Kenney: "Sit where you want"
Mayor Kenney had a message Saturday night for those in an uproar over "no sitting" signs posted on the walls in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square:
Mayor Kenney had a message Saturday night for those in an uproar over "no sitting" signs posted on the walls in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square:
"Sit where you want."
Kenney joined the fray two days after the signs went up, taking to his personal Twitter account to tell the public to perch freely - but not to "smoke weed so obviously that you scare olds my age."
The near-endorsement of marijuana smoking in one of the city's toniest parks was a much blunter statement than what he had tweeted from the mayoral account Friday, when he asked the public to use the park "respectfully and lawfully."
"Regarding Rittenhouse Square, I'm frustrated too," Kenney tweeted Saturday. "This government is very large and at times things just get by you."
"Sit where you want," he closed, with a peace sign emoji.
He added 15 minutes later, "Along with my liberal view of park use, please don't litter, or graffiti the walls or smoke weed so obviously that you scare olds my age."
The no-sitting signs, which appeared Thursday, prompted a public outcry, including from many who believed it was targeting marijuana smokers who commonly sit on the park wall.
The city denied Friday that the decision had to do with marijuana, citing a need to protect the structural integrity of the walls.
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