Below is a recent posting from the ever-vigilant Midtown Ponce Security Alliance (MPSA), a citizen group that employs off duty Atlanta PD cops to patrol a nearby area with a significant emphasis onbusting "gangs" of trans* prostitutes, or what MPSA ally Wayne Mock of the similarly styled off duty rentacop police force Midtown Blue likes to call "tranny hookers."
What really rubs raw about this article is not their lack of understanding that they really mean "dual suspension" rather than "2X suspension", but rather their bizarre and inappropriate use of scare quotes (a.k.a. air quotes) around "shelter." No matter one's position on the Peachtree and Pine shelter run by the Metro Atlanta Taskforce for the Homeless, it's most definitely a shelter. Check out this article and the reader comments to get a small flavor of the debate over this shelter. If you click through on that article, try to ignore the blatantly unobjective [micro] journalism in a series described thusly: "Welcome to another edition of "Visions for Vacancies," where we visit a local vacant commercial building and ask you what you'd like to see go in that space.…"
Confidential to Midtown Patch: the Peachtree and Pine shelter isn't vacant, and the parking lot across the street from it isn't part of the shelter, and those who hang out in the parking lot (which really isn't as terrifying as they make it sound: I ride by it semi-regularly) explicitly aren't allowed to access the shelter's services.
Confidential to MPSA: the word shelter isn't ironic. Perhaps you were going for a "writer's concise (but possibly misleading) paraphrasing, characterization, or intentional misrepresentation of statements, concepts, or terms used by a third party."
For the grammar nerds out there, if wikipedia isn't a sufficiently reliable source, see also the MLA Style Manual (3rd. Ed., 2008) at section 3.48(a), or The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Ed., 2003) at section 7.58. I assume the CMS 16th Edition (2010) section is numbered similarly, but I don't have it to check. Anyone out there in internetlandia have the 16th edition and want to post a comment confirming or denying this?
Power Climber? Dynacraft? Whoa! Sweet ride that someone is no doubt burning to get back, right? Well, in case the desperate crime victim needs their memory jogged, this might be their bike if they recently paid $88.00 for it at Wal Mart.Is this your bike?
May 13, 2012 · Posted in Eye on MidtownAPD recently arrested a homeless male who is staying at the Peachtree-Pine “shelter” for stealing money out of parking lot boxes on West Peachtree Street. They are looking for the owner/victim of the bike he was riding, a baby-blue, almost brand-new Power Climber 2X suspension by Dynacraft. The subject refused to divulge where he found the bicycle. According to the police report, the “shelter” folks told police that he is new to Midtown community. If you are missing a bike please contact Investigator Cantin directly at JCantin@atlantaga.gov.
What really rubs raw about this article is not their lack of understanding that they really mean "dual suspension" rather than "2X suspension", but rather their bizarre and inappropriate use of scare quotes (a.k.a. air quotes) around "shelter." No matter one's position on the Peachtree and Pine shelter run by the Metro Atlanta Taskforce for the Homeless, it's most definitely a shelter. Check out this article and the reader comments to get a small flavor of the debate over this shelter. If you click through on that article, try to ignore the blatantly unobjective [micro] journalism in a series described thusly: "Welcome to another edition of "Visions for Vacancies," where we visit a local vacant commercial building and ask you what you'd like to see go in that space.…"
Confidential to Midtown Patch: the Peachtree and Pine shelter isn't vacant, and the parking lot across the street from it isn't part of the shelter, and those who hang out in the parking lot (which really isn't as terrifying as they make it sound: I ride by it semi-regularly) explicitly aren't allowed to access the shelter's services.
Confidential to MPSA: the word shelter isn't ironic. Perhaps you were going for a "writer's concise (but possibly misleading) paraphrasing, characterization, or intentional misrepresentation of statements, concepts, or terms used by a third party."
For the grammar nerds out there, if wikipedia isn't a sufficiently reliable source, see also the MLA Style Manual (3rd. Ed., 2008) at section 3.48(a), or The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Ed., 2003) at section 7.58. I assume the CMS 16th Edition (2010) section is numbered similarly, but I don't have it to check. Anyone out there in internetlandia have the 16th edition and want to post a comment confirming or denying this?
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