Vigilante wrote: So maybe the kid "victim" actually sent the texts to himself in order to get attention and the sympathy vote?

fat-ass-bike wrote:
My concern is that the kid wasn't charged and it would seem the matter has been concluded by police - Therefore he is not guilty of anything in the eyes of the law. If anything he is guilty of lying and speaking to the media about the lie - Then again if it was a crime to lie and lie in the public arena, every politician would be charged and guilty of a crime!

PS, He's still just a kid and would peoples thoughts be any different if he was 10 years old instead of 16. His dishonesty was a lie he carried for 3 days and it will now cost / haunt him for a life time - Anyone will be able to google his name in the future (especially HR depts. of any corporation) and hold it against him.

If he was charged and found guilty the records would have be kept 'under lock and key' because he is classified as a juvenile

fat-ass-bike wrote:
Its the information that relates to the outcome of the investigation that is of concern.

No doubt the kid screwed-up, he lied and maybe your words of wisdom jerseymom, should have be voiced to the him ... but then again the parents might of thought the threats were real and they wanted some sort of justice or exposure that their kid was facing.

In hindsight we are all experts when we have the full and truthful story, however Police information is confidential and there appears to be laws about disclosure of such information when it involves a juvenile.

This is when the Parents and Police were correct to say 'no comment' when the media came calling for the outcome of the investigation.

fat-ass-bike wrote:
The police only spoke to the parties involved on what they discovered - Police didn't go public, the school did.

If I had a kid that went to that school, I wouldn't be happy with how it was handled ... but that's just me and wonder if the kid was from a prominent family, would they have acted the same way and exposed the kid publicly with confidential / sensitive information provided to them by Police?

St. Peter's Prep still get a 0/10 from me and the cops get 10/10 for giving the news reporter no ammunition for their news story.
The school could have been better served with a PR specialist!

fat-ass-bike wrote:
Sad to hear, however the school is clearly the biggest ass here - The Police made no comment due to the age of the child (minor / juvenile), the Father and Son made no comment, yet the school wanted to expose the kid.

It should have been resolved behind closed doors - Now the kid will have a difficult few years ahead of him before he gets to university and this will follow / haunt him for life.

The school gets a 0/10 and has shown to be the immature one here, when they could have helped this kid review and learn from his stupid actions.

Police 10/10 and Parent 10/10

Rorschach wrote:
It's all about allocating his time where it will do the most good politically. It's clear Christie the Hutt will be reelected alas.

sepecat wrote:
Jersey City man with 2 public jobs charged with DWI; 3.5 times over legal limit: cops

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal

A County Prep High School teacher who moonlights as a full-time Jersey City Parking Authority worker was arrested and charged with drunken driving on Sunday night after police say he swiped parked cars on Summit Avenue and then crashed into a utility pole.

Joseph Curran, 53, of Sherman Place, was charged with driving while intoxicated and failure to exhibit documents. Curran had a blood-alcohol level of 0.28, three-and-a-half times higher than the legal limit, police allege.

He earns $61,653 as a County Prep teacher and $74,798 as a JCPA official.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... driving.html#incart_river

ianmac47 wrote:
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Monroe wrote:

The numbers (and points) are stupid. Christie didn't 'lose', for example, $3 billion dollars in transportation funds for the Tunnel to Macy's Basement.

He saved MANY billions of dollars in cost overruns that NJ taxpayers would SOLELY be on the hook for, as the other stakeholders in the project refused to share the pain of the inevitable extra costs. You may research the Big Dig overruns in Boston if you'd like to see the pain that would have been inflicted upon us.

That's just one of many errors/distortions in the slanted link.

Carry on.

Monroe, you ignorant slut. Christie in fact lost several hundred million dollars of the ARC money that needed to be repaid, plus legal fees, plus $18 billion in real estate values that won't be realized without better train access. Also, NJ lost all the tax revenue from the high paid white collar workers who won't be living in New Jersey because they can't commute to Manhattan by train.

Also, the misnomer "train to Macy's basement" is the sort of distinction only made by fat suburban nimrods who drive from one end of the Short Hills Mall to the other instead of walking through it. The entrance to the new tracks would have been across the street from the existing entrance to Penn Station-- true. But that won't be any farther away than NJTransit trains in Moynihan Station, across 8th Avenue. Or put another way, the tracks "under Macy's Basement" would be about as far away as the 1,2,3 trains from the A,C,E trains which both go to Penn Station. On top of that, the Gimbels tunnel connecting Herald Square subway and PATH trains to Penn Station was to reopen, connecting all this transit in one continuous system. You knew that right, or didn't you bother doing your research before reproducing Christie's talking points?

Okay, so yeah, carry on.

Oh, one more thing. Don't ever complain about how crowded the PATH was, is, or will be in the future, because there was $3 billion of federal money that was intended to ease trans hudson commuting that the state isn't getting.

Monroe wrote:
I'd love an answer why, with Democratic Senators for over THIRTY YEARS (I think we can agree to give Chiesa a pass on his short tenure, lol) they have been unable to bring back more than $.53 of each dollar we've sent to Washington.

Using 'onenjorg' methods, I'd say NJ Democratic Senators have lost HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of NJ taxpayer dollars because of their ineptness, inability, or lack of interest to properly serve their residents. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost! Incredible pollution because of lack of money to clean our soil and water!

Why is onenjorg silent on this abuse?

arcy wrote:
You may disagree with her politics and her positions but calling Milly a "union toady" and Barbara a "Botox Barbara" is really uncalled for.

Monroe wrote:
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arcy wrote:
You're right to be skeptical but their work is cited with sources. So you really can't deny the truth in many of their figures.

The numbers (and points) are stupid. Christie didn't 'lose', for example, $3 billion dollars in transportation funds for the Tunnel to Macy's Basement.

He saved MANY billions of dollars in cost overruns that NJ taxpayers would SOLELY be on the hook for, as the other stakeholders in the project refused to share the pain of the inevitable extra costs. You may research the Big Dig overruns in Boston if you'd like to see the pain that would have been inflicted upon us.

That's just one of many errors/distortions in the slanted link.

Carry on.

Bike_Lane wrote:
Eye soar: http://www.patchdevil.com/media/images/popup/0568.jpg

Pebble wrote:
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Monroe wrote:
Republicans war on women? Have you seen the way we have Spitzer and Weiner showing their utter disrespect for women? And the mayor of San Diego? Al Sharpton? John Edwards?

Where is Hilary Clinton calling out the mayoral candidates in her New York?

Give us a break, please.

Weiner, Spitzer, Sharpton, Edwards, Bill Clinton (I'm throwing him in there) may have been womanizers. You could argue that they've been demeaning to the wedding vows they took and the spouses that they said them to. However, not a single one has gone out and passed laws stripping women of their rights.

I at least provided a link demonstrating specific references. You threw out Acorn as if any association should be a negative. You called the SEIU "looney" lefties, without even a shred of a reason.

If you are going to go on some sort of ad hominum attack, it's best you back it up with some form of evidence...