If an off duty officer was conducting a traffic stop, they were carrying out duties in their department vehicle and potentially uniform, they should be following department policies.

I've thought about moving North a few times. The climate here is only going to get warmer and warmer. And prices are only going up. Not sure where, but one day, I won't be living here.

Depends where you go. I normally go to Edison which is exactly as you describe, but I drove all the way down to Cape May once during the pandemic because I was impatient with something and all the Edison appts were booked. It was literally night and day, I was shocked at how personable the people in the place were compared to the DMVs up here.

Until you get the surprise $1000 adjustment at years end?

I'm curious if you read your own link. The fact that people informally refer to it as the Hague Invasion Act does not have anything to do with its actual purpose. The US is not going to be invading the Netherlands. Lol

We are so fucked.

A lot of labor jobs do just that and shut down and lay off their guys through the winter. Only the more important stuff continues, so if it's still happening, there is likely a good reason for it. A lot of them are currently trying to bang out the last bits of work they can before the Temps start dropping below freezing regularly, at which point even more of these companies call off work.

Hard to answer why without knowing the details of specific sites and the work they're doing.

Yeah why don't towns already lacking space for development in our dense area just magic up some property and drop a cool couple mil on indoor rec centers from their already tight budgets and increase the tax burden on us more. /s

There are some community centers out there that exist and make sense. There are also many good standing malls. Every town does not need their own. There are PLENTY of indoor recreational activities to do across almost the entire state. This is a silly post IMO.

It's just a general statement as what typically drives these types of rules. One rare terrible thing happens and everyone goes on a crusade to change everything to attempt to make sure nothing terrible ever happens again. Don't get me wrong, there are of course many things that are in fact worth fixing but some people don't understand that not every bad incident ought to require some sweeping solution in a senseless pursuit to make sure everyone is 100% perfectly safe, or tidy, or happy, etc. Sometimes, bad things happen, and we have to accept that and move on.

I don't know what specifically drove the 7PM curfew in this case, but based on the ridiculous nature of the rule, I can only assume the justification is equally bad.

This was my first thought when I read this. Lol.

One bad thing happens one time and you get all kinds of extremist zealots going "we can never let it happen again" and that's how these stupid rules end up inconveniencing everyone in some ridiculous way.

At some point we need to accept that sometimes, bad things might happen, and not everything can be fixed to be "perfectly splendid", especially not without removing normalcy. One bad incident does not neccesarily mean everyone else in your town needs to change their way of life to make sure it never happens again. A 7PM kid curfew on Halloween is ridiculous. People need to stop with the hopeless pursuit of making the world completely grey and bland with such stupid ordinances/laws. It's hard to argue against pursuing "making things better" so a lot of people just passively accept these extremist approaches and it never stops until you have no semblance of normal left. I've seen this type of attitude in businesses, I've seen it in HOA's, I've seen it in legislative bodies. They always end up worse off and no one can explain how they ended up there.

It reminds me of The Giver.

If you vote based on what one of these signs say, you shouldn't be voting.

They should be banned IMO. Don't need literally hundreds of signs within a quarter mile of road. It's out of control. They lined a half mile of stretch street in my town with signs every 2 to 3 feet.