TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: new-jersey

  • Your winner and NEW champion…

    When It Comes to Crime, Camden Is No. 2 in U.S.:

    New Orleans has been ranked the most crime-ridden city in the U.S. beating such luminaries as Detroit and Gary, Indiana, but that’s not the real story.

    The real story is that the perennial favorite from my home state of New Jersey has been ranked #2. That’s right, after a few rebuilding years after being ranked first two years in a row Camden, New Jersey has almost returned to the top spot.

    I guess they’ll have to start a few more fires next year. I also like what I read in the FARK thread yesterday that one day Camden will one day jump the river and murder Philadelphia.

  • NJ flu-shot mandate for preschoolers draws outcry

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    As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day-care centers. The decision should be the parents’, not the state’s, they contend.

    “This is not an anti-vaccine rally — it’s a freedom of choice rally,” said one of the organizers, Louise Habakus. “This one-size-fits-all approach is really very anti-American.”

    Yet check out the sign…

    This wasn’t a freedom of choice rally, it was a junk science rally. I applaud New Jersey for trying to prevent a pandemic. Personally, if I ran a daycare I’d say no vaccine no daycare.

  • Atlantic City craigslist pimp convicted

    Pleasantville man found guilty of prostituting underage teen girls from Allentown, Pa. in Atlantic City:

    27-year-old Kevin R. Mayfield of Pleasantville, NJ was convicted yesterday of pimping out minor girls on craigslist in Atlantic City.

    Mayfield also took nude pictures of the girls to use on the craigslist ad.

    Mayfield’s cohort was 25-year-old Casson L. Coward who pleaded guilty back in 2007 and was sentenced to 10 years for his part.

    Again I say who says there are no victims? Are two underage girls not victims enough for you?

  • Closing of last Margate mini-golf par for the course

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    Part of me is sad because I used to play at this mini-golf course as a kid and I hate that Absecon Island is becoming nothing but condos. However part of me is sadistically happy because the people who ran it always treated me like crap. They ripped me off for more than one free game.

  • NJ real estate scam submitted by reader

    I received the following e-mail from Amber in New Jersey about a scam that someone tried to pull on her while looking for an apartment on craigslist…

    The guy from the UK used this email: “Alan Erickson” alan.ercks@gmail.com. Now when suspicions arose because I’d asked him to call me a number of times or to send his number for me to call and he never answered certain questions, kept pushing the money wires and some bullshit third party parcel service that’s blacklisted from the Better Business Bureau (www.tnt.com) I googled his name and found a broker in New Jersey who dealt in apartments in and around Montclair where our supposed apt was. I thought….hmm, I’ll call him, sort of beat him to the punch and so I left a message. The REAL Alan Erickson called me back and explained that this guy had done this to many people, and he’s tried to track the guy down and get him for identity theft/fraud. The ad has been removed because we reported for abuse by myself and the real Alan…so I wish I’d have saved it. Basically, if it is too good to be true…on Craig’s List, it probably is.

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  • Things are afoot at Wawa

    Police arrest Pa. teen in Margate through internet sex sting:

    19-year-old Michael Williams of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania was arrested in Margate, NJ over this past weekend for trying to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex.

    Williams had met the 13-year-old girl over MySpace and prior to his arrest had sex with the girl. The girl’s mother found out and notified the local police. Police then posed as the 13-year-old and arranged for Williams to meet the ‘girl’ at a Wawa (convenience store) parking lot where he was promptly arrested.

  • Garden State Creeper

    Plainsboro man charged with luring 13-year-old via MySpace:

    28-year-old Derek McDonough of Plainsboro, New Jersey was arrested on charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on MySpace.

    If the allegations are true then McDonnough is a loser and I’m sure someone who knows him will give us some excuse. And if they do they might have a surprise coming their way but I’ll save that for later. Anyway, I have an issue with the girl’s parents because of this quote…

    …the girl’s parents became suspicious about their daughter’s internet activity…

    If you haven’t figured it out by now you should be suspicious of all your teen’s internet activities. They’re either up to something or they’re not savvy enough to protect themselves from predators.

  • NJ sex offenders arrested

    Sex offenders nabbed on MySpace and Facebook:

    The state of New Jersey has arrested 3 sex offenders that were found to be on MySpace and Facebook.

    The perpetrators were Stanton Ulmer, 32, of Neptune Township, Felice Black, 24, of Paterson, and Pietro Parisi, 34, of Westville.

    While the New Jersey AG, Anne Milgram, is busy patting herself on the back I think this shows that recent legislation is not keeping sexual predators off social networks.

  • Hammonton’s Ideal store to close

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    I’m kind of sad about this.

    I never shopped there or anything but anyone who grew up in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area should remember their jingle.

    “Take the wheel of your automobile and swing on down to…Ideal”

    They don’t make ’em like that anymore.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k2A26cOkzg&w=420&h=315]

  • No justice for Megan Kanka

    No justice for Megan Kanka

    ‘Megan’s Law’ killer escapes death under N.J. execution ban:

    The man who raped and killed 7-year-old Megan Kanka — the 1994 crime that inspired “Megan’s Law” — is one of eight men whose sentences were commuted to life in prison this week as part of New Jersey’s new ban on execution.

    The Garden State on Monday became the first state in more than three decades to abolish the death penalty after a commission ruled the punishment is “inconsistent with evolving standards of decency.”

    Gov. Jon Corzine the day before commuted the sentences of eight men sitting on the state’s death row. They will now serve life in prison without parole, according to the governor’s office.

    Among the eight is Jesse Timmendequas, 46, who was sentenced to death in June 1997 for Megan’s murder.

    Prosecutors said Timmendequas lured Megan to his home by saying he wanted to show her a puppy. He then raped her, beat her and strangled her with a belt. A day later, he led police to her body.

    I would have been content if New Jersey executed this scumbag, then abolished the death penalty. Thanks a lot, Gov. Corzine for pissing on the grave of Megan Kanka.