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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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I have to agree F.A.B. I have been following this thread since it was started last week. Funny how in the beginning there were a number of people (perhaps loyalists?) who knew it had been covered in the local papers and/or that these despicable men in uniform had been either been let go, reprimanded or fill in the blank. Around a week has gone by and there is NO proof that this was in the papers at all. Why is that? Hmmmmm......Gotta love the spin people will play when their government jobs could be in jeopardy.

For our Mayor, City Council, Police Chief and all the local papers to cast a blind eye to this and let this kind of behavior slide through the cracks is yet another reason that most of the USA finds NJ to be such a corrupt state. Sad but true.

Come on JC Government what are you going to say about this? Look at all the constituents who have seen this thread and yet none of us have heard your response. Pathetic!!!
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This thread has pointed out individual alliances to the current political administration. Some posters would love to 'blow' this topic which only shows to me their loyalty. A bit like their loyality to posting on different websites and creating multi usernames to pedal that loyality.

Posted on: 2007/10/11 12:19
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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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This is actually a pretty well traveled road. It's right behind Shoprite and BJ's and if you know the short cut it is used a lot. It's also right around the corner from Chili's. Hardly deserted.

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Thats excatly why I started that BJs topic

When cops are privately hired (especially in deserted places like in the video) they can do whatever they want.

They have nobody to supervise them

Posted on: 2007/10/8 13:20
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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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How come no papers are picking this up? Jersey Journal....HELLO!!! I mean this seems like a big issue that needs to really see the light and have some answers. Even if it was a couple years ago this type of behavior by the JC police department is sicking. We should demand answers. One of these heroes urinates in broad day light then clearly staggers away with a gun on his side. Unreal.

Posted on: 2007/10/7 14:54
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Re: Bergen Lafayette: 7 arrested, cops hurt in melee at Booker T. houses -- Angry mob of 200/300 ten
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Who is surprised at this? Between this one and Montgomery Gardens the Jersey City government and the Jersey City cops are completely without a doubt, 100% desensitized to these issues. 100's of incidents a year in these projects, many not even reported.....No..No... let's just let it happen again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.........................Get your collective heads out of your ass*s Jersey City Government. WE DEMAND CHANGES!! GET SERIOUS AND GET TOUGH!!!

Posted on: 2007/9/15 19:13
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Re: Anyone know Donahoe Brothers (contractor)
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I really like these guys. Professional, knowledgeable and actually give a crap about maintaining original features and historical preservation. As close as hiring someone off of 'This Old House' as JC can get.

Posted on: 2007/9/8 3:24
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Re: Bergen Lafayette: New wolfpack outrage said to fit pattern -- Teens break bones of 60-year-old m
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When do we as a society start to really hold the parents accountable for these kids? That said, do they even have control? I assume many of the kids 14-17 actually run the house and do what they please. If the parents can't tell them what to do then who will? These kids who are caught need to do mandatory community service with councilors that can put something positive into their minds. It's seems that could be a whole new job title and one that could actually bring about some change.

Posted on: 2007/8/29 12:23
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Re: Downtown: Bayonne teen attacked by 4 men screaming profanities in Spanish in a dark-colored mini
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When do we as a society start to really hold the parents accountable for these kids? That said, do they even have control? I assume many of the kids 14-17 actually run the house and do what they please. If the parents can't tell them what to do then who will? These kids who are caught need to do mandatory community service with councilors that can put something positive into their minds. It's seems that could be a whole new job title and one that could actually bring about some change.

Posted on: 2007/8/29 11:59
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Re: Robs cabbie, then flees into Montgomery Gardens public housing complex
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Lovely Montgomery Gardens. How nice, an environmentally conscious thief. 5:17AM though? AM? Are there really restaurants serving chicken at that hour over there? And who leaves their vehicle running, unattended over in that part of town? Stupid!

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Robs cabbie, then flees into complex
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

A Jersey City cabbie who had stopped at a chicken restaurant yesterday was robbed at knifepoint by a man who then ran off into the Montgomery Gardens public housing complex, officials said.

