Rats Infest the Duval County Courthouse

Hmm. Maybe they are Shorestien's illigitimate offspring. There is a 100+ lb. rat sitting at the Mayors desk and plenty of them down at DCPS also. We all know where the rats are!!

One more reason the City needs to get off its duff and build a new courthouse.

LAD wrote:

One more reason the City needs to get off its duff and build a new courthouse.

I wouldn't put it past the current administration to have infested the current courthouse for just this purpose! "Oh we really need our Taj NOW"!The rats are taking over!LMAO!

Rats have been in that courthouse for years. Shorstein, Peyton, half the judges, etc.... Bait the traps with a new useage fee idea and we will catch the mayor. Bait another with anyone opposing Shorstein and we will catch him, and put a get out of jail free card on the last one and we should catch almost every judge trying to get it to give to the next unfortunate criminal in the city!!!

What a headline. Is that supposed to be "news". Wait until they move into the taxpayer abyss that shortsightedness by these "rats" has heaped upon the citizens of Jville. Where is the Pied Piper when you need him? Oh yeah, he got murdered on the northside. For disrepecting some fool with a gun. sleep tight.

Passing the time wrote:

<quoted text>I wouldn't put it past the current administration to have infested the current courthouse for just this purpose! "Oh we really need our Taj NOW"!The rats are taking over!LMAO!

I'm not so interested in the TAJ, I think they should have built a "judicial complex" on the Cecil Field property while they had the chance. Wow just think, room for all the division (circuit, family, criminal, etc) and free parking, easy access to the interstates. But I guess we couldn't ask all the big wigs to commute like us common folk.

They're just using this "Rat Problem" to sway public opion toward accepting city plans to finance and build a new courthouse. You can bet that soon there will be an announcement about a ballad for voters to decide this fall to finance a new courthouse. Why is the rat problem being addressed now? the timing is oh so coincidental.

Yes...and we can hear them in the courtroom walls in the juvenile courtroom adjacent to the holding tanks during court hearings.

Part of the problem is that the taxpayers think that we don't need a new courthouse because "only the criminals use it". Unfortunately, the citizens fail to realize that this is where they go to get their marriage licenses, to adopt children, get divorced, probate the estates of their loved ones and seek the civil relief they believe they justly deserve.

So unfortunately, many will hear this report and not care because "only the criminals" are there, without realizing that the majority of the courthouse serves many people who also deserve the services of our legal system without having committed a crime to get there.

Active attorney practitioner

Yeah, and there are roaches, rats, and mice in the majority of our PUBLIC schools! What's the point?

This still does not justify a new freakin' courthouse!

LAD wrote:

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I'm not so interested in the TAJ, I think they should have built a "judicial complex" on the Cecil Field property while they had the chance. Wow just think, room for all the division (circuit, family, criminal, etc) and free parking, easy access to the interstates. But I guess we couldn't ask all the big wigs to commute like us common folk.

Agreed.

they making a big deal with rats lol just go to the store buy sticky traps and rat posien problem solved! feed em to the thugs in jail taste like chicken! yummers lol

IT appears that we obviously have NO NEWS to put on the web page.Im sure some of the local movie theatres have some rats.Shall we put this one tomorrow nite if we dont have anything to talk about.
Wait, tomorrow will be sat night!Im sure as always there will be a shooting or homicide.It's usually the crazy people on the weekends making the news anyway.

man..i thought they were talking about the judges and the state attorney lawyers...

Rusty wrote:

Yes...and we can hear them in the courtroom walls in the juvenile courtroom adjacent to the holding tanks during court hearings.
Part of the problem is that the taxpayers think that we don't need a new courthouse because "only the criminals use it". Unfortunately, the citizens fail to realize that this is where they go to get their marriage licenses, to adopt children, get divorced, probate the estates of their loved ones and seek the civil relief they believe they justly deserve.
So unfortunately, many will hear this report and not care because "only the criminals" are there, without realizing that the majority of the courthouse serves many people who also deserve the services of our legal system without having committed a crime to get there.
Active attorney practitioner

most of us have no problem with a new court house...if they would stick the the plan that THE VOTERS APROVED...200million..not double that...thats most of ours issues with the new courthouse.

The sad thing is, people like John Peyton, who have prospered by turning their backs on the people who put him in office , are still crawling around sticking it to the people who need help the most in this city. Rats are better than that.

Just open up a chinese restaurant in the courthouse. All the rats cats and dogs will be gone.

negrodamus wrote:

Just open up a chinese restaurant in the courthouse. All the rats cats and dogs will be gone.

That is just too darn funny....mr garcia.

LAD wrote:

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I'm not so interested in the TAJ, I think they should have built a "judicial complex" on the Cecil Field property while they had the chance. Wow just think, room for all the division (circuit, family, criminal, etc) and free parking, easy access to the interstates. But I guess we couldn't ask all the big wigs to commute like us common folk.

Do you want the prisoners transported to and from the jail to the courthouse all the way across town? One accident and prisoners excape think of all the lawsuits. Unless you're a lawyer this isn't a good idea.

No problem...just get VP Dick Cheney to shoot 'em.

FromThe South2 wrote:

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Do you want the prisoners transported to and from the jail to the courthouse all the way across town? One accident and prisoners excape think of all the lawsuits. Unless you're a lawyer this isn't a good idea.

Well, a judicial complex would include a place for prisoners until they are sentenced or are awaiting hearings. They will be transported from the from the jail to LaVilla when the TAJ is built. They are being transported across the street now. Jacksonville is going to need (Needs) a large facility, build it all at once and save some money. I know it is a pipe dream to believe that something smart like that could have been done.