STATEY AT THE DOOR

 Yesterday, while stoking the woodstove, freezing to death in the shack, I saw that iconic blue and yellow of a NYS Police cruiser pull up in my driveway. Now, it’s not unusual to have Townie or even County cops to stop by for one reason or another, a Statey? Of course, I was torching some afternoon eye medicine.  As my blood pressure rose, I had to remind myself that I was completely legal. A lifetime of law breaking (that switched in the blink of an eye) is a tough pathology to ignore.

 

As the pot smoke billowed out the back door, I went outside to see what the trooper wanted. “Do you own that green synagogue on Glen Wild Rd.?” he asked. My mind raced. Fire? Zucker? Swastikas? “Yes.” I answered. “Are those your cameras?” Again, what cameras? Had old man Zucker rigged up some sort of surveillance system to catch me mowing MY lawn? “The silver camera facing the road.” The cop clarified. “Oh yeah, those are mine.” I explained that they were fake; installed years ago to deter the local youth from breaking in and stealing my sex dolls. He nodded. “I thought so.” He said with a smile. “Why?” I asked. “We had a fatality on Glen Wild road the other night.” Damn. Again.

 

From The Daily Voice: 

Driver Charged In Thompson Pedestrian Crash That Killed Liberty Woman: Police

A 29-year-old Liberty woman has died after being struck by a vehicle in Sullivan County, and the driver is now facing charges of vehicular manslaughter and driving while impaired, State Police report.

This is an all too frequent occurrence in the hood. A few years back this happened.

From The THRecord:

Former Fallsburg town justice sentenced for crash that killed two teenage boys 

MONTICELLO – A retired town justice who struck and killed two teenagers in Rock Hill has been sentenced after pleading guilty to reckless driving, Sullivan County District Attorney Meagan Galligan said. 

The two boys, Devin Zeininger, 16, and Justin Finkel, 14, were walking with a third teenager along a narrow-shouldered stretch of Glen Wild Road near Rock Hill on June 2, 2019, when former Fallsburg Town Justice Isaac “Yits” Kantrowitz struck them.  

Kantrowitz, now 89, was ultimately indicted by a Sullivan Grand Jury on a count of reckless driving, an unclassified misdemeanor under the Vehicle and Traffic Law, and two traffic infractions. He pleaded guilty to the charges on March 1.  

On Thursday, Galligan and the boys’ families asked Sullivan County state Supreme Court Justice Stephan Schick to impose the maximum jail sentence for the charge, 30 days. Schick, after considering the circumstances of the case and the defendant, did not impose jail. Instead, he sentenced Kantrowitz to the maximum fine, which is $300 for the reckless driving, plus $88 in surcharges. Kantrowitz’s license was revoked, and the sentence carries a condition that Kantrowitz never drive agai“The deaths of Devin and Justin will always be an unfathomable tragedy,” Galligan said via a news release on Thursday. “When I inherited this case, my Office made this investigation a priority and fulfilled our promise to these victims to make a full, fair and legal presentation of this case to a grand jury and to prosecute any crimes it charged. The defendant pled guilty to the top charge issued by the grand jury and his license is permanently revoked.”                                                                                                                     The old judge, who was given a ride home from the crime scene, was fined $388 in the death of these two boys. I’ve complained to the Town, County and State over the excessive speed limit on Glen Wild Rd. and got nowhere. The trucks from Newburgh Egg (among others) only want to get to the highway as quickly as possible. The same goes for the Hassidic road rally every Friday at dusk in the summer and high holy days. My advice to everyone is SLOW THE FUCK DOWN! And never walk on Glen Wild Rd. THE NY STATE POLICE CONCUR.