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dEn_of_asyD t1_j54cl6z wrote

Everyone's gonna say Camden, I'm actually going to say Atlantic City.

  1. First, Camden actually contributes worthwhile things. Its economy is pretty much "eds and meds". Atlantic City's economy is gambling and tourism, and not only are both very unproductive but it was only five years ago they were on the decline to the point of the city being bankrupt. While we're also talking about declines/progress, even now Campbell's (which is based in Camden) is bringing jobs from its acquisition from Snyder-Lance to Camden.

  2. Second, on crime Camden is by far most dangerous for violent crime. But AC has a higher rate of property crime per capita than Camden does. A big reason why AC is "safer" is just because Camden has twice the people (AC: 38k Camden:71k) in a smaller area (AC: 10.76 sq miles of land Camden: 8.92 sq miles of land). More interactions + more people --> more chances something goes shitty.

  3. Third, and most importantly, Camden is much safer than the people who have never been and don't live there will make it out to be. The problem with Camden is that you make one wrong turn and you're not safe anymore. The difference is night and day. Having needed to go to Camden to meet my freeholders, make trips to to Cooper University Hospital, attend jury duty, having gone to the aquarium and battleship NJ for school field trips, if you stay where you're supposed to Camden is fine. That's diametrically opposed to AC, where both you and the trouble are going to be in the same places.

I think most people are going to say Camden because of three reasons.

  1. Violent Crime. Which, honestly fair, though again AC isn't exactly a shining beacon of civil society.

  2. History of police corruption, which is a bit unfair considering they disbanded and replaced the former corrupt police department with a new one and that has seen dramatically improved results.

  3. Prejudice. People still associate AC with being a ritzy/glamorous hotspot. People associate Camden with drug use, violence, gangs, and negative stereotypes of people of color.

Only one of those is a decent reason, and it's a pretty simplistic reason that doesn't look towards the future and looks the other way on a lot of AC's bullshit.

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dEn_of_asyD t1_j4u9isz wrote

I'd second the call your district rep's constituent office to see what's up. They usually have a case worker or department contact who knows how it works.

Idk about ANCHOR, but my car is co-owned. I got it in college, my dad put his name down as a co-owner when documents were being made up. Anyways, whenever I do registration I have to get him to sign. They've rejected it when it's just my signature even though I'm the primary owner and he has his own car. I could get a title change, but with MVCs being the way they are it's just quicker to tell him to sign and move on for another year.

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dEn_of_asyD t1_iy7mpns wrote

First thing I found was https://www.ecapcity.com/products/old-school-nj-snapback-hat-navy-white-green-bottom which is unavailable.

I also found https://www.artistshot.com/new-jersey-logo-embroidery-embroidered-hat-baseball-cap-p-344179?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxfqhiZLT-wIVlYXICh0XAwLzEAQYASABEgJ1BPD_BwE but the N looks a little weird imo.

I could use the same hat for someone else though so hopefully someone else knows more.

edit: Looks like this website has a couple different colors/styles, but the font looks a little more cartoonish https://www.hatsline.com/product/new-jersey-nj-new-era-snapback-cap-3179517

But I did use https://www.hatsline.com's design a cap and they have the normal looking logo on there. Dunno how much the custom cap costs but yeah, you might need to make a custom cap unless someone has other options.

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dEn_of_asyD t1_iwyp2xx wrote

This.

"I was having a chill drive". Okay turd nugget we don't care about tHe gEneRaL vIbE oF yOuR dRiVe. We're interested in the situation.

Second, the story has holes in it. The way OP tells it, there's a car in front of holding up traffic. So the guy wasn't honking at OP, he was honking at the guy in front of OP. I get you're in line of fire, and that's unfortunate, but you're not the main character. Sometimes shit is just unfortunate and you're in the background of it, mind your own business and don't worry so much about other people's problems. But then also, OP says "You don't have to fucking wait for me". So wtf was it, was there another car in front or are you lying out your ass for intrawebz pts?

Third, let's not skip the fact that OP's "you don't have to fucking wait for me" is OP demanding others work around him. That' OP acts as if they're a problem that everyone else should be putting extra effort into avoiding, which is a fucking shit attitude to have when driving a fucking car.

Look, I'm not there. And I hate the online comments that act like they know more than the person telling the story. So I'm not going to be "THIS IS DEFINITELY WHAT HAPPENED". It could be OP innocently omitted a detail from the story. But it sounds suspiciously like someone was trying to turn left at a no left intersection and deserved to have their ears blown out with a car horn. Most left turning lanes in NJ are just that: exclusively left turning lanes. If there's no exclusively left turning lane, it's usually a jughandle. Trying to make an illegal left? They deserve to go deaf, the last thing we need is someone's stupid ass plowing into a mom driving her kid to soccer practice because they can't read road signs. Again, maybe there were just key details accidentally omitted. Maybe it is the few roads that are stupid in this state (it happens, esp in rural areas). But that doesn't detract that as of now, there's no reason to support OP's story.

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