Use chairs to save spaces. Illegal, but will you call the police? This photo is from Baltimore.
To The Editor:
Re: Neighborliness in Ocean Grove
August 31, 2021
There is a website called NextDoor which includes Ocean Grove and some surrounding towns. This quote is from the NextDoor website where they claim to want “a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.”
Well, this internet site is not averse to allowing nastiness and unneighborliness to emerge.
Recently a Grover named Jim Douglas posted a photograph on NextDoor of a house in the Grove. He did that because he noticed and disliked two cones placed in front of the home to save a parking space.
He had no idea why the cones were placed at that time, but he decided that readers should come down on that family and “shame them.” He advocated calling the Neptune Police in such a situation because parking cones are illegal. He suggested that the cone family must be self important and greedy.
Aside from the specific issue of saving parking spaces with cones, he advocates on that site that neighbors should spy on each other, call the cops, take pictures of houses belonging to a guilty family and then to post the pictures on NextDoor, so that some sort of online kangaroo court can convene to provoke the rest of us to take some action against our neighbors.
Fortunately, he received no support on the site. Then he doubled down and re-posted the house photo and divulged where it is located in the Grove.
The community of Ocean Grove should always speak out against such vile and ignorant suggestions. Don’t forget that social media bullying has the capacity to incite anger, depression, vitriol, and violence.
Let’s not allow that in our community.
Differences between neighbors can be handled in a much more civilized way.
Marcia Higgins
Ocean Grove.
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Note: Here is a link to a Blogfinger article on this topic: