Vigilante wrote:
I am guessing that the victim or a witness would have to file a report in order to substantiate any charges. Usually a cop can file a report/charges if he/she sees the crime. If not then an actual victim's or witness ' statement or overwhelming evidence will set the wheels in motion toward conviction. If they didn't do this than people/victims could just make stuff up to cover another crime or to set-up an innocent person.

NewHeights wrote:
Parkman

If I were attacked and my life were in jepoardy, I wouldnt have any guilt if I shot some low life dirtbags in self defense.

In a sense I guess your right though, if you are beaten into a coma you dont really have to worry about guilt.

Also if you think the governement is designed to protect you and save you life in these types of situations, you might be in for a rude awakening. Attacks like this are usually over in 2-3 minutes at the most. Unless you have police on every street corner the police cannot protect us.

Not to mention this police force of under 1000 offiicers city wide would be completely outmanned if we were to face a riot type situation. You would be on your own for atleast 5 days while corzine decided (from his beachouse) to activate the national guard.

Jeebus wrote:
I didn't want to raise the obvious, so thank you for doing so. Rather than allow properly vetted law abiding citizens their human right to effective self defense our politicians would rather cater to the ignorance of much of the populace.

Said ignorance largely springs from a utopian misunderstanding of human nature. Most of this comes down to an overweening faith in government authority and that being law abiding oneself means that laws prohibiting firearms ownership will eliminate firearms; rather than make criminality safer.

If this poor guy had been packing the most likely outcome would have been that the mob would have fled and he would have got home safely.

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NewHeights wrote:
If the police arrived in 5-7 minutes they might have caught these jokers but it wouldnt have stopped the beating.

NJ needs to wake up and join the other 40 or so states to allow law biding citizens the right to carry.

The police cannot protect every citizen. No police dept in the world can.

jennymayla wrote:
How much do the cameras cost? Is it something the community could potentially cover?

Also, there is no reason to doubt that they are from this area. The kids are in the park all the time.

Last but not least, was there no one else in the park to witness this? What about the guy with the dark suit who seems to be living in the park? I see him there morning noon and night. Maybe he saw something.

Sorry to be all over the place with this post -- it just makes me so angry and disappointed and freaked out.

Vigilante wrote:
Are there really cameras set-up somewhere to monitor the park? Does Dogsh*t refer to dog walkers or the famous grafitti idiot?

coronalime wrote:
This is horrible to hear. Did your dogshit cameras catch any of them?

ihatethiscity wrote:
I think this is that beautiful old building near Tsigonia Paint. The developer, and the city, allowed this old building to be destroyed and turned into an eye sore. The building was built in the 1860's, with beautiful old red brick, and they added an extension onto the building and used disgusting "grey" bricks. It makes the builidng look like some modern day public works project. If the builder would "choose" to that to the outside of his builidng I can't imagine what he has done to the inside. But in the end, it come s down to the city. Developers have proven time and time again that they don't care about this city, they just want to make as much money as they can. The city allowed them to use those orrible bricks on their extension because they don't care either. As citizens, I guess we should count ourselves lucky that they didn't use the pink bricks that have shown up here in recent years.

UrbanRenewal wrote:
Just wondering if the Whitlock Mills development is finally back on track.

While there has been lots of buzz about what's been going on at The Beacon and Canco Lofts, I haven't seen much on the Whitlock Cordage renovations in awhile.

Has anyone out there heard any news about it recently?

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lipzilla wrote:
What about Liberty state park? I believe that they have grills nailed down for public use in that park? Can someone explain how that park can have grilling but VVP does not?

I'm sure there is a legal/technical answer but I would assume it has something to do with the fact that VVP is just one city block long and LSP is acres and acres and acres, with a dedicated grilling area. Makes sense to me.

Armed_and_DWI wrote:
Am I allowed to operate a small charcoal barbeque grill at Van Horst Park?

Couldn't find anything regarding regulation at the parks department website...

PHResident wrote:
I do, though, wonder why Christopher Columbus is not on the list.

Columbus was touted by the city as the main artery to get traffic from the Turnpike to the waterfront. It is in such bad shape, however, that I think that people likely avoid it as much as possible. I know when we exit the turn pike, we get off of Columbus as soon as possible simply due to the condition of the roadway.

If people are indeed avoiding Columbus, that means they are driving on the smaller surface roads and into the residential neighborhoods. I cannot believe that this is faster, but it sure is less stress on a vehicle.

Any chance Columbus will be done sooner than later?

GrovePath wrote:
SPCA shelter ransacked and flooded

Thursday, June 05, 2008
By PAUL KOEPP
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

HCSPCA President Hector Carbajales said yesterday that adoption records and financial papers were ripped up and stolen, as well. He said cages and other supplies were taken in another break-in last month.

Br6dR wrote:
5 years. 4000 dead. $500,000,000,000. And for what?

AvantiGroup wrote:
Recently finished "The Road" by Cormack McCarthy. Loved it. I've also been flipping through "The Westies" (non-fiction) by T.J. English, but I'm on the fence so far. Anybody read something fantastic lately?

I challenge anyone to walk around Hamilton Park and find all these dozens of dog-piles. You won't. Why? Because we clean after our dogs and then some. Certain people with a certain agenda are blatantly lying to advance their agenda. LIARS ALL!