 |
Search
Forgot Password?
Formatting
Character Archive
Mascot
Credits
Admin(Private)
|
|
|
We  N.J.
Prodigy:
(ooc) Guest Forum:
We N.J.
|
töff (Töff)
| |
 |
|
 |
|
Bad Luck In Prodigy, NJ
Condolences to the families and RIP to the victims.
More proof that probability law fails at this location!
BRADLEY BEACH, N.J., Nov. 21 — In a bizarre series of events, a passenger was killed early Tuesday after he was caught in the door of a New Jersey Transit train and dragged along the platform — just two and a half hours after another train he had been riding on hit and killed a woman as she stepped onto the track.
The passenger, John D’Agostino, a globe-trotting artist and teacher, rode Train No. 3293 out of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan at 10:41 p.m. on Monday, after landing at Kennedy International Airport earlier. He had arrived from his home in Turkey for a family Thanksgiving celebration that was to include a 50th birthday party for him and his twin brother, Joe, on Dec. 3.
At 11:44 p.m., when Mr. D’Agostino’s train was about a mile north of the Aberdeen-Matawan station, the engineer saw a woman standing on railroad property next to the tracks.
Dan Stessel, a spokesman for New Jersey Transit, said the woman stepped between the rails as the train approached. The engineer applied the emergency brake and sounded the horn, Mr. Stessel said, but the train struck the woman and she was killed.
About 200 passengers remained on the train, which ran on the North Jersey Coast Line, as the police began an investigation, Mr. Stessel said. The woman was not carrying any identification and the police said Tuesday they hoped to use her fingerprints to determine her identity.
After an hour, a second train with a new crew was brought alongside the first. The passengers boarded the new train and, about 1:30 a.m., continued on their way. It arrived at the Bradley Beach station about 2:15 a.m.
Mr. D’Agostino had been carrying a backpack, a duffel bag and a gym bag, his brother said. The doors opened and Mr. D’Agostino threw one of his bags onto the asphalt strip that served as a ground-level platform.
What happened next is not clear.
Joe D’Agostino said that detectives told him they thought that the doors had closed on his brother’s backpack as he got off the train. When the train began to move, Mr. D’Agostino was dragged along. Joe D’Agostino, relating the account of investigators, said his brother appeared to have freed himself from the pack and then fell under the moving train.
from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/nyregion/22train.html
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
Dimb (Unregistered Guest)
| |
|
|
Administration (Admin)
| |
|
|
|
|
For those of you who still can't decide whether it's a good idea to get into rape or pedophilia, here's one more item for the "cons" side of the list ... you could never play in Prodigy again!
New Jersey Bars Some Sex Offenders From Internet
The new law prohibits anyone convicted of using a computer to commit a sex offense from using computers or accessing the Internet for part or all of their parole.
By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
December 28, 2007 10:30 AM
New Jersey has banned some sex offenders from using computers or accessing the Internet.
Acting Gov. Richard Codey signed bill S1979 into law Thursday and announced that it will provide the state with nearly unparalleled authority to monitor or restrict Internet access by convicted sex offenders.
The law prohibits anyone convicted of using a computer to commit a sex offense from using computers or accessing the Internet for part or all of their parole. It also allows the State Parole Board to impose Internet restrictions on sex offenders who did not use a computer to facilitate their crimes.
The law requires the parolees to allow unannounced examinations of their computer equipment and the installation of monitoring hardware or software. It also would require convicted sex offenders to tell authorities if they have access to a computer or other devices that can access the Internet and obtain written approval to use computers or the Internet.
Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein, D-Middlesex/Mercer, a primary sponsor of the legislation, said the federal government has not enacted laws limiting Internet access for sex offenders. Florida and Nevada have enacted restrictions. Greenstein said the bill gives New Jersey residents some security.
"When Megan's Law was enacted, few could even envision a day when a sex offender hiding behind a fake screen name would be a mouse-click away from new and unwitting victims," she said in a statement. "Sex offenders cannot be given an opportunity to abuse the anonymity the Internet can provide as a means of opening a door to countless new potential victims."
Sen. John Girgenti, D-Bergen/Passaic, a co-sponsor of Megan's Law, said that "by taking computer and Internet access away from those who use these devices to commit sex crimes, we are reducing the risk of them being tempted to be a repeat offender."
Codey said in a statement that the law will give the people of New Jersey "some of the toughest tools in the nation to crack down on the growing threat of Internet predators."
He added, "Hopefully this law will help a lot of parents sleep easier at night."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