At 5:17 a.m., the 39-year-old cab driver left his cab running in front of the restaurant, on Montgomery Street across from the housing complex, and went in to order food, reports said.
When he stepped out to check on the car the robber asked him for a ride across town, reports said. The cabbie told him to wait by the taxi, saying he would drive him as soon as he got his food, reports said.

When the cabbie peeked out a second time he saw the man reach into his cab and turn it off, reports said, adding that the man said: "You are wasting gas." The robber then took out a large knife, walked over and said "Don't let me do it, man. Give me your money," reports said.

The taxi driver handed over $135 and the man ran across Montgomery Street and disappeared into the housing complex, reports said.

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Posted on: 2007/7/24 11:47
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Re: So much for all of you folks who predicted a JC/NYC RE Crash
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I am curious to find out what the state of the already crowded PATH system will be like in the coming years. It's a fact that many NYC workers are movig to JC. If we have hundreds if not thousands of new residents coming here to live but work in NYC how will that effect the real estate market down the road? Once the NYC workers who buy here start complaining about how horrible the lines are in a couple years then who knows what the outcome will really be. I know they have more PATH trains figured in but will it be enough?

Posted on: 2007/6/10 1:56
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Re: Montgomery Gardens: Man shot 5 times by attacker in public housing complex stairwell
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Just another weekend in lovely Montgomery Gardens. Has the city government just become so desensitized to the activities that happen there almost daily that they just let it slide? When will that nightmare of a project finally hear the gentle grumble of a few 5 ton bulldozers?

Posted on: 2007/6/4 15:14
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Re: Greenville: heroin, sawed-off shotgun and an AK-47 found in home
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Lovely Ocean Avenue.

Posted on: 2007/5/16 1:34
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Re: Gunfire on Newark Ave tonight
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Like the old saying goes, "If you have money you will spend it." Same applies to guns and in alot of cases, like money, you end up using it irrationally.

Back when our constitution was wriiten they were not talking about semi-automatic weapons or handguns. The gun rights people have it so wrong. Why they fight so hard to make it easy for people to get guns is amazing to me. It should be damn hard - easily harder than it is to get a drivers license.

Posted on: 2007/5/10 11:09
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Re: Greenville: Only 13, 'pusher' wields knife in theft
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Am I the only one that thinks that part of Ocean Ave. needs 24 hour surveillance? Seriousy, something sh*ty happens there every day.

Posted on: 2007/4/24 11:55
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Re: Parking tickets from day of flood are void !!!!!!
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The mere fact that we had to even deal with this speaks volumes of the serious incompetence of our city. And while I am at it. Why the Hell has Marin Blvd. been riddled with pot- holes for years? Seriously, can anyone answer that for me? Corzine, Healy, etc. have all been down that road many times. It's an utter embarrassment to get out of the Holland Tunnel from NYC and then have to take that first right. Lazy city government! I bet all the auto mechanics on Marin Blvd. have a deal with the city.

Posted on: 2007/4/21 13:22
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Re: Lafayette section: SUFFOCATING DILEMMA -- dank smell of smoldering piles of wood chips
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I run at LSP often and wondered what that odor has been. It has been in the air for a while now. I assumed the wind, from time to time, would change and we get a sampling of Newark's industry. How wrong I was! The photo in the Jersey Journal of the smoke coming off those piles is an outrage. I would be picketing down there today!!!! There must be houses close by that can't even open there windows.

Posted on: 2007/3/15 12:19
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Re: Jersey Avenue entrance to Liberty State Park
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I agree! There needs to be another entrance to the park. I live in Hamilton Park and when I do drive to the park in the AM the traffic coming from Johnston and Pacific is a mess. One entrance is ridiculous and unsafe.

Whoever does opposse this is just a DT snob. Look, we all know there will be a lot more traffic in the coming years so now is the time to help these alrerady clogged streets. I watch school buses just creep along exhaust spewing away.......

I really can't believe the city has not done anything about this until now + our only enterance to the park is discusting and certainly does not reflect what a great open air park we have.

