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Arrogant Abuse of the Summer #1 & #2

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You know when summer hits Deal, New Jersey when the New Yorkers are keeping you up at all hours of the night. Tonight, we had the first gathering of 10 – 15 year olds outside of our window. The cops were called and the kids dispersed a little after midnight. Completely ridiculous that kids this age are allowed to prowl around town without any supervision.

And even more ridiculous that the Ocean Township Police Department told them to just “go home” when – if they were college students – they would have called in the paddy wagon (don’t laugh, I’ve seen it happen before).

Now, at about 2:30am, there’s no way you can sleep because three and a half blocks away a bunch of the older New Yorkers are having a dance club party such that the bass on their music can be heard blocks away. We just drove by and there were probably 50 people standing OUTSIDE of the house.

Again, I’ve seen college parties in this area get broken up with less than half of that amount of people and the party completely contained to a living room or a basement. This party is taking place outside of a house, on a main road, with music that you can hear more than 3 blocks away…

No paddy wagon, no police, nothing.

Anyone who doesn’t think that there is a preconceived dictate in this town to “go after” college students and “leave the New Yorkers alone” is out of their mind.

And here we go again, with another “fantastic” summer in Deal… Ugh…

Hunting for a New Home Sucks in Monmouth County

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Those of you that know me are aware that my lease on my current apartment expires at the end of May and that I am NOT looking to renew it. For the first time in three years I’m going to have to get up and move to a new location. The problem is that this “new location” has been extremely difficult to find!

I should state that I am NOT looking to rent another apartment or get involved in a long-term lease again. There are a bunch of places for rent in the Monmouth County area, especially where I’m looking, but many of these places have a history of crime that I’m just not interested in getting involved with. I mean who wants to take all of their worldly possessions and put them in an apartment complex where there is a good chance that some crack whore is going to steal all of it? Certainly not me…

Over the last few weeks I’ve been searching for a new home, but the problem with the Monmouth County real estate market is that while the rest of the real estate market has crashed, the home owners in this area just refuse to believe it. And it’s blatantly apparent from just taking a drive around the Long Branch/Ocean Township/West Long Branch area. Everywhere you go – on every single street – you see “for sale” signs posted on front lawns. Many of these signs have been there for months and a few have been there for at least a year. Now that I’m searching for a home, I know why they’ve been there for so long – the owners are insane!

Part of me feels bad for these investor-owners because they probably bought these home (as investment properties) during the hey day of the real estate boom a few years back and are now looking to sell for the return that they were promised. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen. You cannot sell a home that sold for $325 thousand in 2003 for $1.2 million in 2007 (yes, I did see such a ridiculous price on a house). The real estate market in Monmouth County does NOT support a 400% increase in value – even in the nicer areas of Long Branch and West Long Branch!

The saddest part of all of this is that there is a group of realtors in the Monmouth County area who all refuse to tell these owners the truth – their property is NOT worth what they thought it would be when they bought it. So what is the end result? You have a bunch of property owners living in Brooklyn, New York who think that they own a piece of heaven down in West Long Branch, New Jersey when in reality all they have are vacant properties with “for sale” signs in the front lawn.

And then you have people like me – who are content just to buy a condo or town house. What do I have to work with? A bunch of condos a few towns over from where I’d like to live that are moderately priced, but still out of my price range. Well, I shouldn’t say that…there are a few condos that I could afford where I’m looking. However, these are the condos that aren’t as lavishly appointed as the ones that you’d REALLY want to live in and these are the condos where you can hear your neighbor’s television as you’re watching your own.

Looks like for a short time I’ll be putting my stuff into storage and commuting to work from my parents’ house. That’s right – my 2 hour daily commute will now be a 3 hour daily commute and I’ll be a bundle of joy!

We Go After College Students…Until Real Life Hits!

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Any of you who have read me over at Joe’s Journal know that I have a nice, well-founded disgust of the way college kids are treated by local law enforcement. My personal experience (and the experience of most of my peers) is that of having our civil rights demolished by the Ocean Township Police Department as they walked into our house at all hours of the night “just to check.”

