The Schuylkill River freezing over is one of those things that looks cool as hell and immediately triggers the worst instincts in people.
Every couple of decades, Philly gets cold enough for the surface of the Schuylkill River to freeze. And every time it happens, a handful of people look at a massive, moving river covered in ice and think, yeah, I should walk on that.
Philadelphia police had to jump in this weekend and remind everyone of something that really shouldn’t need saying: walking or skating on a frozen Schuylkill River or any river for that matter, in the city is illegal, and it’s illegal for a very good reason…