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(AP) Obvious New Jersey communities begin charging drivers up to $2,500 for accident-related spill cleanup, and if you think that's a bit much you can take it up with Louie No-Nose from the state legislature's waste-haulage subcommittee   (lohud.com) divider line 38
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HappyLittleTree 2008-12-07 02:31:01 AM  
Because he has to clean up smelly crap, Louie has no nose? Is that the joke?


/I need sleep...and a brain

 
Snackly 2008-12-07 02:32:14 AM  
That must be some really nice dirt they sprinkle all over the road.

 
Claude Ballse 2008-12-07 02:32:39 AM  
Good. People don't realize the mess trans fluid alone can make.

 
jdamaral 2008-12-07 02:34:13 AM  
Should have gone with a Sopranos reference failmitter.

alt.coxnewsweb.com

/dekniltoh like meadow

 
Playinodds 2008-12-07 02:36:24 AM  
insurance covers this no?

 
Mr_Master2 2008-12-07 02:37:41 AM  
Does this moron realize the same tourists he is fining are the ones who greatly contribute to his tax base? Talk about getting the best of both worlds.

 
fanbladesaresharp 2008-12-07 02:37:45 AM  
FTFA: City officials say the fees mostly affect tourists rather than local residents who already pay property taxes.

Then I'll just drive around NJ. Maine and NC beaches are prettier anyway for my tourist dollars.

 
ThisIsntMe 2008-12-07 02:39:56 AM  
NASCAR tracks do it in twelve minutes or less and charge Bumpkus......'Cause nothing in your car will kill anything that matters(stray cats/dogs/deer are of course excluded if you use the green or red antifreeze).

 
hockey fool 2008-12-07 02:40:23 AM  
Better solution for crashy tourists...

z.about.com

/hot like the Gulf Stream..

 
carnifderome 2008-12-07 02:46:17 AM  
I had a broke-ass co-worker once have her crappy car start on fire. Somebody sent her a bill for a few grand for the spilled fluids.

 
ThisIsntMe 2008-12-07 02:48:18 AM  
Runaway property taxes prompted the move last year to fee-based services in Wildwood, home to the state's best beaches, according to a statewide poll earlier this year - and the highest tax rates in the county.

FTFA

Yeah they got crap for tourism because every third boardwalk sight is a tatoo parlour and every fifth is a paintball range. I moved to Jersey because I had to,...they don't have anybody smart enough in-state to do my spouses' job. If they fired half the darned state/county/township/town staff and actually used the number of folks most states do...well I guess unemployment would be about 39%. But those of us who actually work could pay taxes and inject money into the economy.

 
TheMega 2008-12-07 02:49:48 AM  
Quite simply if the insurance didn't cover it, the reply would be you should have used the paper this bill was written on to clean it up and the problem would have been solved... BYE.

 
starsrift 2008-12-07 02:56:00 AM  
FTFA: "We are a tourist town. Rightfully so, if a tourist has the accident, why should the local taxpayers foot the entire bill?" Wildwood Commissioner William Davenport told the newspaper.

Apparently, they don't understand how tourist towns work.

/ Lived in one tourist town or another all my life.
// Except when I lived in Halifax

 
MentalMoment 2008-12-07 03:04:18 AM  
FTA: Wildwood, home to the state's best beaches.

Just keep in mind that we're talking about New Jersey here...

 
monsieurstabby [TotalFark] 2008-12-07 03:08:52 AM  
$2,500 to be removed from my car after an accident I may not even have caused? That's the most assholish thing I've heard in a long time.

 
gnudutch 2008-12-07 03:17:25 AM  
I was hoping for no-nose pics

 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark] 2008-12-07 03:29:14 AM  
Playinodds: insurance covers this no?

That's I thought.
I would use government employees to sop this stuff up because they have a way of absorbing things well.

 
Its_A_Tarp 2008-12-07 04:36:06 AM  
First...I love people from around Jersey who mock the Jersey Shore and then *every year* come to our beaches and take shiats on them...

Secondly...someone asked for Sopranos?

Link (poppy)

 
CasperImproved [TotalFark] 2008-12-07 06:47:33 AM  
Anyone going to N.J. as a tourist, deserves what they get.

 
MadAzza [TotalFark] 2008-12-07 07:56:53 AM  
Mother of God. Subby understands when to use a hyphen with a compound modifier.

Well done, sir or madam.

 
mynameistim 2008-12-07 08:00:14 AM  
genocide nj.

 
Voldemort 2008-12-07 08:28:53 AM  
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I know somebody else who had no nose.

 
Treetop1000 2008-12-07 09:24:52 AM  
Hell is real, and it's in New Jersey.

 
A Day Older than Yesterday 2008-12-07 09:31:59 AM  
Playinodds: insurance covers this no?

That would mean everybody with auto coverages pays. Maybe you don't know how insurance works.

 
TheRockit 2008-12-07 10:18:28 AM  
DOUCHEBAGS

 
Radio Boy 2008-12-07 10:27:46 AM  
fanbladesaresharp: FTFA: City officials say the fees mostly affect tourists rather than local residents who already pay property taxes.

Then I'll just drive around NJ. Maine and NC beaches are prettier anyway for my tourist dollars.


Yeah, you know what? They said that about the toll hikes, too. Guess what assholes, people in NJ use the roads and pay the farking tolls as well. fark this state, seriously.

 
MadWilliamFlint [TotalFark] 2008-12-07 10:38:13 AM  
no nose?

How did he smell?

 
JesterGirl [TotalFark] 2008-12-07 11:05:12 AM  
jdamaral: Should have gone with a Sopranos reference failmitter.
/dekniltoh like meadow



Came in for the Sopranos, thank you ;-)

I'm in the waste management business. Everybody immediately assumes you're mobbed up. It's a stereotype. And it's offensive. And you're the last person I would want to perpetuate it... There is no Mafia.

 
TheWizard 2008-12-07 11:05:27 AM  
Non snarky question:

Is there anyone that has a desire to move TO New Jersey? If so, what are your reasons?

 
ThatGuyGreg [TotalFark] 2008-12-07 11:37:33 AM  
Radio Boy: fark this state, seriously.

So get out - who needs you?

 
Girion47 2008-12-07 12:20:13 PM  
Voldemort: I know somebody else who had no nose.

Salute your Shorts ftw!!!

/would have totally hit dina

 
Radio Boy 2008-12-07 12:29:19 PM  
ThatGuyGreg: Radio Boy: fark this state, seriously.

So get out - who needs you?


I'm workin on it! They put the tolls on the outbound bridges for a reason.

 
fien111 2008-12-07 12:30:05 PM  
www.yosemiteblog.com

Fell? Or was pushed?

 
Gothmolly 2008-12-07 12:35:05 PM  
Makes complete sense, provided your car insurance can be used to pay for it.

 
patent holder 2008-12-07 01:25:09 PM  
True fairness would be for the insurance industry to add a surcharge to anyone garaging a vehicle in that/those zip code(s), after all that's where the claims are occurring.

 
pvera 2008-12-07 01:47:05 PM  
kreations.kaptainmyke.com

/hotlinked, got a problem with that?

 
BunkyBrewman [TotalFark] 2008-12-07 01:53:38 PM  
fark New Jersey, and fark those greedy shore towns. I will never spend another dime in any of those places (except AC on occasion) that actually have the balls to charge people to use the beaches.

The Outer Banks is so far superior it's ridiculous. Cripes, even Ocean City, MD is better. (vacation now on the OBX, 4x4 areas... which don't charge you to use the beach, OR require a permit for "over the sand" vehicles)

/born and raised in NJ, quite aware of the money traps from every podunk municipality that can't balance their budgets

 
simpsonfan 2008-12-07 05:14:25 PM  
As soon as word gets out, tourists will go elsewhere.

 
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