BENNIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unbelievable and it is only Memorial Day its going to be a long summer.

I guess Seaside needs to institute sobriety checks outside boardwalk pubs, and shut down any that let customers get loaded. Either that or personality checks on men from 18 to 38... Put 'em on the anger management ride!

You couldn't pay mto live i.e enough to go near Seaside. I feel sorry for the local homeowners who live there all year round & pay taxes. Why are people bringing knives to the boardwalk anyway unless they're looking for a fight? Bennies go home & stay home.

Martin don't blame the bars and the alcohol, blame the people who can't act like civilized humans.

Blame the drugs and the doctors who write those prescriptions!! Isn't Section 8 housing available in the off season? Nice neighborhood..., I'll bet they don't pay taxes! Martin has a point. The Hood is like inner-city in the summer. I wouldn't want to vacation there.

I heard that the boardwalk was packed with "Canadians" all weekend. They turn it in to their own lakewood or trenton for the weekend.

There's not enough security. Private security companies can supply protection with armed security guards. New rules about loitering need to be put in place. Arrests for groups that are hanging out and blocking the boardwalk for families or looking threatening to families are scaring away business. People don't want to bring their children to a place that allows the boardwalk to be nothing but a hangout for youths that have nothing better to do than interfere with law abiding citizens and start trouble. The taverns located on the boardwalk also should have security. The State Alcoholic Beverage Control should spot check these bars for serving minors liquor and whether they are feeding booze to people beyond their capacity and that's what starts a lot of fights, the booze and beer muscles. Check with GAC Investigations, LLC for supplying security guards to what seems to be starting as a long, long, hot and troublesome season on the boardwalk.

Exactly, drugs, alcohol, section 8, you name it; Seaside is the winter haven for all this trash. Come summer crazy vacation people and the winter trash.....you have one town, lets just say I would never stay there.....

This is what happens when you let MTV come to your area ... Seaside used to be for families well thanks to the Mayor and anyone else that were so money hungry and letting MTV film here it's now SLEEZ-SIDE..

It scares me to see that the bars are located so close to the children's pier.

It's turning into Asbury Park!

LOL Tracy, Seaside was scummy for years before MTV came on the scene.

This is why our kids aren't allowed to go there.

Just sad. Plain and simple. St*pidity at its best.

As a matter of fact Pickles I know a few Seaside cops and they said it sure as hell didn't help!!
A lot of them were against the filming ...

I have to agree with Tracy. Seaside used to be sleazy, then it was cleaned up when the Storino's came to town and bought the waterpark and pier. I believe it has been transformed again by MTV glorifying the dregs of society that are now back here again. I have never seen some many people acting like idiots. How can I be upset and say something to someone for cursing when they're waiting in line swearing in front of their own children, they just don't get it anyway. It's sad that you need a license to fish but there's no qualification for being a parent. I'm a local and can't wait for another 71 days until they're all gone again. It's unfortunate that I can't enjoy the rides and boardwalk with my 9 year old daughter because of these inhumane people that want to treat life like it was a reality show. You reap what you sow and the stabbings will continue because that is what the township has bred.

I agree with that. I just know I stopped going a long time ago for these reasons. Now it (mtv) has just brought a larger crew which of course means more drunks, more drugs, more fights. I do have to note the cops were amazing this weekend!

I am a former Bennie....now a local and I say the same Bennies go home!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with the other posta...Seaside was a hole in the ground years ago.

You are all correct with MTV bringing more of the bad crowd to Seaside. Friends do say it has become worse since MTV. Reading the other posts, I can understand how everyone feels during this time of year.
I am a former NY'er and do not miss the attitude and rudeness. I can pick them out in a crowd instantly
just by their lack of manners.

Thanks everyone for a great post! Sad for us but true!! Have a great week all!

Hey, WHAT do you expect when Snooki Polizzi (did I spell that right?), of "Jersey Shore" infamy, IS the unofficial Mayor of Seaside Heights, NJ? The REAL Italians, over in Florence, Italy, are now dealing with them. TRASH, TRASH, TRASH, TRASH, TRASH!!! Yeah, I know, I've lived in Ocean County since 1971, and Seaside Heights was ALWAYS the armpit of the county. Too many bars, and too many inebriated, trashy people. NOT a family resort (like Point Pleasant Beach is) by ANY stretch of the imagination. Hey, THIS is WHAT the town father's want! I visited Seaside Heights, for the last time, last year, when I had to go to the Army & Navy store, there. Good Riddance!!!

Unfortunately, it's a fact of life that there are always going to be some "rotten apples" in every barrel! Regardless of how much security & policing you have, problems like fights, stabbings etc. are bound to happen whenever you have 200,000 or more people visiting in an area the size of Seaside Heights within a single weekend, and it doesn't matter what town, city, or state that you are in either!

That’s going to happen in Seaside, especially when MTV makes it out to be cool if you fight on the board walk! If you can’t handle the crap that goes along with dealing with the summer tourists (Bennies) then you should be living near a town like seaside. The real locals know how to avoid the crap and enjoy the summertime because we know the shore the best. Last thing we need is more restrictions, look at seaside park in was a ghost town this weekend, you know they will be missing the extra money flow instead they consistently find new ways to financially rape the locals. Parking meters on 12th ave, Really!

Snookie did her "doody" here and she will move on....leaving the locals to clean up her sh__! She and all of MTV stars are TRASH . Good article and I hope someone is noticing it that can help clean up the scum left behind.

And they accuse the Seaside cops of being too" brutal" with the scumbags they arrest. What a tough job for police today. Actually, a few good beatings would be in order and the lowlifes would not come back

As having been a resident in the area for quite some time, Seaside use to be a lovely family town. It has become soiled for many many years even before MTV. Maybe the MTV made it worse but it is really sad. They have put some nice places on the Boulevard. It looked like they were trying to clean it up. Maybe it will have to become like Asbury Park before it starts to get rebuilt like A.P. is now. Very sad. We try and bring the kids on the rides in the daytime but occassionally like to do the fireworks night. We might have to stick to the daytime rides. That show was a real disgrace to our area. (Jersey Shore). Too bad, how sad.

How many days till Labor Day?

this is what gos on when pepole dont know how to act. take an animal from the jungle and what do you think is going to happen. soom of the pepole are out thier to have a good time like i did at that age but others have to (hold it down, or have to represent or just be your normal jerc offs) if thats how you are going ti act do evryone a favor and just stay home and F up your town. also Seaside needs to have more cops not rent a cops who carry a bottel of mace besides half the time these rent a cops are flerting with all the titybopers insted of looking out for animals looking to statr problems.

I dont know if more cops would benefit the heights, maybe just more enforcement of teh current laws would help. and make it more tough for younger people to stay in seaside.

Idk, how about Seaside require you to be 21 with a valid credit card to get a hotel room....AC rules.....

That would be a step in the right direction, how many kids 21 and under were causing trouble this weekend, over dosing, drunk in public etc. I think that restriction alone would help to reduce the younger crowd and the violence that it brings to seaside. I think they should also have a DUI checks upon exiting clubs and bars when it might warrant it.

How busy was triboro this weekend dealing with alcohol and drug related calls, and how many calls from that number were under age etc. I truly believe its time for seaside to step up and require more to spend a whole weekend in seaside.

Seaside Heights wasn't always a "bar town" . I recall fondly growing up in the 70's. Going on family vacations with my parents and siblings for two weeks and always having a great time. Me and my dad flying kites at sunset without hearing any foul language or witnessing anyone falling over drunk. Being able to walk up and down the boulevard when there were "five and dime" stores on each corner not bars with dregs of society I remember my older brothers going to the only disco in town, and having a strict curfew. I remember Paluso's and a stand-alone bakery. My greatest memories of childhood are summers at the Jersey Shore. If I'm correct, around 1979 it started to "go downhill" (the year my parents decided to buy the shore house). It really saddens me that those great memories are now just that, memories. It's a shame that our kids can't experience "the good old days" Seaside Heights is a shell of what it used to be.

I lived there and ran for office. after being totally disgusted with the place I decided to move from the Jersey Shore to Carolina Shores. Love It!!!

good move, i lived in the southern Carolina shores, and its a billion times better then the jersey shore.

Also, If you actually knew your history of the area, then you would know it wasnt always a bar town. Know the history of where you live!

After my walk down memory lane, I was thinking, why did it change. SSH offered a different product back then. Good clean fun. Like I said above, two bars. One was the Blue Grotto and everyone knew to "stay the heck out of there". This generation looks for trouble. There wasn't any section 8 housing. No one lived in SSH unless they were a tax-paying, homeowning resident. Unless SSH starts to offer a different "product" their target demographic (intentional or not) will always be trouble making, trash. I assume such establishments boost the SSH's economy more than family restaurants/entertainment would. Unless they have a change of heart, their image will remain the same.

remove God from schools and society and this will always be the results. no morals, no values,,its sad but just that simple.

With the discussion moving about the Seaside of today versus three, ten, thirty years ago — here is a recent post showing some promotional videos from the 1970s and 1960s. http://tomsriver.patch.com/articles/check-out-these-vintage-seaside-heights-tourism-videos

Lets be clear here, its Seaside Heights that is such a hole. Im from South Jersey all my life and I try to avoid it like the plague, this is no surprize, its been a dump forever (before MTV and Snooki). But lets not confuse Seaside Park in the mix. My Family has spent many a summer at Seaside Park (south Seaside PArk I should say) Its a beautiful, pieceful family town!

I really wanted to take a walk on the boardwalk tonight with my 4 month old son to show him the lights and breathe in the ocean. After reading that, not so much. Sad and weird that I don't feel safe to walk the boards like I have my entire 27 years of life.

Oh... And how about having less police officers patrolling meters and get them on the boardwalk to be extra eyes and ears.

