{"id":1292,"date":"2006-07-13T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/staten_island_beep_calls_for_singapore-style_corporal_punishment.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T00:04:13","slug":"staten_island_b_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/staten_island_b_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island Beep Calls For Singapore-Style Corporal Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro is mad as hell and he’s going to swat someone’s ass because of it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The borough president says he is appalled by graffiti found in two South Shore parks and believes the culprits should get more than a slap on the wrist — they should get a slap on the buttocks.<\/p>\n

“Frankly, it makes me feel that the law-enforcement approach in Singapore may be correct — graffiti vandals should be punished with caning, that’s what they deserve,” Borough President James Molinaro said yesterday.<\/p>\n

At Conference House Park, Tottenville, a stone bridge planned to be incorporated into a Bluebelt project was defaced with spray-painted tag names and vulgar etchings.<\/p>\n

Less than five miles away, at Bloomingdale Park in Prince’s Bay, handicapped-accessible playground equipment, which permits usage by children in wheelchairs, was covered in spray paint.<\/p>\n

The brand-new equipment, for which Molinaro’s office committed $300,000, is scheduled to be opened officially to the public tomorrow with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.<\/p>\n

Signs at Bloomingdale Park also were torn down and vandalized.<\/p>\n

The graffiti was discovered by Borough Hall staffers Tuesday morning, Molinaro said.<\/p>\n

“I am absolutely disgusted by this situation,” Molinaro added. “While I condemn all graffiti vandalism, to have vandals show blatant disregard for new parks equipment and infrastructure is appalling, especially after spending millions of dollars to complete” the projects.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro is mad as hell and he’s going to swat someone’s ass because of it: The borough president says he is appalled by graffiti found in two South Shore parks and believes the culprits should get more than a slap on the wrist — they should get a slap on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}