No problem James, nice to know you are feeling better and have a little humor this morning. I have some interesting photos to share perhaps, you can explain why they can't posted on Patch sites?

Teaneck_Resident: Call the cops and they will ticket the cars (have done this in the past and they gladly came and wrote $100 tickets!).

Can we also get the pedestrians NOT to walk on QUEEN ANNE RD (in the street). Really is not a safe /intelligent practice since there are SIDEWALKS for exactly that purpose!

karin,

A year ago I would have. But I've gotten so sick of people doing this that I'm just going to start being one of those that doesn't care or respects my neighborhood, it's just easier. I'm going to re-route my sump pump so it empties into the street and the water freeze up, I'm going to buy a junk car and park it on my lawn on cinder blocks and I'm going to blast music all day from 8am to 8pm.

Also, the stupid DPW guys go by here with the plows so i don't see why they can't let the Teaneck PD know that cars are parked on the street?

Teaneck_Resident: Agree the DPW plow drivers should be calling the TPD and notifying them of cars parked in the streets so they can be ticketed, why they do not do this I don't know. We had a major problem at the top of our street with people not utilizing their driveways and leaving their cars in the street. Getting a $100 tkt solved that problem and now it really is not an issue any longer. What I find disgusting also are homeowners that do not shovel their sidewalks, why isn't this ordinance enforced? Alot of stuff on the books in this town that simply are just not enforced, why?

Karin,

The DPW workers probably don't call the PD because they don't get paid to make calls just plow. I hate to say it but they are not the brightest bulbs in the bunch, nor do they really care about anything other than OT pay.

Why are ordinances not enforced...? Because the township doesn't care. That's why I no longer are either. Just you wait....listen for the loud music from 8am to 8pm, the junk ar grow weeds out of the hood on cinder blocks in my front lawn and the sump pump dumping water all over the street so it freezes and cars slide out. Watch out Rutland Ave...it's party time.

Sadly, I worked my way through college at a DPW and my opinion stands firm. None of the people that I worked with had any common sense or intelligence to think a head. You may not like the truth but that's what it is. The Teaneck DPW is the same way, ten years ago I lived next to a Teanek DPW employee. He was by far the most ignorant and dense person I had ever spoken with (as were his o-workers that would visit). He still has the same blank, clueless stare today as ten years ago. A few weeks ago two Teaneck DPW workers were having a conversation on Sussex Ave (from one truck to the other) and blocking traffic. Do you think they should have pulled over and not blocked traffic? Common sense, ignorance or stupidity? Oh...no that's a higher level of intellect. Perhaps these fine intelligent DPW workers can explain the origins of Moby-Dick or unravel the mystery of what existed before 1 Planck Time.

That might work with some people, but sadly many can not be bothered even when you do remind them. Those same people that leave their cars in the street usually are the ones that refuse to shovel their sidewalks or employee one of the random teenagers that are looking to make some pocket change (another town ordinance that is never enforced). Paul, residents are reminded every year to remove their cars from the street, shovel their sidewalks and they still do not get it, sometimes a monetary hit is just what people need to learn a lesson!

Paul,

I understand but I'm done being nice and doing the right thing. The residents here know they have to move thier cars they just don't care. By they way, "they"can move thier car I won't be moving it for them.

Karin nailed it on the head. It has to cost them money and then they will move their cars. It's called ignorance.

Well, I decided to all the PD and let them know that sidewalks have not been shoveled and people are forced to walk in the street. That was at 2PM, four hours later not a single PD car has been spotted anywhere. So the Teancek PD said they would send someone out to look. When maybe in a month or two? I know other stuff always goes on but gimme a break...

Teaneck_Resident: Yeah 4 hours is just a tad long to wait! Wonder what their excuse is? Maybe call them again and ask why no one has been by and remind them that the town has an ordinance about shoveling snow, maybe suggest that this is a revenue maker for them :)

I had a talk with the crossing guard oops sorry TPO that was working on Queen Anne Rd by the synagogue yesterday asked if he could suggest to the pedestrians not to walk in the street but on the sidewalk because it was not safe, this was around 9am when the snow was coming down in buckets. His response was he would not do that and there was nothing he could do. I proceeded to drive away shaking my head.

karin,

That doesn't suprise me at all. The TPO is being paid to play crossing guard and nothing else. He's not being paid to use his any level of intelligene at all.

Teaneck_Resident if that is the case that they are hired to be ONLY a crossing guard, perhaps they should not wear their TP uniform that is really misleading!