GrovePath wrote:
I would just be happy if they could ban school kids from going out of the school at lunchtime.

tern wrote:
I caught two young scallywags trying to steal the seat from my daughter's bike last week.

It was three young boys in Cordero school uniform, aged 8-12, one white, one hispanic, and one black.

I was sitting in my car outside my house on 8th street next to Basic, looked over and saw the boys bending down by my gate, it took me a few seconds to relaise what was going on, they had their hands through the fence working the seat off.

I threw my door open and sprang from my vehicle, the kids looked round in freeze frame for an instant while they digested the situation, they leapt up petrified and scattered dropping everything as they ran.

One boy's Nike sneaker fell off as he fled, the other left behind the 4 year's old pink princess style girl's bicycle he had been riding, together with an additional bicycle seat from some other small girl's bicycle.

As they now had 20 yards on me I secured my daughter's bicycle, and got on my own bike, then circled round the block onto Manilla which was the direction they were headed. Two of them were standing at 6th and Manilla and saw me coming on my bike when I was about a block away, they belted North on Manilla, bizarrely pulling off their Cordero T-shirts as they ran and flinging them onto the sidewalk. They managed to beat me round the corner into the subisdised housing on the East side of Manilla (round about 4th-5th street), by the time I rounded the corner they were nowhere to be seen.

In summary, I now have a small girl's pink princess style bicycle suitable for a 3-4 years of age (without stabilisers), plus a spare seat for another girl's bicycle. If anyone recognises these, or knows anyone who has had a young girl's bicycle stolen, let me know.

Robin.

regulator wrote:
when i was voting in ward C this morning fulop was there with a team of angels around him. they recited verses from the book of psalms and told me they wouldnt stop unless i voted for him.

jennymayla wrote:
So while we're at it...

They should also start ticketing jaywalkers. Particularly on Montgomery, Newark, and Communipaw, where at any given moment some dope strolls across the street in the middle of the block at a leisurely pace, normally on a cell phone, finger ready to flip you off in the process. This also include teenagers and small kids, who see people do it all the time and therefore think it's ok.

I almost pegged a kid on Bright Street the other day but I slammed on my breaks (thus proving it's hard but not impossible to stop on a dime at 25 mph) and avoided her. I rolled down my window to tell her to be careful and she just laughed at me, while her friends laughed on the sidewalk. Yes, funny stuff, sweetheart.

And also? I would like tickets issued to the people who double park to party in their car on Manila.

Thank you.

PS: Just one more thing. If it's pouring rain and I am trying to cross the street and you are warm and dry in your big SUV with Flo-Rida blaring and I can hear the bass from your car pounding in my own heart, can you just please let me cross the street while I still have the "walk" sign and since it's raining before you try to turn right from Grove onto Columbus? Please????

After Matos was arrested police found the victim's checkbook in his back pocket; Matos said, "I was going to give it back," reports said.

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shortsell wrote:
I know this question is going to make me sound like a ditz, but is the bus company NJtransit or mta?

WHAT? MTA? For Christ Sake!. MTA? Do you know where you are? MTA is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. It is a NYC agency. When you cross the river going west, you are in NJ. There is no MTA here. Here's a helpful tip. You see the NJ in front of NJTransit? That's a hint. It means New Jersey. Get it?

fat-ass-bike wrote:
The thing that annoys me the most is parents that smoke in their cars with their kids are in the back seat - I call that neglect and endangering children. The fines should be in the $1000's.

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xplanted wrote:
I love Jersey City in the few months I've been here. But the level of apathy among the government (and many of the people is shocking). I have no idea what to do, but speaking from experience, block meeting don't do anything. But I'd don't see the point in wearing goofy berets and baseball jackets.

I want to nip this crap (like people saying drug dealers hang on their stoop or the local parks) in the ass, but there seems no way to do it, and if the cops are as bad as they everyone says they are (which I don't exactly buy...) I don't know where to start.

Thanks for all the feedback!

There seems to be a lot of surprise reactions from the wide-eyed new residents of Jersey City. Perhaps they should have done their homework prior to setting up camp here. On the surface J.C. looks like a paradise, what drew these new residents here in the first place? Bret Schundler a complete opposite of what J.C. resembled at the time of his first election put J.C. on the map. But with mixed income neighborhoods it's going to be tough to live side by side with the haves & have nots.

K-Lo wrote:
My son, a junior at McNair, said the owner remembered each time the way my son liked his sandwiches.

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greenville wrote:
There's a freaking police station 4 or 5 buildings from this, unbelievable!

I think they have a supect.