Originally Posted by
tom cotter
No one relies on messengers in Philly. The messengers operating ina very small area, a few square miles. If they are all gone tomorrow no one will miss them. The few lawyers, and others who use their service will have them replaced as fast as they can make a phone call.
Replace them with what? There is still some demand for the service, however small. People don't pay for 15-minute delivery because they think it's cute. So there will be bike messengers until somebody figures out a better way to provide that service. Fortunately for you, there are so few messengers left that it's doubtful that you'd ever lay eyes on an actual messenger when you make your trip into the city. You are likely to see lots of folks dressed in archetypal messenger get-ups of the 1990s though, and clearly that gets your panties in a bunch.
I doubt you have ever seen a working messenger in your life, Tom.
Originally Posted by
tom cotter
Posenger? new word?
Only if you've been living on another planet.
Originally Posted by
tom cotter
Next you're going to tell me that it's the look alikes who are the problem?
I already did actually.
Originally Posted by
tom cotter
messengers are solid law biding citizens? Cut me an effin break!
Some of us are, and are considered so by the US marshalls we work around all day. I assure you they wouldn't let me anywhere near their federal courts if they thought I was some crazed scofflaw. As it is we are on a first-name basis.
Like I said, I doubt you've ever seen a messenger on the job, let alone met one. If you do they just might be carrying something fairly important, like critical public documents or PET scans from one med center to another. Lots of clueless idiots in fact benefit from the service provided by bike messengers without realizing it.
Originally Posted by
tom cotter
Get rid of them and most of the problem goes with them.
Get rid of them and suburbanites like you wouldn't notice any difference whatsoever when visiting the city. Have a nice day.