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1. POSTED BY jerseygurl  |  September 24, 2009 @ 8:14 am

   At least they use cheery smiley faces.
2. POSTED BY herbeverschmel  |  September 24, 2009 @ 8:26 am

   Vandalizing private and public property is one of the lowest forms of crime. NY in the 70′s was a disgrace with all that graffitti. It took a long time for them to turn it around but unfortunately it’s starting to rear its ugly head again this time in the ‘burbs. I can’t figure out what makes a person think they can whip out a can of paint and ‘tag’ someone elses property. These designers after a cheap buck are making it main stream and these suburban dopey teens are buying into it.
   I’m not in the business of telling someone what is and isn’t art [portion of comment deleted] It’s just another example of the dumbing down of our society to where destruction of property is now accepted as among art galleries, fashion designers and museums. I guess it makes some these art snobs feel connected to ‘the street’. Great until it ends up on your car or sidewalk.
3. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  September 24, 2009 @ 8:39 am

   Better go to Watchung Hardware and get your bottles of super ‘Crud Cutter’.
   I’m about as white as you can get (Norewgian, Irish, Scottish) and I still feel pretty safe.
   I’m surrounded by 4 large, potentially aggressive male cats who adore me. My wife can scream very loudly and my 200 pound nephew who can bench press 350 pounds and has about 10% body fat, studies martial arts and is incredibly funny is about to come live with us.
   I feel very safe indeed.
4. POSTED BY Conan  |  September 24, 2009 @ 8:43 am

   The “x” is the dead giveaway. In some parts of the world the letter “x” is considered a signature, or a mark. All the authorities have to do is line up all of the teenagers in town named Mark and ask them to write down their names (preferably with a can of spray paint on the hood of a ’58 Oldsmobile). The perpetrator will thus be revealed. QED.
5. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  September 24, 2009 @ 9:07 am

   The U2 show at Giants stadium was incredible. Once they het the stage everybody was up and dancing/swaying/jumping up and down. Whoa.
   The Stage must have cost millions to create and the lighting was amazing along with the multi-purpose circular display screen that hovered above the stage. Bono was in fine form along with the rest of the lads. Larry Mullen is a human metronome. Man that guy can sustain a groove! The Edge and Adam were both phenomenal.
   I didn’t rain!
   They opened with ‘Breathe’, a perfect choice with the insistant drum beat and incipient guitar noise launching into the main groove of the song.
   They played for about 2 hours and 20 minutes.
   The ride home was nightmarish, but who cares, I’m so glad I went and have a wonderful concert memory to enjoy long after the last notes of the show drifted up into the clouds.
6. POSTED BY walleroo  |  September 24, 2009 @ 9:14 am

   My dearest Liz, In the headline, I think you need a colon after “cars,” instead of a comma. With love and affection, W.
7. POSTED BY Mrs. Martta123  |  September 24, 2009 @ 9:17 am

   Also, I know most of the streets in Montclair but I never heard of one called “Parkway.” Perhaps you mean Glenridge Parkway?
8. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  September 24, 2009 @ 9:20 am

   MB2,
   They stopped ending with “40″ years ago.
   Did they play it?
   I remember the good old 80′s where we’d be leaving singing, “how long to sing this song…”
   What song did they end with? Were folks singing as they left?
   Love U2 (and if you look closely, at the end of the “Where the Street Have No Name” video, you’ll see a 16-year-old prof pointing up at the camera).
   Sadly though, I haven’t loved a U2 album/CD/download since “All that you Can’t…”
   But I love some of the new jams, so perhaps I’ll download/buy/get/itunes– whatever– the new one.
9. POSTED BY Kay  |  September 24, 2009 @ 9:38 am

   ohhhh….. so….. jealous….
   >>>
   40 is one of my all-time favorites by any artist.
10. POSTED BY PAZ  |  September 24, 2009 @ 9:50 am

    They tagged the wall along side my house in GR. “The Frito crew”. It will be gone this weekend with my grafitti remover solvent.
11. POSTED BY Blu  |  September 24, 2009 @ 9:53 am

    Curfew
12. POSTED BY Carl Bergmanson  |  September 24, 2009 @ 10:26 am

    Mrs. M.,
    I believe the little street that is the northern boundary of Edgemont Park is called “Parkway”.
13. POSTED BY Frank M  |  September 24, 2009 @ 10:33 am

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14. POSTED BY PAZ  |  September 24, 2009 @ 10:45 am

    What’s the typeface that taggers using on the cross walk? Looks unusual.
15. POSTED BY kyle41181  |  September 24, 2009 @ 10:54 am