I'm a ling time Seaside Heights and Seaside Park Guy, The Police do a very good job being proactive and dispersing large groups. You can't police against an angry man with a knife...

My family feels very safe in SSHTs and the Park.

Guy Madsen

I live in Toms River and I took my 3 year old neice to the boardwalk on Sat. to go on some rides. Let me tell you something............................PURE TRASH! Frightening! I know that since I was a tennager some 25 years ago...that there was trouble up there, but NOTHING compared to what is going on now. The sights alone were disgusting. Beleive me...I am not a prude by any means, but it was almost embaraasing to admit that I live on the Jersey Shore. The outfits, mouths, and antics were truly an embarassment. I will stick to going to Pt. PLeasant. I am sure they have their share of undesirables...but I don't thik it can come close to what I saw Sat. SAD!

Seaside has a very serious gang problem. I bet we'll be reading soon that that is at the root here. It's been a problem for a long time. As far as MTV, come on... We all went out to Seaside and partied on the weekends back in our 20's. This is a whole different thing altogether.

People complain about the BENNYs and the Guidos, but the gang bangers are the real problem. Everyone involved here was from the urban cesspools of NJ. Until the gang are delt with, it's only going to get worse.

@no name, please clarify what you meant when you said you wouldnt call south seaside park pieceful (no boardwalk, no "clubs" no nightlife to speak of. Just families enjoying the peice. I think you may have the Heights and South Seaside park confused.

You can blame COAH and their ridiculous regulations for this. Now instead of keeping all the scum in the burned out cities, where they belong, they are spread out all over the state to prey upon the populous.

In 30 yrs of going to seaside have NEVER seen anything like this past weekend? Yes it was a family town untill about 10 when families left and the bar clubbers came in. Just the sheer mass of people was unbelievable and yes Jersey Shore Show has DEFINATELY taken a small problem glorified it with their digusting behavior now ALL kids from 3 states over want to come here and do the same thing?But you know what the seaside owners brought them here now I say to families lets take our dollars somewhere else and let them deal with gangs of unruly and I mean unruly drunks literallyhanging from the balconies Their greed will come back to haunt them Myself and lots of other families have had it with dropping our money there

BENNYS GO THE HOME is right.... we were fine without all of you. They have taken a cool place and turned it into scumtown.... this is for families, and couples, and"decent" kids having a good time, that are not dressed up like hookers and scum bags.. nice, and busing them in like a bunch of animals and dropping them off on our Boardwalk. Stay away!!!! Keep your trash mouths and gang mentality in your own cities and towns...better yet...stay on the corner you came from :) no wait......move to another State or go back to NY...that works...ut oh..did I say that? :) I feel better now.....

all idiots were from Trenton area.....yeah....stay home. Get out, get lost. You are not welcome here.....gooooo.....idiots....

I can remember going to SSH on a Saturday nite in my teenage years( 70's) and it was just OK still sites to see and gangs still walked the boards. People were talking about the sites back then. MTV did not start the down spiral of SSH. It certainly didn't help either. The ruination started when parents STOPPED doing their JOB! My kids are in their early 30's now and when they were teens they were NOT allowed to go to SSH unless we accompanied them. Its a disgrace to see the way these 10-12-13 yr old girls parade themselves up and down the boardwalk. Not to mention the foul mouths. WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS? AT THE BARS ? Part of the problem is that the town has allowed more and more bars to open ON the boardwalk, giving easy access to under agers. I thought that only so many liquor licenses were allow per town. SSH has exceeded their quota, I think. Complain about the Bennies all you want but you have to remember who brings in the revenue. Not saying its right, but its a reality... they spend money there and the town needs them to! Comes down to the almighty dollar, again !

i really dont like the "bennys go home" phrase.. jokes r fine, but that is our economy... what we do need to honestly say loud and proud is SCUMBAGS GO HOME! n e one who would use a knife to hurt another fellow human being is a SCUMBAG. its sad, i've dated a girl who was not from nj, she thought seaside would be a destination for us HA!! need more POLICE, or Private Security...Need being the key word there brother!

Plus all the people who own businesses over there are lounging in their mulit-milly dollar pads laughing @ this article..and i'm happy 4 them.. truth is we are not going to End this mess which basically consists of ** LOTS OF SCUMBAGS IN ONE PLACE ** so lets just focus on doing MORE to Serve and Protect US

what a shame I have such nice memories of seaside and family summers, walking on the boardwalk when it was safe. things have changed so drastically and never go there now until summer is over and all the rowdy,, looking for trouble people are gone. what happened to have let this place literally go to hell? jp

TAKE NOTICE 71 COMMENTS UP TO JUNE 1 st What did we expect for july 4 th . 62 arrested for fighting. well we got what we expected .. You have to be a fool to go to seaside and expect it to be a fun place .I think great adventure will be next just give it time ???

MTV was here in the 90's also and I don't think it brought in the problems that it has this time around. My younger brother went got picked for the show and had lots of fun.