At the request of the Ocean City Police Department (OCPD), Terry Steimer of the city’s Public Works Department presented the Mayor and City Council with cost estimates to install center armrests on benches to deter extended slumbers.
According to Steimer, the OCPD has expressed concern over individuals sleeping on the benches on the Boardwalk.
“They feel it interferes with the merchants, residents and tourists, so the idea is to put a center armrest on the bench that will prevent people being able to stretch out,” Steimer said.
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Next they will install parking meters on the benches. Just hire a Bosnian dude to patrol the boardwalk with a yardstick smacking a$$es of bench snoozers
Arrest the sleepers for loitering, end of problem.
Maybe the OCPD can take a few minutes and drive down the boardwalk. It will only take a few minutes away from the time they spend sitting in JR's parking lot every morning.
Who elected those idiots to even come up with such an absurd idea at tax payers expense.
You dumba$$es in Ocean City voted for some ignorant Democrats.
If it's against the law lock the clowns up.
If the police would do their jobs regarding these individuals, it would be a non-issue. There's a group well-known for hanging out in & around the Division St. bathrooms that they do nothing about. They can be seen sleeping on the benches in the middle of the day, drunk & passed out. One of them jumped out at a little girl on her bike, scared her so bad she nearly fell off her bike. He thought it was funny. Had I been her parent, he'd had a lumpy head!
"the OCPD has expressed concern over individuals sleeping on the benches on the Boardwalk."
Why is the OCPD expressing concern? How about the OCPD concern themselves with doing their job and arresting the vagrants or at least moving them along. Or since it seems to be the thing for police (satire alert), why don't they just shoot the sleepers for breaking the law.
Well now..... if they had all the officers including the plain clothes they claim they have on the Boardwalk (bus cop post) they wouldn't have to worry about anyone having an extended slumber on the Boardwalk benches, now would they?
Talk about talking out of both sides of the mouth and proof beyond a reasonable doubt that there are not enough officers on the Boardwalk!
why don't they just put a toll gate at the bridges and whatever amount of money people have is how long they can stay in that dump.
Hello Mr. Bench Sleeper "WAKE THE HELL UP AND NEXT TIME YOUR GETTING TAZED!!!!!!" end of problem.
It seems like too many officers in the off season and too few in the summer.
They can't seem to get any kind of happy medium going anymore. We've noticed this for about 5 or 6 years now.
A remote bench dumping switch would work nicely.OC police could have the app in their cellphones to use at their discretion.
4:41 All the year round police take their vacation in the summertime.
Gteat job OCPD
at least maybe you won't get bedbugs form a bench
OC needs to get rid of 3/4 of the benches on the boardwalk. There are way too many and it looks ridiculous.
While I understand they have been purchased by individuals as memorials and honors, the lack of the city to have any kind of forward thinking skills when it came to this program isn't understandable.
They should have charged an arm and a leg for the benches and limited it to 100 for the first round and added more if room and aesthetics permit.
As we all know, sleeping in a public place is a crime.
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