    These acts of hate and destruction of property are definitely from individuals who are in constant need of attention. Hopefully they get their wish and the MPD and local citizens put these thugs in there rightful place; JAIL or JU-V which will be the case because the perps are most likely teenage boys.
    Herb, easy with the Louisville Slugger comments, there is no need to incite more violence than there already is.
    Dont worry we just gave the Police Chief a raise, maybe the new money in his pocket will help him fight crime better!
16. POSTED BY King_Harvest  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:08 am

    Not sure why U2 gets so much play. They have some catchy songs, but to me they remain extremely overated, not much musicianship…If it weren’t for Bono’s humanitarian exploits I think the fervor surrounding them would have died down a lot earlier.
17. POSTED BY cathar  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:09 am

    There is no “race war” and these events signify no crime wave. There are, however, obviously a few idiots out and about with spray paint (the selling of which I thought used to be informally regulated with regard to minors).
    Perhaps increased used of police cruisers? Especially since the frequency of these incidents indicates rather cavalier disregard of the current active police presence on local streets. Whatever, the Baristas do so love keeping the paranoia pot stirred, don’t they?
    For all you U2 fans out there, however, may I politely suggest you all get hold of Scott Walker’s last few CD’s and see for yourself what genuine rock/electronic adventurism is really like?
18. POSTED BY Generically named Mike  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:09 am

    Can’t say as I’m surprised by the increase in this type of crime.
    With the reports of increased gang presence in town, it makes sense that there would be more “tagging”. I wonder if the white “X” has any sort of gang symbolism.
    The inside of the men’s room at the Quick Check on Valley is covered in Crips & Bloods tags (which, of course, could have been made by bored teens with no connection to either. But, still, scary if true).
19. POSTED BY mrx5000  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:21 am

    Is it legal to shoot trespassers on your property? There have been lots of theft and break-ins in my neighborhood, [portion of comment deleted].
20. POSTED BY Right of Center™  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:27 am

    Is it legal to shoot trespassers on your property?
    no.
21. POSTED BY Mrs. Martta123  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:29 am

    How about pelting them with little blue bags of dog poop? They make marevlous projectiles.
22. POSTED BY Right of Center™  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:29 am

    Generic are you really scared because of graffiti on the stalls at Quick Check?
    Man-up, dude.
23. POSTED BY walleroo  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:32 am

    Man-up, dude.
    LOL! He’s also scared of vaccines.
24. POSTED BY Aflarfin  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:37 am

    You need to move to TX to shoot on site.
    Here in NJ there is an equal force law.
    You can’t even put a knife in somebodys hand after you shoot them anymore.
25. POSTED BY Kay  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:44 am

    How about pelting them with little blue bags of dog poop?
    Or frozen sandwich bags of pudding! More hit points!
    Is it legal to shoot trespassers on your property?
    I think only in Texas. There, you are allowed to shoot them even as they are running away, and also if they are wearing halloween costumes.
26. POSTED BY kyle41181  |  September 24, 2009 @ 11:47 am

    GNM,
    I agree with you that the Quick Check on Valley Rd is full of possible gang members. I go to that store once a day M-F at or around 11pm. I see more hoodlums and thugs walking into the store purchasing cheap cigars(blunts)for smoking weed!
    Cathar,
    You seriously underestimate the crime in Montclair. I have spoken to many MPD officers and the ones who have been around since the 1980′s and saw the little downturn in the early 2000′s say the same thing about a slight uptick in violent crimes. When times get tough, some choose the easy way out. Crime, instead of hard work!
27. POSTED BY avmech  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:03 pm

    Some of the letters used indicate they may be russian speakers…or they just might be juvenile deliquent retards.
28. POSTED BY Right of Center™  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:08 pm

    The Russian Mob! Sharp eye avmech!
    really, the problem is these kids didn’t do enough singing when they were in elementary school.
29. POSTED BY LiFer  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:24 pm

    My dearest Liz, In the headline, I think you need a colon after “cars,” instead of a comma. With love and affection, W.
    Way to go, Professor Walleroo! (Though I see Liz opted to follow your suggestion only halfway, so to speak.) Next up, may I suggest pointing out that “graffiti” is not, in the strictest sense, a verb?
30. POSTED BY walleroo  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:25 pm

    Relax, ROC. The kids did the same for thing for Bush and Cheney when they were in office.
31. POSTED BY walleroo  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:29 pm

    That’s just Liz’s way of giving me a wink ; )
    Oh, and if you’re getting all formal, LiFer, I prefer Herr Doktor Professor Metternicht von Klink-Walleroo.
32. POSTED BY walleroo  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:30 pm

