Sunday, May 27, 2007
Da rules "down the shore"
If you are from New Jersey, you don't go to the beach, to the ocean, or down to the sea in ships. You go "down the shore." Now, there are a great many rules, town by town, that strictly regulate what may be done down the shore. One in particular caught my eye:
Many of the beach towns on Long Beach Island, one of New Jersey's most popular summer vacation spots, have laws prohibiting people from digging deeper than 12 inches in the sand. They stem from an accident several years ago in which a teenager died when a deep hole he was digging collapsed, burying him.
This year, the prohibition is for a different reason: More than 1,000 pieces of unexploded World War I-era military munitions were unwittingly pumped ashore during a winter beach replenishment project decades after being dumped at sea. Authorities say they've removed everything they could, but can't guarantee more munitions don't remain hidden.
I've never understood why people bury surplus munitions, even at sea. Wouldn't it be much more entertaining -- and safer for our progeny -- to explode all that stuff?
Oh, and don't ride a camel on the beach in Wildwood.
CWCID: Joe's Dartblog.
7 Comments:
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Sun May 27, 04:15:00 PM:
"Wouldn't it be much more entertaining...to explode all that stuff?"
Submit an unsolicited bid to handle the problem for the DoD in the future. Have fun.
The U.S. military dumped an enormous amount of equipment from both world wars. In the Philippines, brand new PT boats lined the beaches at the end of WWII. You could have bought one for about USD 5,500 if you agreed to haul it away.
Today the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service manages DoD surplus property sales programs:
http://www.drms.dla.mil/
By TigerHawk, at
Sun May 27, 04:17:00 PM:
You really have an answer for everything, don't you DEC? :)
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Sun May 27, 04:32:00 PM:
Yes, TH, I have been "around the horn."
Unfortunately, I often learned the most useful things the hard way.
Remember, I am an international arms dealer.
By Purple Avenger, at
Sun May 27, 06:36:00 PM:
On his way back from WWII after Europe was done, my dad watch vast amounts of stuff being dumped into the ocean rather than bringing it back.
By 
, at
Sun May 27, 10:03:00 PM:
Right now Hawaii is having a major fluff up over hundreds of tons of old ordinance dumped offshore.
The issue is not about explosions of the old weapons but if the sand and the fish are getting contaminated.
Of course the charge is being lead by environmental groups that if you follow the money go back to the Tides Foundation (Ms Kerry's pet boys) and George Soros (Mr. Hate America First).
By , at
Tue May 29, 10:23:00 AM:
These eco-jerks would have sued to halt the invasion at normandy becuase they claim a beach flea might get stepped on i say FEED THEES ECO-FREAKS TO THE SHARKS
By , at
Thu May 31, 03:45:00 PM:
DEC, your new blog is hysterical. Enable comments and you'll hear that from more than me. Linked to the lion tail story.
