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Going to the Jersey shore this summer? Be careful!

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by larkinmj, May 15, 2007.

  1. larkinmj

    larkinmj New Member

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    If you go to the beach at Surf City, NJ, this summer, you won't be allowed to use a metal detector, stick an umbrella in the sand, or dig holes deeper than one foot. After a beachcomber with a metal detector found a rusted old fuze, the Army Corps of Engineers excavated the beach and dug up 1,111 pieces of WWI ordnance. Apparently, it was dumped overboard during the war. When the Army Corp recently dredged the sea floor to put more sand on the beach, they also mined it with old explosives.
    T-shirt in a souvenir shop- "Surf City’s Da Bombâ€

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/nyregion...xprod=permalink
     
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    Just another example of how tough New Jerseyans are; we're willing to get our skin cancer while lying on explosives! B)
     
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    F8L Protecting Habitat & AG Lands

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ZenCruiser @ May 15 2007, 07:26 PM) [snapback]442955[/snapback]</div>
    LOL!
     
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    hahahaha
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ZenCruiser @ May 15 2007, 06:26 PM) [snapback]442955[/snapback]</div>
    Think you're tough? Today I had to go without my double latte!
     
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    Almost the same thing is happening down in Delaware. Home owners order clam shells for their driveways and with the clam shells they are getting live ordnance dredged up from off shore.
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Boy, and I thought we had it bad when I lived on Lake Erie and medical waste floated in onto the beaches.

    Tom
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(qbee42 @ May 16 2007, 12:39 PM) [snapback]443443[/snapback]</div>
    Medical waste has been a chronic problem on Jersey beaches for years. A lot of stuff has been dumped at sea, and the frequent upwelling along the Jersey coasts brings it up.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(qbee42 @ May 16 2007, 12:39 PM) [snapback]443443[/snapback]</div>
    Not only that but New Jersey also has to put up with New York City's raw sewage at times.
     
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    I used to live in Marina del Rey, in Los Angels; it was beautiful sometimes but in the winter, I couldn't believe how much trash washed up after a storm came through.

    It made me really sad to think that the ocean was kind of puking this stuff back up at us!

    Sewage, too, actually. One of the lifeguards told me that there were three sewage outflow pipes which dumped into the ocean in the area. I thought it was actually kind of incredible, he said that one went six miles offshore, one nine, and one fifteen. I can only imagine what it might look like at the other end of those pipes.

    Sometimes, though, I didn't have to imagine, just take a walk on the beach.
     
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    War once again shows itself to be the solution to
    all of man's problems.

    Here it is trying to keep you off the beach and
    safe from skin cancer.
     
    #11 patrickindallas, May 16, 2007
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ May 15 2007, 06:06 PM) [snapback]442850[/snapback]</div>
    Oh those old relics (bombs) (grenades) those were placed there by homeland security to help fight off the Dubai port take overs LOL or terrorist who sunbathe :)
     
    #12 priussoris, May 16, 2007
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