Hoboken St. Patty's Day Parade Not Fun For All Residents

Earlier this week, Hoboken's public safety official lamented what happened during this past Saturday's St. Patrick's Day parade (Hoboken hold their parade early)—an affair that included public urination from rooftops, a couple having sex in public view, and a lot of drunkenness—and suggested the parade wasn't worth the trouble. Other residents might agree, like this person who put up a notice in his/her apartment building, The Summit, to question the chaos a neighbor's house party had brought. NJ.com has a photo of the notice, via "Duffy's bartender Chris Halleron in his "Derelict of the Week" newsletter (he did not post the letter himself; he just sent out the photo of it on his newsletter)." Read the rest of the letter here.

Some more photographs of parade revelry were taken by one man who attempted to watch the parade, but was instead assaulted by some other people.

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By Jen Chung in News on March 12, 2009 6:28 PM

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felixthecat2

Valeriob hit a all time low with his defecation on the floor.

valeriob

Quick, someone call a Whaaaambulance.

I guess that neighbor wasn't invited to the party.

Sorry for the poop.

thefacts

You want to start comparing? Here goes:

NJ cops charged with racial profiling, illegal searches and corruption

Mayor of Jersey City and Newark indicted

Toxic Elizabeth

Ramapo Hillbillies

Maple syrup and other vast chemical pollution

etc, etc

But at least our St. Patrick's Parade doesn't have people peeing and crapping in their own buildings.

Admit it. We don't call you 'B&T trash' without cause.

openheads

"We don't call you 'B&T trash' without cause."

Ummm....... Yes you do. Ignorant, trashy incidents occur all the time in NYC, yet it's always "that" person is trash, not "Queens is full of trash" or whatever when something happens. You ignore the good & wait for the negative in NJ to say, "see, I told you".

NYC is a masterbatorium that loves to hate everything that is not NYC. NJ just happens to be in the unfortunate circumstance of being your neighbor. Provincialism is a sport in your city.

ianmac47

You are forgetting the JC councilman who peed off a balcony onto a crowd of people, and that the current JC mayor was photographer naked on his front porch BEFORE getting elected.

openheads

NYPD officers raping women, Bernie Madoff stealing vast amounts of money from people, Williamsburg, police inserting plungers into immigrants anuses, Staten Island, bedbugs & yet New Jersey is full of scum?

Some of you need to step away from the circle jerk that is the NYC mind frame for just one second.

NannyState

Yeah but when we defecate in public, we do it ironically...with a touch of class.

interlard

Norther NJ (especially Hoboken) is full of scum. Why this should be a surprise to anyone is beyond me.

valeriob

I'm just not sure about your drastic generalization.

Sounds kind of...ignorant.

Hoboken is one square mile packed full of twenty-somethings with more bars per mile than a penitentiary.

That doesn't mean that N.Jersey falls under the same category.

NannyState

That 'maple syrupy smell' just took a dark turn...

Thespis

This is why NJ has a reputation for being full of nasty, steroidal "bro's." I mean -- defecating in the hallways? Really?

But what really gets me is that the uproar on the NJ.com site was over the fact that the letter writer was anonymous. Because if you want to complain about someone taking a dump on your doorstep, you've really got to be willing to fight the guy over it -- otherwise, you've got no place complaining. (Hey, pass the steroids!)

So, ok, new rule -- New Jersey, you can visit New York on weekends and for work. But, uh, try not to poop on anything while you're here, k?

Snoopy

What gives? I saw a fireman in one of the pictures. When did they start drinking? The picture of the girl who is barely vertical should consider one or two less pitchers per hour of Guiness as she is putting on a bit around the mid section.

Bozack. I don't see any Black Irish they all seem to be a wearing of the green.

Snoopy

Touchy touchy. A few deposits of human biological functions and the person gets annoyed. Can you imagine if she lived on the LES?

Here's hoping they make St. Brendan's birthday a special holiday also. There were two St. Brendan's so they need to be celebrated separately also. Along with St. Finian, St. Ciarán of Saighir, St. Ciaran of Clonmacnoise, two St. Columba's, St. Mobhí, St. Ruadhain, St. Senan, St. Ninnidh, St. Lasserian, and St. Canice. So if I was this person I would be counting my blessings. Plus you have New Year's Eve, Halloween, 4th of July, Super Bowl Sunday, Mardi Gras, Puerto Rican Pride Day, the Carribean festival, Norwegian unification Day.

Bozack

They may be wearing green, but they ain't Irish.

Bozack

PS - most of those people in the photos appear to be of Mediterranean origin. Black Irish prehaps?

http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2009/03/taking_photos_of_drunk_people.html