Sipsey Street Irregulars: Well, that didn't take long.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Well, that didn't take long.

SMASH AND GRAB: A woman appears to be making off with "kicks" at Mello Magic Sneakers on Rockaway Beach Boulevard yesterday.

Jersey City on total lockdown from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. after rash of store break-ins, officials say

After 24 people were arrested last night on charges of breaking into stores, Jersey City has imposed a city-wide curfew on pedestrians and all businesses overnight, officials said today.

"We have to provide for the welfare and safety of all our residents" during the recovery from Hurricane Sandy, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said. "This limitation will assist us in achieving this goal."

Pedestrians must be off the streets in all areas of the city from 7 p.m. tonight until 7 a.m. tomorrow, Jersey City spokesman Stan Eason said. All businesses in the city must be closed during that period, Eason said.

Originally, businesses with power were allowed to operate during their normal hours. Under the new curfew policy being implemented tonight, "all" businesses must be closed without exception, Eason said.

As much as 75 percent of the city has been without power since Monday. PSE&G officials said that power is expected to be fully restored by Monday, Nov. 5. The city has also alerted residents not to drive on city street in order to allow emergency and road crews to make repairs.

And, in New York . . .

Hurricane Sandy brought out the worst yesterday in some sleazy New Yorkers, who looted stores and homes across the city.

Some posed as Con Ed workers to dupe their victims.

Police arrested more than a dozen looters in the Rockaways and Coney Island, which had been evacuated, and stood guard outside ravaged stores at the South Street Seaport.

“This morning when they told us the water receded, I walked back to the house to feed [my pets],” said Eric Martine, 33, a cabby who lives in Brooklyn’s Gerritsen Beach. “Guys were looting, pretending they were Con Ed and holding people up. It was sick.”

Residents said police warned them to beware of crooks pretending to be utility workers.

Cops fanned out yesterday to deal with looters around the city.

“We will not tolerate these scumbags looting. We will arrest them on sight,” said a police source.

Why don't these homeowners try shooting some of the SOBS?

9 comments:

Roger J said...: They can't shoot the SOBs. "Liberal" gun laws have disarmed them. The Tristate area has a very low rate of LEGAL gun ownership. Now of those SOBs come around my place...; October 31, 2012 at 4:39 PM
David Forward said...: Hell, I'm surprised the New York merchants didn't just have a pre-storm looter's sale -- everything 100% off. They had to know the animals would crawl out from under the rocks before the wind (Sandy's wind, not Obama or Bloomberg's wind) abated.
dol/lal; October 31, 2012 at 5:00 PM
thedweeze said...: "Why don't these homeowners try shooting some of the SOBS?"

Have you forgotten the guy who saved a cop by grabbing his sidearm to drive off the thugs who shot him? He was prosecuted for possession without a permit. Most folks in NYC don't have guns, nor would they know how to operate one if they found one on the ground. And the areas where there's a fair amount of underground gun ownership aren't the places that have to worry about looters. I know, I used to live in one of those areas. Don't Ask, Don't Tell, doncha know.; October 31, 2012 at 5:14 PM
Anonymous said...: What? People take charge of their own defense in the People's Unarmed Paradise of New Jersey and New York??!!
Why, that's the most unheard of thing I ever heard of!!
Next thing you know, you'll accuse the serfs of wanting smaller Gubbment!!
(Note: This is a perfect illustration of The Immutable Law of Unintended Consequences)

B Woodman
III-per; October 31, 2012 at 5:19 PM
rexxhead said...: "Why don't these homeowners try shooting some of the SOBS?"

Because in a city of 7+ million, there are only 2,291 carry permits.; October 31, 2012 at 7:07 PM
W W Woodward said...: And, the arsehats aren't ever hungry yet. Wait a few days and see how things go.
[W3]; November 1, 2012 at 1:49 AM
SWIFT said...: The looters are probably Obama supporters and Holder would prosecute you to the max if you shoot them. There seems to be a brotherhood among cockroaches.; November 1, 2012 at 4:43 AM
Anonymous said...: Looks like a small taste of what could happen with a major disaster nationwide.
They were all upset about katrina.
Looks like their model citizens reverted to katrinalike animals too.

Guess it's time to head to the range today....just sayin'; November 1, 2012 at 7:27 AM
Anonymous said...: ARREST ON SIGHT?!

Without a graduated series of stern looks and warnings?

What an extremist attitude!

The society is crumbling before our eyes.; November 1, 2012 at 2:18 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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