Imagine someone walking into your house at 2:00am when everyone was asleep…

Anyway, what gets me going is when the local papers crucify college students for all of the “bad” that they do to the communities. Focusing on Ocean Township for a moment, let me bring you three stories from a local paper in Northern Coastal Monmouth County from The Coaster.

First, we have the story of how a simple crash in a parking lot led to a major heroin arrest in Ocean Township. From the article:

After an investigation police learned that Jeffery J. Dale, 27, had thrown several bags of heroin and a hypodermic syringe into a nearby storm drain.

Police found Dale to be under the influence of drugs at the scene and he was taken into custody to the Ocean Township Police Station for processing.

Yeah…let’s make sure that our local police force is going up and down Roosevelt Avenue staring at a sorority house because there are Greek letters in their window and not keeping an eye on the creepy heroin guy over by Target. Ridiculous.

Now we go to one of the new economic development projects in Ocean Township – the Wegmans shopping complex! While the Ocean Township Police Department is directed to go and inspect those “unruly” college students miles away there’s a good old-fashioned bank robbery going on at the Bank of America in the new development!

Whew! Thank God there is extra surveillance over near the college houses and not by the bank! Those damn college students might have left their garbage out or parked too far from the curb!

And…right down the street from this place was yet another wonderful event in recent Ocean Township history: Ocean Man Charged in Robbery! How exciting?!?

But let me just say from the bottom of my heart, it’s great to know that the college student who is coming home from the bar on Saturday night has a huge calvary of police following him. Because seriously, what would happen if that bastard college student wasn’t be watched? He could be selling heroin, robbing a bank, or stealing from a gas station!

We Go After College Students…Until Real Life Hits!

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Any of you who have read me over at Joe’s Journal know that I have a nice, well-founded disgust of the way college kids are treated by local law enforcement. My personal experience (and the experience of most of my peers) is that of having our civil rights demolished by the Ocean Township Police Department as they walked into our house at all hours of the night “just to check.”

Imagine someone walking into your house at 2:00am when everyone was asleep…

Anyway, what gets me going is when the local papers crucify college students for all of the “bad” that they do to the communities. Focusing on Ocean Township for a moment, let me bring you three stories from a local paper in Northern Coastal Monmouth County from The Coaster.

First, we have the story of how a simple crash in a parking lot led to a major heroin arrest in Ocean Township. From the article:

After an investigation police learned that Jeffery J. Dale, 27, had thrown several bags of heroin and a hypodermic syringe into a nearby storm drain.

Police found Dale to be under the influence of drugs at the scene and he was taken into custody to the Ocean Township Police Station for processing.

Yeah…let’s make sure that our local police force is going up and down Roosevelt Avenue staring at a sorority house because there are Greek letters in their window and not keeping an eye on the creepy heroin guy over by Target. Ridiculous.

Now we go to one of the new economic development projects in Ocean Township – the Wegmans shopping complex! While the Ocean Township Police Department is directed to go and inspect those “unruly” college students miles away there’s a good old-fashioned bank robbery going on at the Bank of America in the new development!

Whew! Thank God there is extra surveillance over near the college houses and not by the bank! Those damn college students might have left their garbage out or parked too far from the curb!

And…right down the street from this place was yet another wonderful event in recent Ocean Township history: Ocean Man Charged in Robbery! How exciting?!?

But let me just say from the bottom of my heart, it’s great to know that the college student who is coming home from the bar on Saturday night has a huge calvary of police following him. Because seriously, what would happen if that bastard college student wasn’t be watched? He could be selling heroin, robbing a bank, or stealing from a gas station!

Those Rotten Kids Acting Up Again!

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You gotta love Ocean Township and the vigor with which they go after college students. You have to love it because, as the college community has been saying for years, they really need to look in their own backyard before they run after college kids.

Ocean Township police break up underage drinking party

Not that it’s great when locals get arrested for underage drinking, but at least the truth can be laid out that it’s NOT just college students that are doing what normal teenagers do!