Posted on: 2007/3/1 13:42
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Re: Greenville and West Side: Planning aims to save large Victorian homes - by increasing min. lot s
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Worm, your description of this horrible 'pink brick' epidemic is perfect. We should flush them all down the toilet. What an eye sore.

".......so within a year or two the once ugly pink/white brick looks as though diarrhea was poured onto it only adding to it's awkward presence among the surrounding houses."

I see more and more of these cheap two family buildings every day. We should protest at 30 Montgomery (4th floor.) All the contractors have to gather there to show their plans, etc. "NO PINK BRICK" signs should be made!!!!

The city officials must stop this now. Write your council members and tell them to not allow the pink brick. Christ all Mighty! How much more expensive is something a bit more brown?!

The cheap front doors, horrible design, and horrible railings.....I could on and on......

Venting is good.

Posted on: 2006/12/28 13:56
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Re: Newark Ave & Monmouth robbery foiled by traffic snarl at Newark Ave. & Brunswick - black BB gun
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The definition of Proceeds is, "Money received by the seller of an asset."

In otherwords, the $1 was given in return for not getting a pellet in the ASSet?

Posted on: 2006/12/27 13:48
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COMING SOON: STRAINS ON JC POWER GRID, SEWAGE, ROADS AND TRASH
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"Despite Jersey City's street-cleaning program, the JCMUA annually collects approximately 62,500 cubic feet of trash and grit at its treatment plants. Additionally, more than 72,000 cubic feet of material is removed from the City's catch basins through scheduled maintenance."

Staggering number. I have lived in 5 diffent cities and I have never seen the amount of people who willfully toss wrapers, cans, etc. as they stroll down the street. Does this piss you off too? I have seen parents, with kids in tow, throw trash right on the ground and keep on going. On numerous occasions I have said, "Hey, you dropped something" Or, if it's a kid, I will say, "Ya know, the world is not your trash can." I can only assume, since the streets are cleaned twice a week that theses litter-bugs see no problem with clogging our catch basins and making Jersey City look bad. The authorites need to crack down on people throwing trash on the streets. Start issuing tickets.

Another thing - we all know thousands of new residents, over the next few years, will call Jersey City home. How will this effect our power grid, sewage systems and trash? Not to mention our two lane roadways. Aren't many of these enfrastructures old and dated? We hear about power outages, brown water, grid lock....Perhaps, I am being naive and the authorites are taking this all into account. I also found the statement below regarding the United Water Service contract interesting......."reduce its long term indeptedness by 14M......" Wonder where this money really went?

"Jersey City, New Jersey. Signed a five-year contract with United Water Services for the the management, operation and maintenance of its entire water system. The agreement is designed to enable the city's public utility to reduce its long term indebtedness by $14 million over the contract's term."

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Posted on: 2006/10/21 12:24
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Re: Corzine says he wants the state's 9/11 memorial at Liberty State Park to go ahead as planned
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It's all about the money and how Corzine will look if he back pedals. Millions spent already. His handlers are thinking of what the press will write if he makes a stink about where this memorial is located - PERIOD. You can already read the headlines. "Corzine upsets 9/11 victims......"

Posted on: 2006/10/7 14:48
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Re: OPEN JERSEY AVENUE TO LIBERTY STATE PARK!!
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DanL wrote, "Thank you to the activists who have made Jersey City a tolerable place to live."

While I wholeheartedly agree about many of these causes, especially the Bergen Arches-East Coast Greenway initiative, I still think the activist are looking over the ridiculous and unsafe gridlock that comes from Johnson, Pacific and Grand during rush hour. Drive it some day. My guess is that none of activist are any where near Bergen- Lafayette or Liberty State Park during rush hour and therefore turn a blind eye to this horrible traffic situation.

Look, we can all beat our drums about what is right and wrong, what is more pro-environment or what is less hazerdous, etc. But the bottom line is that something needs to be done to address the esculatiing traffic issues in that area soon. ...very soon.








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It was real enough for a good amount of public money spent on planning studies.

