The Swamp

rass wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2018 1:14 pm Be forewarned it's tiny. If you look at it on Google maps, it's in a old trailer-style luncheonette building. So seating for maybe 15-20 people?

rass wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 2:10 pm The district where he works is a town that borders mine, and it's a pretty well regarded school system, but I don't know anything about him.

I did read some of the comments on the initial article I saw this morning, before the serial nature of his crime was revealed, and I was a little concerned at how many people defended heeding the call of nature while running and just dropping a deuce wherever necessary.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 10:56 am A school bus from Paramus and a dump truck collided on 80 about an hour ago and this one feels like its going to be bad.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 10:56 am A school bus from Paramus and a dump truck collided on 80 about an hour ago and this one feels like its going to be bad.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 10:56 am A school bus from Paramus and a dump truck collided on 80 about an hour ago and this one feels like its going to be bad.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 6:01 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 10:56 am A school bus from Paramus and a dump truck collided on 80 about an hour ago and this one feels like its going to be bad.

This ended up being horrendous. At least some of the kids were special needs, and not able to communicate with police or medical staff. The teacher wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and was thrown out of the bus and died at the scene. They found a list of students, but couldn't identify a lot of them for hours. In addition to special needs kids, a number of them were unconscious, or had head injuries, and weren't able to communicate. They were panicking, because they couldn't find one kid for over 5 hours. They had police dogs searching the area, but eventually the school realized he didn't go to school, but his name was on the class list.

I never gave any thought to this when my kids go on field trips, but they obviously don't have ID, and if they were hurt and their teacher died, how would they ID the kids? And you can't have a kid identify the dead students. There was a State Trooper who had a kid in that school who went around identifying kids he knew. My wife spent the entire day at one of the hospitals, and I've never seen her that devastated.

A_B wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 7:08 pm Do your school buses have seatbelts? I’ve never seen one that does.

A_B wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 7:08 pm Do your school buses have seatbelts? I’ve never seen one that does.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:59 pm Been on vacation this week, in and around Jim Thorpe, PA. Lots of history around here and it’s a pretty place. We flew into Newark last weekend and joined up with our Maplewood friend to drive to PA. Going back to Maplewood Friday. If I can make my way to A pub in Maplewood for a pint Friday night, might any of you locals be available and up to join me?

rass wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 6:34 pm I go away for one week and AB shows up in the town next to where I work and SC shows up in the town next to where I live. Damn.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:07 am

rass wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 6:34 pm I go away for one week and AB shows up in the town next to where I work and SC shows up in the town next to where I live. Damn.

Just go to SC's house and meet his daughter's boyfriend, like any real Swamper would.

A_B wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 5:46 pm Morristown fucking blows, btw.