We thought there were supposed to be less police waving at traffic around construction sites, not more

When Mayor Steve Fulop took office, he said that getting civilian-trained people who weren't police officers to handle traffic around construction sites in our fair city was the plan going forward. There would be less official police presence because, well there's still a lot of crime in Jersey City and they were also going to be using dozens and dozens of extra police in the mornings and afternoons to help smooth the Pulaski Skyway shutdown.

By any measure a quick walk anywhere downtown seems either the mayor's grand plan to take police away from low impact low stress jobs at building sites and put them back into policing the community is flailing about like a fish. Did police push back quietly to the point they themselves are getting these sweet shifts? Could the city not find people interested in making money standing at closed intersections and roads? Because by any metric you'd like to use the police are back handling all the road closures and the civilian-trained guards have become like Jersey City's own Sasquatch, seen rarely, never filmed and mostly tall tales.

So Mr. Fulop, what happened?

3 cops, one intersection

'Big Red Eye', an evasive legend in Sussex County

Now Johnny knows each state pretty much has some kind of bigfoot/sasquatch sightings from time to time. They had them in Michigan and now Johnny learns of 'Big Red Eye', a bigfoot-type animal supposedly roaming areas of the Kittatinny Ridge.

Many have claimed to see Big Red Eye, others have claimed to hear something other than the foxes, bobcats and bears on the night air. Is it real? Does a bigfoot really roam the mountainous regions of New Jersey? If you ask Debora Carlson she's likely to tell you it IS real;

Debora Carlson, a seventh-grade teacher from Bergen County, is a believer. She’s been afraid of the woods since hearing unearthly screeches during a camp-out in Stokes State Forest four years ago.
"It was around 2 a.m. and one of the girls was having an asthma attack," says Carlson, 45, of Washington Township, whose husband writes a blog called the Paranomalist. "I had to go outside and run to the nurse’s station. When I finally got to the nurse’s station, there was a state trooper along with a park ranger.
"I asked about the sound, and they told me it was Bigfoot," Carlson says, with a shudder rather than a smile.

So have you seen or heard Big Red Eye? If so please share your story. If not do you believe such a beast could remain undetected this long? Either way read this most fascinating article by Lisa Rose of The Star-Ledger.