Nice to see a local author getting his thing going at The Daily Beast. He’s got more of an insider’s view as to how Rian Thal became the person that she became. He was able to say no to that glamorous, it seems, because he sensed the danger of ending up dead. Do some people like that danger, or just not appreciate it? This is not reality TV, folks, this is REALITY.
I was no fan before yesterday, when a young woman and a man from out of town were gunned down in cold blood in the hallways of these apartments. The project is little more than a monument to Mr. Blatstein, the developer who thinks that creating a walled community is, somehow, integrating into the neighborhood.
Well, for the residents of these buildings, this is an horrific story. For Blatstein and his crew, it’s a PR nightmare, especially since The Piazza just opened. Was it a drug deal? Was it a serial killer? Blatstein’s people have apparently conducted a detailed investigation that has revelaed that this is ‘an isolated incident’. Wow! Thanks. I feel so much better now. I’ll bet the hundreds (thousands?) of tenants feel a lot better too.
You’ll see in the Inquirer article that the whole thing was caught on camera. That’s great too. Were those security cameras? If so, they were intended to help keep the residents safe. Which means that the landlord undertook certain measures to protect the safety of tenants, which means… (wait for it) CIVIL LIABILITY!! Pretty soon some smart plaintiff’s lawyer will own that shithole and Blatstein will be living at the old State Office Building, waiting for his next loan to come through.
The other thing about the security cameras and the murder footage is that Blatstein can show it on the massive TV. Fun for the whole family.