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| At 24 Hour Fitness in Paramus, the joke is on the able bodied. How likely is it that the owner of a tile-installation company qualifies for a handicap parking permit? I could be wrong. Do they issue them for mental handicaps? |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Sexual exploitation of freshman women on college campuses has been a big concern for many years, but could this be the first time The Record has taken notice?
Editor Marty Gottlieb leads today's and Monday's front page with what a headline calls a "disturbing tale" at William Paterson University in Wayne.
Monday's Page 1 story tried to make the issue seem fresh, not something the editors have basically ignored:
"The arrest of William Paterson students on charges of sexual assault comes at a time when national concern about campus rape is growing," Staff Writer Jim Norman reported, years late, it turns out (Monday's A-1).
Bottom of barrel
Gottlieb had so little to put on Monday's front page he actually ran at least the third story since the Nov. 4 election on Governor Christie's out-of-state fundraising for GOP crackpots like himself.
Then, he used a big picture of the pope making nice with some patriarch in Istanbul -- an embrace that surely inflamed the many Armenian readers who will never forget the genocide of 1.5 million of their Christian ancestors under Ottoman rule.
Staff Writer Virginia Rohan polluted the bottom of Monday's front page with yet another story on bimbo Teresa Giudice.
More corrections
Today's A-2 carries a correction of Monday's front-page WPU story, in which the names of two suspects in the alleged rape were misspelled.
That's sloppy, but typical of The Record.
More 'Bloopers'
Uncorrected are the mistakes Road Warrior John Cichowski included in his Sunday column on blocked Little Ferry intersections.
Cichowski is so dizzy and disoriented, he misreported a) the location of two intersections and b) that the Little Ferry Circle is being rebuilt, when it has, in fact, been eliminated, according to the Facebook page for Road Warrior Bloopers:
1) Clueless false statement - "Two days before Thanksgiving, signs appeared on Route 46 — as if by magic — to warn motorists to avoid blocking intersections in Little Ferry that are generally jammed with traffic while construction crews rebuild a nearby bridge and traffic circle."
CORRECT FACTS - While construction is rebuilding the bridge, the traffic circle is being replaced with a four-way, stop light intersection.
The only magic is in the Road Warrior's exaggerated mind. Everybody else realizes that one day a portable sign is not there, and the next time they see a portable sign, it has been placed there by a road crew. No magic!
2) Clueless false statement - "Technically, Liberty and Grand were just east of the contractor's work zone."
CORRECT FACTS - Technically, Liberty and Grand streets were and are just west of the contractor's work zone for the Little Ferry Circle replacement on Route 46.
See: Road Warrior can't break gridlock of errors
Now Victor, did it ever occur to you that maybe the owner of the tile company slipped on one of his own tiles and busted up his leg? Or that he got a hernia trying to lift an 80 pound bundle of tiles? Now if you followed him into the gym and snapped a picture of the van owner bench pressing 200 pounds, that would be different. Of course if he saw you taking his picture he'd probably throw the barbell at you. On the other hand, I agree that people who illegally take handicap spaces, and even those who are in fine physical shape but have a spouse or parent who qualify for the plate and take advantage of the space, all richly deserve to be called morons.
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