Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote a blog post about how much good news there seemed to be in the paper? Yeah, that was nice. Wasn't it?
Not so much today. Both the Inquirer and Daily News used a variation of the word "botch" in a headline today and both stories were about public safety services of the City of Philadelphia:
Inquirer: Police admit botched arrest (includes plenty of quotes from people about the cops firing at a gun wielding New Year's reveler and hitting the fully occupied house behind him).
Daily News: Woman dies while city botches EMS call. Admittedly, there's a lot of blame to go around here including on all of the drunken idiots who took up valuable rescue services because they couldn't control their partying on New Year's Eve:
Ayers said for this New Year's Eve he added extra communications personnel and five ambulances to the 28 that would normally be on duty in the wee hours, but it was clear that the system was stretched beyond its limit.
"We get so many calls then, a lot of them for people who've fallen down or passed out drunk," Ayers said. "That makes it harder for us to get to more serious situations like this one."
Sigh.