Federal Defenders Services of Eastern Tennessee said.

The case garnered widespread attention at the time in part because a pentagram that was carved on Slemmer’s body and other elements of the crime stoked fears of Satan worship during the “satanic panic” of the 1980s and 1990s. As the execution date drew near, it renewed debate over the death penalty for young offenders.

Pike does not deny committing the killing, but her supporters argue the state should consider Pike’s age at the time, mental illness and a history of severe sexual abuse that included being raped from the time she was a toddler. Assistant Federal Defender Stephen Ferrell said Pike’s death sentence is an outlier because other 18-year-olds sentenced to death in Tennessee have had their sentences vacated.-ap

Inconsistency

Inconsistency is a sign of a failed argument.

Act like Ladies

Not like buffoons.

INDIANAPOLIS — Aces center A’ja Wilson received a technical foul after confronting a fan at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Tuesday night during a 99-89 loss to the Indiana Fever in Game 2 of their first-round series.

The incident happened with just over four minutes left in the fourth quarter after Indiana’s Sophie Cunningham was called for a foul on Wilson. As Cunningham protested the foul, a fan seated behind the baseline stood up and pointed at Wilson.

Wilson then stepped toward the fan and said, “You don’t point at me, you don’t point at me.” As the fan started to sit back down, Aces players Cheyenne Parker-Tyus, Chelsea Gray and Jackie Youngcame over to pull away Wilson, as did Las Vegas’ Kierstan Bell, who left the bench to do so.

The fan was escorted out of the arena bowl but was allowed back in and took his seat.

In a statement released later Tuesday, the Fever said arena security spoke with the fan involved as well as witnesses and allowed him to return because “there was no violation of the Fan Code of Conduct.”

In the Aces’ postgame news conference, Wilson called the fan’s actions “unacceptable” and said she was surprised he was allowed to return to his seat.

“I try to play my game … but if I am just walking, just got the foul, I’m chilling and I see a man come at me, taking steps toward me and pointing at me, I don’t give a damn what you said,” she said. “I don’t give a damn how you said it, the tone. That is unacceptable. You don’t step toward me. You never should sit and point at me. That there is unacceptable.”

Wilson said she apologized to her teammates for receiving a technical, “but it’s just certain things that I’m not going to allow anymore.”

“You don’t know me at all,” she said. “To come and step toward me and point at me and say anything … you don’t have to like me, you don’t have to love me. You can hate me with all your heart. But you don’t know me. But I guarantee you will respect me.”

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Buffalo Joke

What did the buffalo say to his son when he left the ranch?

Bi-son

Horse Joke

What do you call a well-balanced horse?

Stable.

Ed and Ai

Education is 100% replacable by Al if education is understood as downloading information. In fact, it can probably do that job much better.

But if education is fundamentally about formation, the cultivation of the right affections, a deep love of God, family, and country, and a relentless pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty, Al doesn’t stand a chance. Only inspirational teachers, can do that.

Tate

Coffee Joke

Why did the coffee file a police report?

It got mugged.

Gamer Joke

What kind of dough does a gamer use?

Nintendough

Everything

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

A.W. Tozer