Sorry, Wrong Number

Here at the Badge Company of New Jersey we have received a few phone calls recently, where the caller asks, "Is this Fed Ex?"

Um, no.

So we decided to see why this was happening. As it turns out, the toll-free number for Fed Ex is 1-800-GoFedEx, which translates into 1-800-463-3339.

Our toll-free number is 1-800-469-9333.

There has to be a fair amount of transposing of digits to get from the Fed Ex number to our number, but it happens.

We wonder how many calls Fed Ex gets where the caller asks, "Is this the Badge Company?"

You can always call our regular line, 1-908-735-7700. But sometimes those callers ask, "Is this Clinton Honda?" The Honda dealer’s number differs by one digit.

Maybe if you want to ship your Honda by Fed Ex we can help you, but otherwise we’ll stick to badges.

Great Headline

From recent local news:

Man Arrested after Allegedly Snorting Cocaine While Leaning on an Unmarked Police Car

Not What You Are Expecting

A great, funny, and sobering 30-seconds sponsored by automaker BMW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQW-EBtUNCY

Carnage

First responders are witness to a wide variety of events, often tragic, sometimes comical, and at times just disappointing.

This Spring, a fellow in Massachusetts decided to take his restored 1938 Plymouth our for a drive. On Interstate I-195 east of New Bedford and, somewhat ironically, less than 40 miles from the historic Massachusetts town of Plymouth, a mechanical failure caused the gas tank to be punctured.

The three photos below tell the story.

Jail Statistics

According to the American Jail Association (http://www.aja.org/), the inmate population in U.S. jails has declined for the second consecutive year. The stat announced by the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics revealed that the overall jail population declined by 2.4 percent in the 12 months ending June 30, 2010, dropping from 767,434 to 748,728.

Not Exactly a Clean Getaway

In a southern New Jersey town, police officers responded to a store on a report of a shoplifter. A description of the suspect and his apparel was given, and not long afterward an officer detained a person wearing the described clothes, walking not far from the store.

The officer found that the suspect was carrying two 100-ounce bottles of laundry detergent in a bag from a different store, although the suspect had no receipt for their purchase.

Upon being arrested the suspect said that in retrospect he should have hidden in the woods for twenty minutes because he saw all of the police cars in the area.

A store employee confirmed that the suspect was the shoplifter. The employee said she had seen him come into the store, empty handed, and walk up an aisle. He came back down the aisle, sweatshirt bulging with something, and walked out of the store.

She also said that she had been wondering who had been stealing all of the Tide.

The Hoboken 500

As the Memorial Day holiday approaches, a news item indicates that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway encompasses more more area than Hoboken, and that it has 60 percent more full-time employees than does Hoboken.

What caused Hoboken to be selected as the city to which the Speedway was to be compared is not known to us, but this same news items tells us that come race day this Sunday the Speedway will have about seven times the number of “residents” than Hoboken.

Let's hope that traffic moves more sedately in Hoboken this weekend than it does on the iconic Speedway.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!