PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A Philadelphia-area runner is organizing an 11-mile charity run this month to commemorate a bizarre event that catapulted a Holmesburg landscaping service to worldwide fame last weekend.
Like many people, Jeff Lyons could not get Four Seasons Total Landscaping out of his head. You know, the place where President Trump's legal team went to level charges of election fraud, not to be confused with the Four Seasons Hotel.
Except it was. That gaffe served as inspiration for him to put the two locations end-to-end for an 11-mile run on November 29.
"We're really happy that we could turn something kind of negative into a positive and just celebrate Philadelphia in the best way we can using our sense of humor," he said.
Lyons said the inaugural Fraud Street Run will take you from lawn service to room service.
"It's a little take on Philadelphia's greatest race, the Broad Street Run, which is iconic and beautiful and we all love it," he said. "And we hope in no way it diminishes that run. We are just poking fun."
Poking fun, of course, at the Trump campaign which chose the wrong Four Seasons to hold a news conference and sparked inspiration for social media wise guys, like this guy.
"Whether your lawn needs a bit of sprucing up or you need a filthy dirty parking lot next to an adult bookstore to host a spontaneous presidential campaign event because you got a garden center mixed up with a luxury hotel, we are here for you," he joked.
In the spirit of disarray, Lyons has mapped out the course and set up a very basic format.
"No organization in the best way possible," he explained. "No medals, no aid stations, no t-shirts. You show up, run a route and that is it."
For safety's sake, Lyons is asking everyone to be masked up and go off in small groups at different times of the day. He also hopes participants will also use their sense of giving when they sign up, by kicking in a minimum of ten bucks to the hunger relief organization, Philabundance.