Are Middlesex Countys Streets really Safe Anymore?
Another local Metuchen, NJ 08840 newspaper reported an attempted kidnapping of a 45 year woman at an office building on Durham Avenue in Metuchen, NJ. The headline of this local newspaper read “Metuchen police charge man with attempted kidnapping” If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll remember that since last October , I blogged about two other incidents one in Metuchen where teenagers and young men from Brooklyn were involved and one in nearby Edison where a young child walking ahead of her parent was approached by a man in a van. I remember those “man in vans” on the streets of Brooklyn and running passed them as fast as possible to catch up to a crowd of kids walking together. Even t hen we knew there was safety in numbers. But that was in the 1960s, and while the exposure was psychological harmful – today’s “man in van” seem to have less fear and more bravado as they approach and snatch young children on the streets. We do not live in Oz anymore, the once bucolic town of Metuche
