NYC/NJ have this thing for dumb signs.
Posted on 05/26/2007 5:27:16 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Welcome to the Jersey Shore! Have a great time, but please don't dig too deeply in the sand in Surf City (you could get blown up), feed the seagulls in Ocean City (you could catch a disease), or draw dirty pictures in the sand in Belmar (it's rude).
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"I used to take pictures of signs at the entrance to beaches that had long lists of all the things you couldn't do," said Dery Bennett, head of the American Littoral Society's Sandy Hook chapter. "There was one with a big word `NO' in red letters at the top and all these things listed underneath it, and at the bottom, someone put tape on it and wrote in `fun allowed.'"
Many of the beach towns on Long Beach Island, one of New Jersey's most popular summer vacation spots, have laws prohibiting people from digging deeper than 12 inches in the sand. They stem from an accident several years ago in which a teenager died when a deep hole he was digging collapsed, burying him.
This year, the prohibition is for a different reason: More than 1,000 pieces of unexploded World War I-era military munitions were unwittingly pumped ashore during a winter beach replenishment project decades after being dumped at sea. Authorities say they've removed everything they could, but can't guarantee more munitions don't remain hidden.
"How can you tell a kid not to dig in the sand?" asked Faith O'Dell, who lives near the beach in Surf City, where most of the fuses were found. "It's their nature, it's what kids do. And when your kid says, `Why, Mommy, why can't I dig in the sand?' what do you tell them, that they could blow themselves up?"
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Jersey shore ping...
The forests and once rugged trailes are maintained and littered with signs telling people where to go, where not to go, how to behave and what to wear.
With all the heavy scavenging the Odyssey Marine Exploration is doing, I wonder if it is the gold or the weapons that someone is really after.
>>>RE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1840121/posts?page=4#4
The story below is code named, The Black Swan. This really sounds similar to the stories I’ve heard from the scuba divers/treasure hunters.
Note, this is from an undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean. Timing is about the same as the WW1 weapons story.
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Odyssey Marine Exploration Soars After Atlantic Ocean Discovery
Friday, May 18, 2007; Posted: 04:29 PM
(RTTNews) - Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMR | charts | news | PowerRating) soared to a new high after a huge ship wreck discovery in the Atlantic Ocean. The stock gapped open higher, but drifted back in the first half hour. It made back the losses in the next 15 minutes, though, and then stabilized for the day. The stock closed at $8.32, up $3.72.
On Friday, the company said it has completed the pre-disturbance archaeological survey and preliminary excavation of a Colonial period shipwreck site code-named “Black Swan” in an undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean. The artifacts recovered from the site include over 500,000 silver coins weighing more than 17 tons, hundreds of gold coins, worked gold, and other artifacts. All recovered items have been legally imported into the Unites States and placed in a secure, undisclosed location where they are undergoing conservation and documentation.
Interesting point about gold vs weapons. Thanks.
NYC/NJ have this thing for dumb signs.
Whenever I think of the Jersey Shore I think of used syringes washing up on the beach.
It is a bit more than that—but that did happen (as it happened in some NY beaches).
I actually stopped in Belmar to get some coffee. After waiting forever behind a long line of hung-over teens, I found that the Dunkin' Donuts was staffed entirely with people from...POLAND!
the PR of NJ. pretty soon it will be against the law to sunbathe. remember, the UV rays are harmful and the gubbermint knows what’s best. Wait until bloomberg or corzine become president. they will have to put all we she people in our places. they know what’s good for us. BENNY’s go home.
was lizol there?
Usually, if I hear Polish, it is from the lips of a waitress in Manhattan talking to the other waitress (lots of Polish ladies work as waitresses in NYC).
We never saw anything like that.We own a place down here for 15 years.We are in Ocean City and down here now.Dry town.
thanks.....looking at OMR purely from an investors stance might prove interesting.....I don’t know if this poster wrote this or found it somewhere....responses to this message are at “next message” hotlink at lower right
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_O/threadview?m=tm&bn=25329&tid=31670&mid=31670&tof=37&frt=2
OMR already is partnered with a satellite. So the mapping from what I have read is done. I wonder if the ‘capital intensive’ is the Cintra deal with toll roads?
I’ll be going to my childhood stomping grounds, Lavallette, next Thursday. I’ll have to remember not to have fun.
