r/newjersey

It is immoral for Tom Kean to disappear from work for 88 days, while collecting a taxpayer salary and receiving taxpayer healthcare, and give the residents of his district absolutely no explanation or information.

Tom Kean is arrogant and entitled while our families are struggling with unafforable healthcare, gas, groceries, and childcare. Our children and grandchildren have bleak job and housing prospects. All due to the policies of his Republican party.

Situation: Pulled over by NJ State Police on NJ Turnpike and served three offenses:

(1) NJSA violation 39:4-88A: Failure to observe traffic lanes (Fine + 2 points)

(2) Municipal violation: Careless driving with no accident or personal injury (Fine)

(3) Warning: Following too closely

Background: Clean driving record (no points). Was trying to get around a slow driver in the left lane (outer roadway). I probably should have been more patient, but was also being tailgated by another vehicle and had trucks to the right of me for a few miles.

Question: (A) Do I appear before the court to fight violation #1 to keep my record clean and minimize an increase in my insurance premium or (B) please guilty and pay the fine + add 2 points to my license?

Follow-up question: (C) If I appear before the court, do I represent myself or hire an attorney?

Any and all feedback welcome. Thanks!

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1. The shitter situation is fucked

Building has 4 toilets for 1,500 detainees + 1,000 staff.

Town says they’d need 15x the sewage capacity or Lake Musconetcong gets raw sewage.

2. They’re fuckin’ with our drinking water

Warehouse sits near Lake Hopatcong + Lake Musconetcong.

Sewage overflows = contaminated water. That system supplies 70% of NJ’s drinking water.

Feds skipped the environmental review.

3. The whole process was fucked from the start

ICE/DHS bought it from Goldman Sachs for $130M in February.

Didn’t tell the town. Didn’t tell the state.

Roxbury found out from a Washington Post article.

4. It fucks the town’s budget

If feds own it, Roxbury loses $85M in tax revenue over 30 years.

That’s money for schools, cops, firefighters — gone.

All to warehouse humans in a building made for Amazon packages.

There was nonstop lightning before it hit and so much wind going in every direction. I saw the clouds swirling and heard a transformer blowing up. Currently writing this post in my basement (hunterdon) and just lost power. Awesome

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The dark translucent ones are bad enough, but if you get up real close you can at least read the plate number on those d-bag filters, technically. This one!? Absolutely insane. It's straight up opaque and reflective. And nah, this isn't just a bad angle. I was following this person for miles and never once made out a single letter or number of their plate. So am I allowed to just take off my plates at this point? And who remembers when there used to be cops who gave a crap about anything?