Official New Jersey News Thread

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by MasterShake29, Jan 5, 2007.

  1. MasterShake29

    MasterShake29 Member+

    Oct 28, 2001
    Jersey City, NJ
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Here's your official news thread for the Garden State, proudly one of two states where residents can't be trusted to pump their own gas.

    Sen. Bob Menendez (D) gets us started.

    Let's hold him to that.
     
  2. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
    Davis, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    In New Jersey, its only a crime if you get caught.

    --Bob Dylan
     
  3. Claymore

    Claymore Member

    Jul 9, 2000
    Montgomery Vlg, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Can someone explain that?
     
  4. Footer Phooter

    Jul 23, 2000
    Falls Church, VA
    And are we supposed to tip the "fuel dispensation specialist"?
     
  5. MasterShake29

    MasterShake29 Member+

    Oct 28, 2001
    Jersey City, NJ
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Surprisingly no.

    This actually came up for discussion last summer. One state Senator suggested it might be time to get crazy and let people pump their own gas. The silence was deafening, and that was the end of that.
     
  6. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
    Davis, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Oregon and New Jersey require attendants to pump gas. Mere citizens are prohibited from doing it on their own.
     
  7. DoctorD

    DoctorD Member+

    Sep 29, 2002
    MidAtlantic
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    NJ has cheap gas and attendants pump your gas for you.

    Simply wonderful.
     
  8. Kobranzilla

    Kobranzilla Member

    Sep 6, 2001
    NY F'in City
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    yes but they collect the taxes they don't charge you at the pump on the Turnpike and Parkway

    and in inflated prices for hairspray and valeur track suits
     
  9. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    And for those not living in NJ, if you see a clueless man or woman sticking the nozzle in the exhaust pipe at your local fill er up.......you know where they're from.
     
  10. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    When I first moved up here, more than once I would pull up to the pump at an Oregon gas station and get out and start trying to pump my gas. The attendants would have to shoo me away.

    I actually don't mind it anymore. Gas on the Oregon side of the river isn't more expensive than the gas on the Washington side and I don't have to get rained on.

    Still, it's retarded.
     
  11. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    I love it. Creates jobs for surly teenagers & foreigners, no dirty hands or ass-like smell. And thanks to the refineries by the Turnpike, NJ's gas is like 50 cents cheaper per gallon than in NYC. We'll never get rid of it.
     
  12. Norsk Troll

    Norsk Troll Member+

    Sep 7, 2000
    Central NJ
    Yeah, but it was a New York ditz in my office who filled her car up with diesel.
     
  13. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Happened to a co-workers wife too (Jersey resident). Except she was 250 miles from home. D'oh!
     
  14. MasterShake29

    MasterShake29 Member+

    Oct 28, 2001
    Jersey City, NJ
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well, it's an obvious infringement on freedom, and thus complete crap.

    Part of the price disparity is due to NJ's relatively low gas taxes, and NYC just being insanely expensive for anything.
     
  15. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    OK - you can serve yourself in a restaurant too. But why bother. Let the grease monkeys handle the greasy stuff IMO. :)
     
  16. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    Ahhhh......The Daily Show's take on this. Where would we be? Stunning......

    [youtube]uXNqh_UMqVo[/youtube]
     
  17. MasterShake29

    MasterShake29 Member+

    Oct 28, 2001
    Jersey City, NJ
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Gov. Jon Corzine (D) gives his State of the State speech today at noon ET in Trenton.
     
  18. obie

    obie New Member

    Nov 18, 1998
    NY, NY
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Corzine wanted to "test" it by making some -- not all -- of the gas islands at some -- not all -- of the Turnpike rest stops self-serve, to see if the price would be lower if NJ allowed self-serve. You would have thought that Corzine told the state that he demanded human sacrifice rituals into the Raritan River. Totally insane...
     
  19. Claymore

    Claymore Member

    Jul 9, 2000
    Montgomery Vlg, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Is that guy in the Daily Show clip for real?
     
  20. MasterShake29

    MasterShake29 Member+

    Oct 28, 2001
    Jersey City, NJ
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It was amazing. The State Senator on the clip was the only politician other than Corzine that would speak for the proposal.

    But I think we have too much freedom and liberty in New Jersey. Why should master government give us more?
     
  21. MasterShake29

    MasterShake29 Member+

    Oct 28, 2001
    Jersey City, NJ
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    From the New Jersey State Constitution:

    I kid you not.

    Now, I have no clue how that reconciles with more than 20 people voting in the latest election cycle.

    Apparently some politician noticed this, and they're going to start the process to remove the word idiot.
     
  22. JBigjake

    JBigjake Member+

    Nov 16, 2003
    Official New Jersey Ironic News Thread

    Mayor of Nation's Safest Town Pleads Guilty!
    http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070109/NEWS/701090318
    "Scarpelli, 67, who abruptly resigned as mayor last month after almost 13 years, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court ... that he took more than $5,000 in bribes between 1998 and 2003 from an unnamed developer with an expectation he would use his official position to assist in obtaining building approvals."
    Considering the way that homes & developments have been squeezed in, I'm not surprised.
    Seems like the most crooks have been located inside Town Hall! A previous mayor also resigned while under investigation & the Director of Public Works pled guilty to thefts & payoffs last year!
     
  23. Claymore

    Claymore Member

    Jul 9, 2000
    Montgomery Vlg, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    $5000 over seven years? Either they didn't find all the money, or that guy could be bought for a Grand Slam breakfast at Denny's.
     
  24. MasterShake29

    MasterShake29 Member+

    Oct 28, 2001
    Jersey City, NJ
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Official New Jersey Ironic News Thread

    That's one way to keep criminals off the streets.

    New Jersey has an insane number of towns and school districts, so it has an insane number of politicans, and thus more opportunity for corruption.
     
  25. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 21, 2002
    Brooklyn
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Official New Jersey Ironic News Thread

    Agreed. This state need some serious ass consolidation. Why is it that Long Island can have county wide police forces and NJ has to have a different department in each itty bitty town?
     

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