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...
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.
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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
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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.
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