The issue surrounding opening up the footbridge to vehicular traffic is not to deal with existing traffic but the new traffic it would create.

Ask the city to enforce the developer agreements to rehabilitate, fence and light the bridge and adjacent walkways as should have been done more than 5 years ago. This is a good illustration why these developer deals do not work and are not sound tax policy.

Thank you to the activists who have made Jersey City a tolerable place to live. Anything and everything positive to happen in recent times is due to public initiatives, community groups and these "activists".

Thank them for Liberty State Park, the Loew's Theatre, Brennen Courthouse, the trees along Kennedy Blvd., the Literacy Program at the Library, numerous social programs and the list can go on......

Mia's work in this area was the foundation for much of the prevention of the proposed Bergen Arches highway and its preservation, initiatives linking it to the East Coast Greenway and bringing the East Coast Greenway through the Arches, on top of the Embankment to the waterfront.

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Have these "two concerned citizens" forgot to take their paranoia medications?

We're talking about connecting the Phillips Drive and Jersey Ave, for chrissakes, not creating a Robert Moses-like Expressway down the Hudson's Shore.

The stuff that people come up with to protest just for the sake of protesting and feeling self-important - you can't make that stuff up.



Posted on: 2006/2/21 19:40
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Re: OPEN JERSEY AVENUE TO LIBERTY STATE PARK!!
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I totally agree with Stranger. The pathway at the end of Jersey Ave. is crumy at best. The first thing I notice when I enter there is trash, mud and filth. Not a great welcome to this national treasure. Maybe someone kows exactly why this end of Jersey Ave is still so underdeveloped. Again, and I mentioned earlier, that I had heard that there was major chromium contamination there.

I still say widen the road and make the extention. However, limit the times of day that it is opened and by all means do not make it wide enough for delivery trucks. That might ease the tensions of the residents in Van Vorst Park that are so oppossed to this very natural connector to our great park.

Imagine Jersey Ave with a nice paved road, victorian inspired street lights, a narrow two laned bridge across to the park and a significant, worthy entrance sign. The city could offer a contest to the artist community of Jersey City to design this sign.Quote:

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How about making the route a little easier and safer for the people coming from downtown that are using the park- runners, bikers, rollerbladers, pedestrians, etc? Having to travel through a recycling facility on a pitted, gravel strewn, muddy/snowy/icy surface dodging dumptrucks is not exactly a welcoming entrance to the park.

There needs to be a paved, lighted path without truck traffic from the end of Jersey Ave., across the canal to LSP. This shouldn't be that difficult or expensive. Who owns that stretch of gravel anyway? Can the city require improvements or are we at the mercy of a junkyard?

Posted on: 2006/2/19 15:27
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Re: OPEN JERSEY AVENUE TO LIBERTY STATE PARK!!
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When I started this topic I had know idea that there was this much debate. I just wanted an easier access to the park to go jogging. Further, I just assumed, since it seems like such a likely connector, that it was being held up because of the chromium contamination and just general construction delays.

Kermit42 makes some good points. I, too, feel that vehicles are given to much priority. To adress that, I commented earlier about how in certain cities (after a Google query) I found that Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Mpls have on/off ramp issues and therefore limit their use during certain times. If the 14C exit, is bringing in a large amount of commuters who are trying to navigate through, already jammed surface steets, just to get to the Holland tunnel then the problem is the Turnpike and the 78. I also realized that the Park and Ride at the Liberty State Park Light Rail stop is also a major reason people are taking exit 14C. So, perhaps they build a road that parralles the existing off ramp road to spit you right into the parpking lot. that will aliviate alot of these people just waiting to get to the parking lot. The other spolution would be to limit the time that this potential Jersey Ave/Phillips extention would be open.

For all of us here to have a better way of life, keeping in mind that more traffic is coming, there needs to be an extention of some sort built to alliviate this gridlock every single work day. When I drive that way in the morning from Grand to Pacific to Johnson it is just a joke! What exists now is one way roads, jammed with vehicles, full of potholes, leading to a park that has one of the worlds most famous statues. It's discusting and sad.

Why doesn't the city want a beautiful entrance to this park?

