Delco Man Learns Pleasuring Yourself at Wawa Is a Bad Idea
And in this case, a worse idea than normal.
Delco resident Ryan Campbell who was arrested on public indecency and weapons charges outside this Wawa
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Delco Man Learns Pleasuring Yourself at Wawa Is a Bad Idea
All Delco resident Ryan Campbell had to do in the wee hours of Saturday morning was go home, put on some adult films and proceed from there, as many people do. But according to police, Campbell made a bad choice.
On Saturday around 4 a.m., allege Ridley Township Police, an officer discovered Campbell masturbating inside his car, which was parked in the parking lot of the Wawa at the intersection of Route 420 and MacDade Boulevard. Masturbating in your car in public is bad enough and can elicit an indecent exposure charge, as it did in this instance. (Keep in mind that an indecent exposure conviction can land you on the sex offender registry.) But things got a lot worse for Campbell from there.
The cop who arrested Campbell noticed that he had a revolver sitting next to him on the passenger seat of his car, along with .22-caliber rounds and spent casings. Earlier that same morning, there was a shooting spree in Tinicum Township, which is just down the road from the Wawa, in which someone shot at a house and a couple of cars. There was another incident around the same time in which someone shot up cars in the parking lot of Springfield Mall, which is about six minutes from the Wawa. And now investigators are considering whether Campbell was the one who committed those crimes.
As investigators and ballistics experts sort all that out, Campbell remains in jail, with bail set at a cool $1 million. In addition to the indecent exposure charge, he’s also accused of various weapons offenses.
There’s gotta be some Meatball Shorti joke in here but… I’ll leave the comedy to the professionals.
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