You’re living way in the past. That happened for a couple of years back in the mid to late 80’s during the tom kean administration. It turns out that the culprit was the government of New York City they were ineffective in the way of handling their refuse and storm drainage. Once the state of nj and the feds. found out the source, the problem was solved. NY is the real garbage state and it floated here to nj. The Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988, stopped most ocean dumping. I still prefer some of the beaches in florida: condos are half the price of New Jersey’s, no lifeguards, showers and a hose at each condo to wash off the sand, beach fires, drinking, kite flying all allowed and all for free, no beach fees, no tolls, no ez-pass, no traffic on the parkway.
Route 1 to Route 18 or 287 to Route 18 gets you around EZPass/Tolls.
We put showers and foot baths on our beach.
I bet we bumped into each other a time or two.
I use to hang out at an arcade on 35North in Lavelette.
Um, no arcades when I was there. But did you go to the Seaside Heights boardwalk? A kid’s paradise.
Barnacle Bill’s is where I always took my bike to. That area is a little hazy as to whether it is Lavallette or Seaside Hts.
We have had a house for over 30 years down there.
We put showers and foot baths on our beach. >>
finally. and what’s the daily rate to swim on the beach?
Florida had showers as early as 1970 and probably before that. It’s about time NJ gets with the program. I can’t see how millions pay for and enjoy sand and sticky salt water on themselves all day long.
>>>finally. and what’s the daily rate to swim on the beach?
Ours isn’t a public beach. I’ve never been on the public beaches so I don’t know what the current rate it.
The shower was my first activism. I was 4 or 5 years old when I walked the entire island collecting signatures on a petition to have our club pay for showers to be installed. I also had to get up early for the next 3 to 4 years to go clean up the beach in the morning to help pay for the showers. I had volunteered to do that to try to offset the costs.
“Whenever I think of the Jersey Shore I think of used syringes washing up on the beach.”
I’ve lived here for 30 years. Never knew anyone who saw one of those! In fact, I visit (often) a lovely town and beautiful beach on the Jersey Shore. No complaints!
I have scuba diver friends that always went down there looking for treasure that is part of a wreck. There are gold coins packed in plastic containers.'Gold coins packed in plastic containers'?
From what era in our past?
1970?
“I’ll be going to my childhood stomping grounds, Lavallette, next Thursday.”
I love that town! My daughter lives there, and I’ll be going to my grandson’s baseball game next Thursday. I’m there about once a week....be sure to wave! :)
“Barnacle Bill’s is where I always took my bike to. That area is a little hazy as to whether it is Lavallette or Seaside Hts.”
Barnacle Bill’s is in Ortley Beach, which is the town south of Lavallette.
That was my error. They weren’t packed in plastic containers. They were packed in wax balls. I mistranslated.
The address points to Seaside Heights though.
Okay ... I’m just ‘reading for comprehension’ and that didn’t compute!
OOPS! I was thinking of this one. This one is on 35 North in Ortley. You’re right. I see there’s one in Seaside Heights, also.
http://www.shorebiz.com/barnacle/barnaclebill.htm
I had never seen ‘wax ball’ signed either. I had to get a second translation ;)
How is your back?
They might have opened a second location. Alot of 35 has changed. Lots of old stomping grounds have become condos.
Doing much better; just over-worked, 10 - 12 hrs/day on the ‘job’ six days a week so very little time the last couple yrs to do anything ‘cept survive the ‘job’.
My kids are waiting to leave for the movies. Back later.
If you tell them that, they'll be digging twice as fast. If someone had told me when I was that age there were WWI munitions buried somewhere, I would have been digging until they pulled me away!
I was 4 or 5 years old when I walked the entire island collecting signatures on a petition to have our club pay for showers to be installed. >>>
Great Job!! And so young, too.
I loved seaside heights, and still do. It’s just the right size with the right rides and wheels. too bad they got rid of the fun house.
The original shower had a plack with my name on it. It has long been updated; but it was a proud moment.
Plaque?
(As in a Commemorative plaque, a flat ornamental plate or tablet fixed to a wall, used to mark an occasion, event or person.)
LOL! Yes, plaque.
Oh, we'll be watching you... crack one smile and you're in the slammer, sister!
LOL!! ;-)
Uh, have you been to Miami Beach lately? Boca Raton? Even Delray Beach and Hollywood? Even with the recent correction, you will be shelling out a considerable number of sheckles, at least in South Florida, for a condo.
I love Lucy!
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