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No, it's not the script from a bad horror movie, it was the USDA setting out poisoned seed to cull the local flocks of starlings in my old hometown. People are pretty pissed off that they weren't warned about it.

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"It was raining birds," said Franklin Township Mayor Brian Levine. "It got people a little anxious."

(Incidentally, the little map in this article has an arrow pointing to the wrong Franklin, NJ.)

MarleysGh0st wrote:No, it's not the script from a bad horror movie, it was the USDA setting out poisoned seed to cull the local flocks of starlings in my old hometown. People are pretty pissed off that they weren't warned about it.

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"It was raining birds," said Franklin Township Mayor Brian Levine. "It got people a little anxious."

I thought it was a sign the earth's core was losing it's magnetic field because it's rotation was slowing down, like in that stupid movie The Core.

MarleysGh0st wrote:No, it's not the script from a bad horror movie, it was the USDA setting out poisoned seed to cull the local flocks of starlings in my old hometown. People are pretty pissed off that they weren't warned about it.

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"It was raining birds," said Franklin Township Mayor Brian Levine. "It got people a little anxious."

(Incidentally, the little map in this article has an arrow pointing to the wrong Franklin, NJ.)

Just how many Franklins are there in NJ?

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"It was raining birds," said Franklin Township Mayor Brian Levine. "It got people a little anxious."

Oral Roberts! Paging Oral Roberts! White courtesy phone, please.

ulysses5019 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:No, it's not the script from a bad horror movie, it was the USDA setting out poisoned seed to cull the local flocks of starlings in my old hometown. People are pretty pissed off that they weren't warned about it.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... AD95VF0LO0

"It was raining birds," said Franklin Township Mayor Brian Levine. "It got people a little anxious."

(Incidentally, the little map in this article has an arrow pointing to the wrong Franklin, NJ.)

Just how many Franklins are there in NJ?

There's a town called Franklin in Northern Jersey.

In the article, they're talking about Franklin TOWNSHIP, which is in central Jersey.

ne1410s wrote:

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"It was raining birds," said Franklin Township Mayor Brian Levine. "It got people a little anxious."

Oral Roberts! Paging Oral Roberts! White courtesy phone, please.

I'll get it after I get out from under my desk!

I WARNED YOU PEOPLE NOT TO PISS HIM OFF!!!!!!!!

ulysses5019 wrote: Just how many Franklins are there in NJ?

Several! But this article is about Franklin Township in Somerset County.

Local historians still debate whether it was named after Benjamin or his son, the Royal Governor.

Jeemie wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:No, it's not the script from a bad horror movie, it was the USDA setting out poisoned seed to cull the local flocks of starlings in my old hometown. People are pretty pissed off that they weren't warned about it.

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(Incidentally, the little map in this article has an arrow pointing to the wrong Franklin, NJ.)

Just how many Franklins are there in NJ?

There's a twon called Franklin in Northern Jersey.

In the article, they're talking about Franklin TOWNSHIP, which is in central Jersey.

Don't most people refer to Franklin Township as Somerset?

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:

Jeemie wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote: Just how many Franklins are there in NJ?

There's a twon called Franklin in Northern Jersey.

In the article, they're talking about Franklin TOWNSHIP, which is in central Jersey.

Don't most people refer to Franklin Township as Somerset?

Now don't confuse me.

ToLiveIsToFly wrote: Don't most people refer to Franklin Township as Somerset?

Someone who's familiar with the area, I see!

Somerset is the largest of several neighborhoods (or villages, if you rather, but they have no legal standing) in Franklin Township. A lot of the farmland that used to separate these neighborhoods have been filling in with McMansions and condo developments, in recent years.

Most of this story was taking place in the historic old neighborhood of Griggstown.

ulysses5019 wrote: Now don't confuse me.

Too late!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote: Now don't confuse me.

Too late!

Part of the confusion is that the post office doesn't use Franklin Township as a mailing address. It still recognizes the old neighborhood names so there are Somerset (08875), Franklin Park (08823), Kingston (08528), Rocky Hill (08553) and Zarepath (08890), all in Franklin Township.

Franklin Park last had its claim to infamy when the anthrax terrorist forged that return address on his envelopes. (But he used the wrong zip code!)

Starlings are an awful, awful problem. We did everything we could to get rid of them on our hog farm when I was a kid. They spread TGE among other diseases. TGE is transmissible gastroenteritis. When you get it into a hog population it kills every baby pig and makes all the rest of them sick. It wiped out our herd twice while I was a teenager.


We wound up having to tear down a couple of old barns just to eliminate roosting sites. We poisoned on a regular basis. And the starlings kept coming back. Starlings falling out of the sky is a good thing.

