1. Labor Day note: The Neptune municipal offices and the library will be closed on Monday, September 3.
2. Jane, who lives in the mountains (i.e., near Mt. Zion), reports that someone was speaking into a bullhorn at 5:30 a.m. Sunday. She said, “It went on for hours.” Please let us know if you can explain what Jane reported. Thanks Jane — this is the perfect post for our Bull Board. (Note: It turns out that the noise was related to an athletic competition in Asbury Park)
3. From Gail Morrell: The panhandler who roamed OG has reappeared. His story is the same. Just out of prison, no place to stay, needs train fare to ??? Will approach on the street and did actually come on our porch. Police have been notified that he is lurking.
Does anyone know why the town is about to drop 30k on a hot patch asphalt machine when there is one sitting at the yard they never use?
The bullhorn (? I thought it was a microphone and amps) emanated from the parking lot west of the old Carousel building — it was the Asbury Park SheRox triathalon. See the event website at
http://www.sheroxtri.com/asbury-park-nj.html
I could hear it clearly as far away as Ocean Pathway at 7 am. I called the AP police to complain about the noise and the harried person who answered said the triathalon had a permit for the event from 7 to 9:30 am. AP’s town council approved it because it was in the entertainment district where noise is apparently expected.
I see that the event website says the site opened up at 5:30, which might explain the noise heard by some just after 5. Since their permit did not start until 7, it’s a shame no one called to complain before 7. I was told the police could do nothing since it was after 7 when I called.
Is there some way our Neptune Township council could write to complain to Asbury’s town council? This will happen again unless Asbury is convinced to stop issuing permits.
If nothing else, people, please call the police and complain when this kind of thing happens. Maybe we should call the home numbers of the AP town council!
I heard that bullhorn racket early Sunday morning, and to me, lying in bed, it sounded like some kind of loud dispute taking place right outside our house. I got out of bed and went out on the porch to investigate, wondering whether I should call the police. Only then did I realize it was coming from an event in AP.
Later that morning, at a neighborhood brunch, it was a topic of conversation. People couldn’t understand why anyone would be allowed to make so much noise so early in the morning.
The event was the SheROX triathlon in Asbury. The speakers (not a bullhorn) we were hearing were at the back of the Carousel, as that was the transition area. I had volunteered to be a ‘swim angel,’ so I was planning to get up at 6 a.m. However, they woke me up at 5:30 a.m. When I got there at 6:15, I asked them to turn down the speakers as they were waking everyone in Ocean Grove. No one paid attention to me; even the guy running the sound board didn’t care. There seemed to be no one in charge.
It was the poorest-run tri I’ve seen. They cancelled the swim portion, as the AP lifeguards told them to. Even if they help the swim, they didn’t have enough swim angels (we only counted 5 of us), nor equipment, as this billed as a good tri for beginners.
The bullhorn racket could be heard quite clearly on Cookman Avenue (south side of the Grove). So, too, could the singer singing the national anthem. At first, I thought one of my neighbors (grrrr) was singing or blasting music.
The guy with the bullhorn must have been quite pleased with himself as he droned on with a coundown of 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 60 seconds, etc.
We can probably expect more of the same from Asbury Park (remember the success of Bamboozle and plans for a “bigger and better” event in 2013?)!.