    Sorry, I meant Herr Doktor Professor Metternicht von Klink-Walleroo IV.
33. POSTED BY walleroo  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:31 pm

    You might also add, “inventor of the leading technique for removing brain tumors without damaging the surrounding tissue.”
34. POSTED BY walleroo  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

    But that’s optional.
35. POSTED BY Debbie Galant  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:34 pm

    I like the semi-colon, wink or not.
36. POSTED BY croiagusanam  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:35 pm

    That’s anice tune, ROC.
    But I prefer the “Katrina Kids” hymn of praise to “Congress, Bush, and FEMA, and people across the land, they’ve come to rebuild us and lend a helping hand”.
    You know, the tune they sang for Laura Bush.
    Don’t know it? You can get a CD at
    http://www.rocisapartisanhack.com
37. POSTED BY Right of Center™  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:47 pm

    They’re teaching kids in a public school in our very own state to sings songs in praise of Obama, even borrowing a lyric from “Jesus loves the little children” (replacing, of course Jesus with Obama) and *I* am the party hack?
    Barack Hussein Obama
    He said that all must lend a hand [?]
    To make this country strong again
    Mmm, mmm, mm!
    Barack Hussein Obama
    He said we must be clear today
    Equal work means equal pay
    Mmm, mmm, mm!
    Barack Hussein Obama
    He said that we must take a stand
    To make sure everyone gets a chance
    Mmm, mmm, mm!
    Barack Hussein Obama
    He said Red, Yellow, Black or White
    All are equal in his sight
    Mmm, mmm, mm!
    Barack Hussein Obama
    Yes
    Mmm, mmm, mm!
    Barack Hussein Obama
38. POSTED BY croiagusanam  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:51 pm

    “They’re” teaching kids in our public schools!
    Do they squeeze this music instruction in between the socialist indoctrination and Marxist economic theory?
    To answer your question yes, you are a partisan (not party) hack.
    And your manure-loaded alarums have, like Chicken Little, discredited any legitimate point you might struggle manfully to make.
39. POSTED BY Liz George  |  September 24, 2009 @ 12:54 pm

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graffiti
    I think it flies
40. POSTED BY Mrs. Martta123  |  September 24, 2009 @ 1:06 pm

    Kids singing a song about “mmmmm Mmmmm Barack Obama?” And we have three more years of this? Lord help us.
41. POSTED BY jerseygurl  |  September 24, 2009 @ 1:11 pm

    Poor ROC. Must have damaged his brain looking under all those rocks.
42. POSTED BY croiagusanam  |  September 24, 2009 @ 1:18 pm

    These Obama kids are cute, but they have a long way to go to get to the talent level exhibited here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdt_f0hwUg
    And, may I add, this clip features one of the best addresses ever given by the former president.
43. POSTED BY Right of Center™  |  September 24, 2009 @ 1:18 pm

    “Do they squeeze this music instruction in between the socialist indoctrination and Marxist economic theory?”
    Apparently so.
44. POSTED BY mrx5000  |  September 24, 2009 @ 1:20 pm

    lol they censored my comment.
    stupid micromanaged website.
45. POSTED BY Right of Center™  |  September 24, 2009 @ 1:20 pm

    That’s pretty creepy cro, I agree. At least it’s not being paid for a public expense.
46. POSTED BY Mrs. Martta123  |  September 24, 2009 @ 1:32 pm

    Agreed, both are creepy in their own way.
47. POSTED BY walleroo  |  September 24, 2009 @ 1:52 pm

    Ironically, the teachers teaching the evils of ownership worked at a private school! I suppose they were trying to undermine the system from within.
48. POSTED BY croiagusanam  |  September 24, 2009 @ 2:04 pm

    I’m guessing that these teachers were in fact planted in the school by a shadowy organization funded by Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck in an effort to discredit the Lego Corp., crown-jewel of socialist Denmark’s economy.
    I have a copy of a seldom-seen YouTube video featuring the Hans Christain Andersen Freedom brigade preparing to infiltrate American schools and disrupt the status quo through just such “false flag” operations.
    Be on guard!
49. POSTED BY cathar  |  September 24, 2009 @ 2:09 pm

    I find these “Obama songs” creepy. Evidence of a developing personality cult within the Democratic party (and thus of the intellectual desert that constitutes the minds of Pelosi, Reid, Frank, et al, let alone the sulphuric wasteland that is the brain of Pascrell.) No, it’s not the modern equivalent to either the “Horst Wessel Song” or that “Vietnamese patriotic ballad” (her words) that Holly Near used to sing and claimed was trilled by peasants harvesting rice as B-52′s roared overhead. But it’s still unnverving.
    Especially for someone who bids fair to be a one-term President.
    Walleroo is especially active post-wise today. (But no more necessary reading than usual.) Do I sense a spate of, uh, company-enforced “down time?”
50. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  September 24, 2009 @ 2:15 pm

