No more teen shenanigans, drinking and brawling. Banned!
Good law. But now you have to enforce it and if the public hisses at it they will break it and there aren’t enough cops to cover the area involved. Remember the beaches in LA during covid and the mask mandate? Cape May has made cops babysiters with the new law. And even if they go to the top limit of the fine, $2K, for a while the criminal intent of the minors out there will not have any effect as the parents of these animnals don’t care or want to be responsibile. So any impact will be down the road when money and a little jail time for the minor isn’t scary. They were going to jail anyway with what they were already doing and the gangs have a lot more than the fine in their petty cash.
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Punish everyone for the acts of a few.
Cape May putting a curfew on minors in public spaces during peak season is common-sense order. Parents and towns have every right to set boundaries when crowds and behavior get out of hand. Freedom doesn’t mean chaos.
Cape may don’t mess around. It is a beautiful spot to vacation.
And it is more a defense than fixing a problem as Cape May hasn’t had the problem the other resorts have had.
White teens punished for Black teens consistent nasty ass culture.
Everyone has to be penalized for the actions of the usual group.
They’ll move.
Hometown of the famous JAYSKI. And they decide we need to crack down on these crazy teens.
Curfew crackdown is a sane thing for teenagers because night time sometimes end up being prison time.
Feeling bold and being stupid is a bad mixture.
The Jersey shore has plenty of other drinking, gambling, amusement park, boardwalk, greasy fries and pizza, game arcade and dive bar towns, especially Wildwood.
Cape May started out at a Christian retreat and has always been a very quiet town, with its oldest part featuring dozens of beautiful Victorian rooming houses in the “gingerbread” style. Its small promenade has things like ice cream or candy shops and bike rental, not bars or nightclubs. Its Sunset Beach plays the National Anthem at a flag lowering ceremony every evening at dusk.
Families go there for the lack of anything to do other than enjoy one’s children or spouse, the nature trail, and the quiet atmosphere. It’s entirely right to try to hold onto its historic ethos.
black excellence at the shore
Has Cape May gone off the rails?
We took some long weekends there back in the day. Lovely place. It’s probably been 25 years or more, but the attitude was clearly all about keeping the trash out of town and well up the coast.
It’s easy to ruin a place if the wrong people get elected.
“stop troublemakers from other parts of the Jersey Shore “
Here’s the tell. Likely Atlantic City.