New city ordinance: Construction workers can be assaulted for littering

Johnny just saw the most disgusting thing. Walking on 2nd St. near Washington he watched with his very own eyes as a construction worker just threw trash on the ground and acted like nothing happened.

Only it had and Johnny saw it. He confronted the worker and his friend who dropped the trash. They acted like "Why are you busting our balls, it's only trash on the ground." Johnny kept after the two waiting for food truck fare. He kept after them asking why, since they don't live in the neighborhood they think it's OK to simply toss your trash on the ground when you're done with it. Pick it up Johnny told them. They balked at first until Johnny told them it would be a very bad idea job-wise as their supervisor would hear about it AND it would be very bad for the guy physically if he didn't pick it up and kept running his mouth (of course under his breath).

So, if you don't live here and you want to throw your trash out, do what local residents do and try finding a trash bin, asshats. Don't ever think for a second it's OK to simply toss your mess anywhere in Jersey City if Johnny's watching. You will be confronted and if you wanna keep running your construction worker mouth you can of course find one of the many excellent dentists in Jersey City to help you regain that winning smile even with your lost teeth.

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The construction workers leave at the end of each day but the trash remains

Yesterday we touched on why it took eleven construction workers to watch concrete get poured through a small tube. Today we'll discuss what they're doing when they're not standing around; They're littering. And littering. And littering. Why should they care? They don't ever live in the areas they come to work in. The cars parked haphazardly all around the neighborhood (that you'd be ticketed or towed for) tell you they commute in. They eat and drink on the job like so many Americans do. Can't work on an empty stomach. That being said imagine for one minute if you were allowed to toss your trash around your office or leave your garbage in your front yard like these pigs (no other word for it folks) do on a daily basis. Prescription pill bottles being tossed on the ground, beer bottles (whoooo boy that's one safe workplace when you start seeing the prescription pill and beer bottles lying around), food containers, Red Bull cans, Gatorade bottles etc etc etc. The residents of Jersey City really want to thank you assholes for your cavalier attitudes about where you go to work. Does it ever dawn on you workers that people live around where you're building more places for people to live? Johnny knows a rebranded PADNA, (Powerhouse Arts District Neighborhood Assn.), where these pictures were taken, has reached out to Councilwoman Candice Osborne. Shortly thereafter trash barrels appeared at construction sites. Fat lot of help that did as you can see in the pictures below.

Do we not fine construction companies for this kind of shit? Is the Jersey City council powerless to hold these clowns to SOME kind of standard? Is there not some kind of code enforcement officer Jersey City employs? Are they asleep at the wheel on this? It would appear the citizens in these construction-happy neighborhoods don't only have to put up with noise and closed roads from time to time but are also having to deal with construction worker garbage on a daily basis.

Boo on this to the lazy construction workers who can't put trash in a can or don't seem to try, and Boo on this to city officials who never seem to deal with an issue on anything more than a glossed-over way when it comes to construction crews.