    “Not sure why U2 gets so much play. They have some catchy songs, but to me they remain extremely overated, not much musicianship”
    Ok, my mind is officially blown.. whoa. amazing.
51. POSTED BY King_Harvest  |  September 24, 2009 @ 2:49 pm

    Haha I know I may be in the minority here, but I find their stuff boring and bland, everything sounds the same.
    If you want true musicianship, with multiple vocals check out anything and everything by “The Band”. The greatest musical group ever (yea I know, easy on the superlatives).
52. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  September 24, 2009 @ 3:16 pm

    King,
    Whew, for a minute there you had me worried.
    I think in the pantheon of rock holiness, ‘The Band’ is in the top 5 of all time and U2 would be in the top 20.
    Robbie Robertson was as good or better on the guitar as The Edge is on his. Nobody can top Levon’s singing.
    For drop dead musicianship, I guess Steely Dan has to be near the top, but they kind of cheated by using all those jazzy studio cats.
    My favorite of all time for top musicianship is ‘Yes’.
53. POSTED BY spork  |  September 24, 2009 @ 4:41 pm

    why do they automatically assume that graffiti is made my people under the arbitrary age of 18? its probably some stupid republican “tough on crime” type thing. this prejudice is why in many places minors arent allowed to have markers, paint of any kind, or matches
54. POSTED BY Generically named Mike  |  September 24, 2009 @ 4:49 pm

    Spork,
    Why would you have matches unless you were a smoker or camping?
    If you’re under 19, then you shouldn’t be able to buy cigarettes and therefore don’t need matches for any reason when roaming the wilds of civilization.
55. POSTED BY LiFer  |  September 24, 2009 @ 4:52 pm

    Hmmm… dictionary.com (which pulls from several sources) says no, but the compact OED says yes, so I guess majority rules? (Though personally I would gone with “tag”.) You win this round, Barista! *shakes fist*
56. POSTED BY jerseygurl  |  September 24, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

    Ah, The Band. Amazing. I can watch “The Last Waltz” over and over again. Much better than all those dueling clips of school children.
57. POSTED BY cathar  |  September 24, 2009 @ 6:09 pm

    The Band? In the rock pantheon? Nah. Rather, they are an example of the adage that it’s not necessarily how well you play as it is who you “know.” Twangy but often off key songs, with opaque lyrics. Points off, too, for not one but two! very embarassing attempts at reunions. Further points off for debilitating drug overdoses and suicide. I shall never understand the reverence accorded these wimps.
    Now, back to listening to my Yardbirds CD’s. Jeff Beck rules! (Right alongside, from out of left field in a sense, Peter Green now that he’s out of those mental institutions apparently for good.)
58. POSTED BY Sandy  |  September 24, 2009 @ 7:27 pm

    This stupid destruction and damaging of property will stop only when one person catches the useless P.O.S. and beats the crap outta him, to a thin line of death, and then the word will be out that we ain’t gonna take this no more.
    Take yo “X” and brand yo rectum with it.
59. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  September 24, 2009 @ 9:59 pm

    Back in Brooklyn, Sandy, they fit people with concrete shoes and offer them a refreshing swim in the Gowanus Canal.
60. POSTED BY Sandy  |  September 24, 2009 @ 10:13 pm

    Funny “A refreshing swim” had a good laugh on that one.
    Perhaps I over-react – but I have & maintain to utter perfection 4 Show-cars, (some may have seen a few of them at the Bloomfield Cruise Nights) and I’d go ape-shit if that happened to one of them. Years & years of deligent care and costs, only to have some worthless POS spray a X on them? 2 of them have been in nationwide magazines, and I have several trophies. Destruction for the sake of ?? People (kids) who cannot enjoy something unless they can ruin it.
    Speaks volumes.
61. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  September 24, 2009 @ 10:28 pm

    Thanks, Sandy, it seems some people believe they have the right to damage or destroy property they do not own. It’s a form of stealing, really.
62. POSTED BY appletony  |  September 25, 2009 @ 12:03 am

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63. POSTED BY Sandy  |  September 25, 2009 @ 9:39 am

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64. POSTED BY Right of Center™  |  September 25, 2009 @ 10:02 am

    would the Benevolent Despots, uh, I mean the Barista’s like to explain the deleted comments. I realize the latest ones were a joke, but the ones actually deleted.

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