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General Category => Hackensack Discussion => Topic started by: BLeafe on May 18, 2013, 07:25:15 PM
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I thought it was an inverted Apollo space capsule when I first saw it.
(hint: it IS government-owned)
I'll post the answer at another time if no one gets it.
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Bomb disposal truck?
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Nope.
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Ashphalt patching truck ???
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Yep - it's the "Pothole Killer", as you can see on the side of the truck under the "County of Bergen" sign.
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This should be pretty easy:
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The rare pine coneus hackensackeus?
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You're pretty close............... it's an original pinus coneus paramusus that was found on the grounds of the original factory - a place called "Bergen Pines".
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I would have bet a dollar that it was something that a food vendor was hawking at the Holy Trinity carnival.
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I never saw one of these before, but it wasn't hard to figure it out. Of course, I'm not providing the context - which makes it easy - but if no one gets it, I provide that
in two days next year.
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thats an easy one...
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A quarter for your thoughts.
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Yup........
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Besides being the entrance to 29 Linden?
I doubt anyone has seen this effect before, but it should be pretty easy to figure out.
(first seen while I was in the kitchen washing dishes)
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No guesses on the above, huh?
It's fairly simple, but I'll have to get a VHS tape digitized to illustrate what it was.
Meanwhile, I shot something a couple of weeks ago that I really have no idea what it was...............a log? A capsized canoe?
A half-hour after I took the first picture, it had hardly moved, so I took another shot and blew it up as much as possible - not a log or a canoe.
An hour-and-a-quarter after the first shot, something looked different, so I took the third shot. It appeared to have broken up, but I still don't know what it was.
Any ideas?
Click to enlarge.
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i know, i know!!!
about a month or so ago the riverkeeper had a river cleanup day. we had a boat detail to pull out anyone who happened to tip their canoe over. the big project that day was to get the floating oil booms free of the railroad trestle, they were all hung up on underwater cables and wrapped around the bridge pilings. there was no way that they were going to do this with a canoe, so we assisted them in removing them. They have large chains on them to weigh down the lower skirts. they were probably 500-600 lbs each, and there were 4 of them. with the help of the people in the canoes we were able to remove 3 of the 4 sections from the water by dragging it with our boat to our boat ramp, and believe me, it was not easy to do with a 25hp motor.... the 4th one is this one. it was so tangled with underwater obstructions we could not get it freed. it looks like nature loosened up the 4th one.
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That's pretty amazing.
I blew up the last picture (below) and it definitely looks like a boom.
The river cleanup was August 22. After that, the boom got free somehow and made it to the middle of Kipp's Bend by September 6 (when I took the pictures)....................I wonder where it would be by now.
The Oradell Reservoir?
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You can probably guess what most of the red lights are, but what are the 3 large yellowish lights that form a diagonal in the right half?
Hints: I'm looking south and they're not there every night.
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There was a news article about this. It's a floating boom, one of four or five dislodged by the Hackensack Fire Dept in conduction with the Riverkeeper Organization. The source was a bridge in Hackensack further south. This one "got away".
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sounds familiar...
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It's a floating boom
Ooooooo............you're oh-so-close.
Try again.
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OK - this one's not easy.
When I first moved in here, I could see these lights in the sky behind the red Meadowlands radio tower lights on some nights, but not others. When they DID show up, the number of these lights usually varied between 2 and 5 every few minutes and while they stayed more or less on the same diagonal, they would show up at different points along the diagonal.
It took me about two years to figure out that they were airplanes coming in to land at Newark Airport. The top light is the most distant plane and the bottom one is about to land and if I recall correctly, the planes are supposed to be 5 miles apart.
When the wind comes in from another direction, they fly overhead southbound to land.
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The river cleanup was August 22. After that, the boom got free somehow and made it to the middle of Kipp's Bend by September 6 (when I took the pictures)....................I wonder where it would be by now. The Oradell Reservoir?
It's on the Teaneck side of Kipp's Bend.
I was in Foschini Park yesterday and noticed the sliver of a familiar color across the river.
Is this something that the HFD wants to retrieve, Mike?
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While I was on the Anderson Bridge south walkway yesterday, I noticed a familiarly-colored floating item (1) snagged behind River Liquors (ever lick a river?).
Apparently, the boom recently moved from just around the bend in Teaneck, where it would have been difficult to retrieve. It looks bunched up in the second picture, but a walk behind the liquor store shows that it's elongated (3) and doesn't appear heavily-snagged (4).
The fifth picture shows that it's fairly close to the shore, so if the HFD or the Riverkeeper wants to retrieve it, this might be a good opportunity before it moves elsewhere again.
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What are those things attached to this unmarked HPD vehicle...........radar?
I've never seen them before.
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Probably license plate readers. They are becoming common these days.
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thats what they are