Posted on: 2006/2/18 22:12
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Re: OPEN JERSEY AVENUE TO LIBERTY STATE PARK!!
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It seems this extention is a big issue. I just want to get into the park easier. Plus for Liberty State Park to not have a proper welcoming entrance of any kind is pretty sad.

AllanSommerman said, "I think the concern is that an auto connection will result in cars leaving the turnpike and using Jersey Avenue as a route to the Holland Tunnel. I was suprised by this. It seems that these commuters would rather stay on until Comumbus Ave or the Holland Tunnel rather then get off at 14C and end up navigating through the already congested city streets to get to the Holland tunnel. Especially, when/if this gets opened. But I do not commute from the West so I do not really know what the best route is.

There are many ways to limit exit ramp traffic as well. I have lived in cities where some exit ramps are not even availble during rush hour so that the traffic flow continues to the next off ramp. This also happens at large sporting events when large crowds come and go.

I think injcsince81 made some good points. It is not fair that that area is getting slammed with all the traffic. Just another reason why they need another route for this off ramp traffic at 14C. Perhaps limiting that off-ramp will be a start. I guess we will just have to see.Quote:

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Not connecting the Philips drive and Jersey avenue puts all the traffic into the densely-populated, poor area of the city (bergen-Lafayette).

Sounds like environmental racism to me.

The extension was proposed before, but "activists" like Mia Scanga successfully fought against it.

I am for it, and am willing to speak up for it if it ever comes up again.

But it makes too much sense, so it probably won't happen.

My hope is that the future Liberty Harbor North residents will push for it, and that the Bergen-Lafayette residents will demand a stop to the ridiculous detour through their neighborhood.

And, BTW, the argument about people using it as a short-cut for Holland Tunnel is a BS argument - that's what the Columbus Drive exit is for... (grin).


Posted on: 2006/2/18 16:14
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OPEN JERSEY AVENUE TO LIBERTY STATE PARK!!
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I am getting tired of driving from my house (Hamilton Park)to Grand to Pacific to Johnson in the mornings to get to Liberty State Park. I enjoy running over there and while the path at the end of Jersey Ave. works fine in good weather (though it is a bit creepy) during the colder months I prefer to drive the run.

It seems that all they need to do at the end of Jersey Ave. is to slightly widened it. I heard that area has chromium contamination but once that is cleaned up they will eventually open it.

As this town gets even more populated with more vehicles my already long 1.7 mile commute to the park will even take longer.


Anyone know about this???

Posted on: 2006/2/18 13:54
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Re: Liberty Animal Shelter
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The "why" part of your question GrovePath is because of the Liberty Humane Societies (LHS) proximity to the Greenville and Bergen Lafayette sections of Jersey City. These areas are stocked full of pitbulls. It's the dog of choice in these sections.

I have heard that many of these poor animals in this area are often the ones that could not match up in a fight and were essentially tossed away. The city needs to take a stronger stand on pitbull fighting and if you are caught fighting a pitbull then you will not be allowed to own another one. That goes for the pitbulls that have had histories of aggressive behavior. Sporting a macho, bad-ass dog that could fly off the handle and hurt someone is a person with little intelligence. To be fair, I am not talking about all pitbull owners. Only the ones that fight them or walk, in public, a knowling ill-mannered onen.

Until this area changes the main dog for adoption at the LHS will be the pitbull. Perhaps the neighboring humane societies could shuffle other breeds of dogs around for more of a selection.



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Why is the Liberty Animal Shelter (LAS) so big on placing pit bulls and dogs bred to fight into homes in Jersey City. It seems like this is over 80% of what the LAS does. These dogs can hurt children and other people -- every day there is another news story about some poor person mauled or killed by these type of dogs.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=dog+attack

It is only a matter of time till someone in JC is hurt or killed by a dog from LAS.

And I know, I've heard it all before! "Your Pit Bull is different!" "It's not the breed it's the owners!"

Well all I can tell you is read the news!

Talk about JC getting sued!

Posted on: 2006/2/2 14:20
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