"A 13-year-old boy who was arrested in connection with a series of armed-robbery attempts was on the path to destruction long before cops nabbed him in a West Philadelphia deli Wednesday morning."
Is there something in the water in Philadelphia? Poverty really bites.
Half a century ago, a kid who could not have been much over nine years old told me he was robbing me while he brandished a large hat-pin. He meant it, too, though of course it was not something he truly could follow through on against a grown man....