Can they start on the non-migratory Canadian geese next? With all due respect to our BBs from the Great White North, those birds are equivalent to karaoke in my mind as the worst-ever import from their respective countries.

I suppose it's not possible. The geese would leave a much larger dent falling out of the sky onto your car than the starlings.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote: Now don't confuse me.

Too late!

Part of the confusion is that the post office doesn't use Franklin Township as a mailing address. It still recognizes the old neighborhood names so there are Somerset (08875), Franklin Park (08823), Kingston (08528), Rocky Hill (08553) and Zarepath (08890), all in Franklin Township.

Franklin Park last had its claim to infamy when the anthrax terrorist forged that return address on his envelopes. (But he used the wrong zip code!)

See, I knew you were deliberately trying to confuse my already addled brain.

gsabc wrote:Can they start on the non-migratory Canadian geese next? With all due respect to our BBs from the Great White North, those birds are equivalent to karaoke in my mind as the worst-ever import from their respective countries.

I suppose it's not possible. The geese would leave a much larger dent falling out of the sky onto your car than the starlings.

We went out to lunch today and the parking lot of the Chilli's were we went was almost solid goose s--t.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote: Now don't confuse me.

Too late!

Part of the confusion is that the post office doesn't use Franklin Township as a mailing address. It still recognizes the old neighborhood names so there are Somerset (08875), Franklin Park (08823), Kingston (08528), Rocky Hill (08553) and Zarepath (08890), all in Franklin Township.

Franklin Park last had its claim to infamy when the anthrax terrorist forged that return address on his envelopes. (But he used the wrong zip code!)

You can't fool me. Rocky Hill isn't part of Franklin Township.

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: Too late!

Part of the confusion is that the post office doesn't use Franklin Township as a mailing address. It still recognizes the old neighborhood names so there are Somerset (08875), Franklin Park (08823), Kingston (08528), Rocky Hill (08553) and Zarepath (08890), all in Franklin Township.

Franklin Park last had its claim to infamy when the anthrax terrorist forged that return address on his envelopes. (But he used the wrong zip code!)

You can't fool me. Rocky Hill isn't part of Franklin Township.

Busted!

But Rockingham, the house where Washington wrote his farewell to the troops, is generally identified as being in Rocky Hill but actually is in Franklin Township, so close enough.

So how does someone in Chicago knows so much about Franklin Township? Did you used to be a neighbor of mine?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: Part of the confusion is that the post office doesn't use Franklin Township as a mailing address. It still recognizes the old neighborhood names so there are Somerset (08875), Franklin Park (08823), Kingston (08528), Rocky Hill (08553) and Zarepath (08890), all in Franklin Township.

Franklin Park last had its claim to infamy when the anthrax terrorist forged that return address on his envelopes. (But he used the wrong zip code!)

You can't fool me. Rocky Hill isn't part of Franklin Township.

Busted!

But Rockingham, the house where Washington wrote his farewell to the troops, is generally identified as being in Rocky Hill but actually is in Franklin Township, so close enough.

So how does someone in Chicago knows so much about Franklin Township? Did you used to be a neighbor of mine?

Grew up in Colonia. Had cousins in Kendall Park. Used to take Route 27.

ToLiveIsToFly wrote: Grew up in Colonia. Had cousins in Kendall Park. Used to take Route 27.

Small world! I probably knew some of your cousins!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

ToLiveIsToFly wrote: Grew up in Colonia. Had cousins in Kendall Park. Used to take Route 27.

Small world! I probably knew some of your cousins!

I'm probably related to them!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

ToLiveIsToFly wrote: Grew up in Colonia. Had cousins in Kendall Park. Used to take Route 27.

Small world! I probably knew some of your cousins!

Well, they're the Goldsteins who weren't Jewish. The boys went to St Joe's. Don't know where the Cathy went.

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

ToLiveIsToFly wrote: Grew up in Colonia. Had cousins in Kendall Park. Used to take Route 27.

Small world! I probably knew some of your cousins!

Well, they're the Goldsteins who weren't Jewish. The boys went to St Joe's. Don't know where the Cathy went.

Really? That's my high school alma mater! I don't recall any Goldsteins when I was there, though.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: Small world! I probably knew some of your cousins!

Well, they're the Goldsteins who weren't Jewish. The boys went to St Joe's. Don't know where the Cathy went.

Really? That's my high school alma mater! I don't recall any Goldsteins when I was there, though.

What year were you? We used to barely beat you guys in basketball (which had nothing to do with me) and quiz bowl stuff (which had a lot to do with me).

I graduated in '76. No quiz bowl when I was there, alas.