Silence sirens in Cranbury forever

[Mediator]

[guestguest]

You forgot narcissist.

In fairness there have been plenty of polite, reasonable posts that address him respectfully and don't call him names. And he repays them by ignoring anything he doesn't have an answer to, making up things occasionally and continuing to use over-the-top language. So I take your point about not reducing the responses to Mr. Moody's level but he's demonstrated he doesn't have any real interest in respectful discourse. Not an excuse, but a reality.

As for the idea of "having a mature discussion" that ship has sailed. People have made reasonable points here and elsewhere. The useful dialogue is there for anyone who cares to review and filter through the more frustrated replies. What more is there to say?

[Move on]

It has been discussed and discussed. The people and the Commitee have spoken. The siren(s) stay. Mr. Moody can continue to campaign, move, or live with it. If he chooses to continue to campaign he is only given credibility if people continue to respond, even it is to argue with him.

[The Underlying Issue]

Every time there is a fire alarm, the faithful volunteers of Cranbury drop what they're doing and answer the call. Many, if not most, of the calls they receive are false alarms at the warehouses. IMO- The "inconvenience" to everyday residents pales in comparison to the real problem- the impact of false alarms on our volunteer firefighters.

I know the committee has been working to address this over the years by increasing fines and communicating with the warehouse owners. I hope the TC continues to make progress on this issue before we burn out those who are willing to volunteer.

[Villager]

[Reason]

I have no idea if anyone has offered to speak with Mr. Moody. However, I do know three TC members met with him as have members of the department and squad. So Mr. Moody is not being ignored by those in power.

My view is based on how difficult it was to modify the siren times from hearing Mr. Taylor speak at TC meetings that a 6 month period is not easy. Further let's say it happens and a call is missed will someone who is late getting care or has a home damaged accept that they were part of a test? If they do 6 months and the siren comes back does anyone really feel that Mr.Moody will be okay? The volunteers changed the siren time to try and accommodate Mr. Moody's complaints and others. Now that good deed of shutting the sirens off after 9 is used against them.

I say let those who have the knowledge and responsibility for our safety decide.

[fortherecord]

Here's a typical line from one of Mr. Moody's previous editorials which may have been one of the longest ones every published in the Press.

"Apart from the tacky neon “open” sign, surrounded by twinkling blue stars, at the ancient Cranbury Inn (where the owner is also allowed to park his vulgar bright yellow “Va Bene” Corvette in pole position in full view of passersby) and the tired looking psychedelic bench outside Charmed by Claire, the township has wisely kept any potential visual pollution from taking over."

[Granpa Lemon]

Yeahhhhhh................back in my day, we didn't have newfangled 'lectricity messin' everything up. Neon, lightbulbs, streetlights........all messin' everything up I tells ya. Why, when I was knee high to a jackrabbit, we had sunlight, and we was dern glad ta have it too! We wasn't spoiled with video games and Wii and Xbox and television. Thets the trouble with kids today, they got way too much power!!! We didn't have batteries, or GPS or nuthin' moderen. We rubbed sticks together.........thet wuz owr fun!!!!!!!

[Granpa Lemon]

[Post]

[Senior]

[Sirens]

Many have blue lights, but people are not always looking behind them. As a Main St resident I have seen cars ignore and be oblivious to these volunteers. The point remains none of us are qualified to say no. If those with experience say yes we need it that should suffice.

[Senior]

[Sirens]

This is why you have to let the professionsls make decisions. Blue is the only option legally.

Just let those who know the laws and have the information make the decisions.

[Leftwing townsfolk.......]

I was interested in moving to this town until a few friends of mine told me to read this forum, and they were 100% correct when they told me that there were too many liberals in this town that lack common sense. Any town where the residents get upset over police, fire, and ambulance sirens to the point where they want to silence them is way too far to the left for me and my family to purchase a home there! As a resident of any town, I most certainly would want the EMERGENCY SERVICE responders to make as much noise as possible so any children would have ample warning to get out of the way, and also any elderly who may be behind on the audio scale! My father always said, the liberals will legislate and tax themselves out of their own homes if you give them enough room to do so!

PS: You can keep the excess supply of homes all to yourselves!

[aResident]