Crunch, smash, scrape!
02
August
If parking isn’t the number one problem in Hoboken, I don’t know what is. Are you paying attention Hoboken City Government?
Build some more garages already! What are we going to do when the population reaches 100,000? Sink? I may move into a boat and live at the Shipyard Marina.
Anyway, a reader sent these photos in of a V-dub Jetta getting it’s front left side smashed by what is thought to have been a ShopRite tractor.
“411,
Here are some pics of a Jetta that got sideswiped at 9th and Madison on the southeast corner of Shop Rite. Happened today between 2:30 and 3:00 pm. Must have gotten whacked by one of the large trucks that are often in the area. Not even a note left by whoever did it. People should really avoid parking along 9th on this block, those semi-trucks are always having trouble making it around that turn. Keep up the good work.”
1. Katie_Scarlett | August 2nd, 2007 at 4:19 pm
If you care about your car, or if you car is worth more than $10K, I would put it in a lot.
Between crappy drivers and menacing kids, nice cars get really really messed up.
Old cars you needn’t worry, kids don’t screw with them. My 10 year old Eclipse was on the street for 3 years without incident. My new car is in a garage.
2. duffysneighbor | August 2nd, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Looks an awful lot like someone else’s passenger side mirror on the ground, no?
3. monk | August 2nd, 2007 at 4:36 pm
duffysneighbor wrote:
You might be right about that one. I would have def thought it was a Shoprite truck since I always see them take that left onto ninth nearly taking cars out.
That area is one of the worst to park in, between the flooding and the tractor trailers you are asking for your car to be demolished.
4. mash | August 2nd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
it looks like a driver side mirror underneath the VW from possibly another victim- not the culprit
5. washingtonstreet | August 2nd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
this is ridiculous, i seriously don’t want to park on the street anymore. my mirror was pulled off about a year ago - along with 5 others parked in front and behind me on frank sinatra drive - it was on the curb side so it wasn’t a truck swiping them - probably some stupid kids. my friend saw kids throwing rocks at car windows and smashing them the other night - he called hoboken police who seemed to care less. when he offered a description HPD said, “what part of we’ll take care of it don’t you understand.” he continued to give the description and location, but HPD just got mad - apparantely they don’t care about this stuff.
6. slowboken07 | August 2nd, 2007 at 5:18 pm
I saw a car last night parked on Hudson across from the Police Station that had its front passenger side all smashed in.
7. eam144 | August 2nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
let a few cops get their cars messed with and then see what happens.
8. YipYap | August 2nd, 2007 at 5:37 pm
I am an expert on VW mirrors, having owned a Jetta for many years and having my car was subject to the whims of the mirror snapping hoodlums in town. What you see on the ground is the outside shell (you can see through it to the ground) of the VW mirror, while the guts and the glass stayed attached to the car by the wires. This has all the makings of a low speed impact perhaps a large truck or tractor trailer hitting the door then ripping off the mirror then crunching the fender. With all of the accidents over the last few yearson that block you would think by now there would be cones or no parking signs by now.
9. Easy-E | August 2nd, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I reported an incident at the Jefferson Trust Bank. I noticed someone smashed a window large enough for someone to get in.
When the patrolman finally did show up he seemed annoyed that I bothered him, because he was pretty hostile to me right off the bat. I am always very considerate to police, I don’t mess with them and give them a hassle. I couldn’t figure out WTF this guy’s problem was.
10. Friedupright | August 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
What’s the deal with the building being built directly across from the Shoprite parking lot? There is no protective fencing around the building. You can walk right onto the construction site, or into the building at night if you want to. Seems to me that that must be some kind of building permit violation. I only thought of it because I park down that way sometimes.
11. monk | August 2nd, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Friedupright wrote:
Terragon Ursa concoction I believe, you should reach out to them and inquire. Overall, they have done a poor job around that site particularly on the Southern perimeter bordering 8th. There is no sidewalk and you have to walk in the street to get to the light rail. Oh well.
12. willow | August 2nd, 2007 at 10:15 pm
that sucks
13. fawnliebowitz | August 3rd, 2007 at 8:24 am
By the way, there is no lighting around the perimeter at night. I reached out to the former councilman there a few months ago, via a link on this site(not sure, was it Cricco?)telling him the mess that these three blocks are. Of course, nothing got done. Shocker.
14. strand tramp | August 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
i have consistantly heard negative comments from policemen regarding the residents of hoboken for +10yrs. i don’t think the majority of the officers differentiate between the man on the street and city hall. they have plenty of complaints about city hall, as do most of the community, but seems their moral is low and it reflects on their opinion of the community they service. perhaps a DUI conviction of Campos will help? the problem may be that the favoritism that has been charged by a number of officers in lawsuits is true, and that the leadership has been there way too long? bad moral = bad relations with the community. i blame the mayor.
15. krewedetat | August 4th, 2007 at 12:25 am
I am sure glad that is not my car. I feel bad for the owner that has to deal with it. I wish the Hoboken cops like the ones described above would feel that way.
16. Jess525 | August 6th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Hi all, this is my car above!!! I have a question how someone knows this happened betweem 2:30-3 p.m. on Thursday? Did someone see something? Any information is appreciated. I thought it happened later at like 11 p.m. but maybe I didn’t notice my care when I got home that evening. I was also shocked at how much the HPD could have cared less - they didn’t even come to the car and gave me my own accident report to fill out! WHAT?!?!? We all pay a lot of money to live in this town and that’s bullshit.
17. personalt | August 6th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Jess - email the site owner at hoboken411@gmail.com
He may be able to provide more information from the person who sent in the snapshots.
I can tell since that shopright has been there they have had a few smashed cars like this on that street.. the pull out of the loading dock and make the left on to first to get back on Madison(I guess) to head north and out of town.