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6A COURIER-POST, Saturday, March 25, 2000 fV JERSEY pd'qo raited Pa. judge sues Atlantic City over razed home Siracusa says the city isn't at month delay," Siracusa said. By JOHN CURRAN Associated Press MS. So the city's demolition order was carried out on Aug. 23.

Tynes' lawyer, Thomas John Forkin, said he negotiated with city officials for months in hopes of reaching a settlement to replace the house. Unable to settle, he filed suit Wednesday seeking $101,000 for the home and $100,000 in punitive fault. In any event, Siracusa says, the city should not be held liable for punitive damages. "It's unfortunate. It's not our intent to recklessly demolish people's homes.

If we can come to an amicable resolution, we certainly will. But there's no basis for punitive damages. Nothing was intentional," Siracusa said. Just for ordering 3 or more of our best welded solid vinyl Replacement windows custom made by Alcoa. li i (Reg.

$239. Installed) FOREIGN DOMESTIC I A 1 I 1 I MM I 111 I 10 i i 4 ti a self. That night, she trekked to the Shore to see for herself. Sure enough, the house had been reduced to rubble. "It was terrible.

I was so upset," Tynes said. She didn't feel any better when she called city demolition officials. "Someone said they did me a favor (in razing the house). What arrogance," Tynes said. City officials said the house was infested with vermin, had a collapsed porch roof, rusted metal joints and was a prime candidate for demolition.

The city notified the previous owner that a hearing had been scheduled at which the demolition could be challenged, according to City Solicitor Mary Siracusa. But the previous owner apparently didn't tell Tynes and the demolition notice lagged behind when she bought the property several weeks later, Siracusa said. "You send out the (demolition) notice and you publish the notice, which we did. During that period of time, that's when it was transferred. We sent all the notices to the correct owner.

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Now replace it. "I'm not a hard person to get along with. They need to 'fess up and build, me a new house, or find one of equal value," she said Friday. The saga began in 1998, when Tynes, 56, bought the decrepit two-story at 110 N. Congress Ave.

for $20,800. She acknowledges it was no oceanfront mansion, but it had potential. She spent more than $4,000 on a new roof and planned other repairs to the three-bedroom, 2Vz-bathroom structure. Last Aug. 23, she got a call from a friend who lives down the street.

woman was hysterical, telling demolition crews were knocking the house down. Tynes believe her, so the woman iheld up her cordless telephone receiver so she could hear it for her- iLawmakers eye controls on extreme wrestling By RALPH SIEGEL Associated Press TRENTON Gov. Christie Whitman and legislative leaders from both sides of the aisle Friday promised a crackdown on so-called "extreme wrestling" entertainment events, which they denounced as dangerous and too gruesome for children. Now the legal grappling begins. It was Whitman herself who enacted a change in law in 1997 to deregulate so-called "pro wrestling" so that sponsors like the World Wrestling Federation would be willing to stage TV events at New Jersey facilities without regulation and taxes from the State Athletic Control Board.

Joining the governor at the bill signing ceremony was WWF star "The Undertaker." An unwanted byproduct, accord-jng to a recently published report, has been the emergence of extreme wrestling, where the flash and theatrics of WWF events are replaced by grim displays of mayhem and real bloodshed with weapons. Officials are afraid one of these events will end with a call for a real undertaker. I "Extreme wrestling is a grotesque 'and depraved activity," said Assemblyman Joseph Doria, D-Hudson, i'who, as mayor of Bayonne, found himself helpless to stop such events, Whitman, Doria and Senate President Donald DiFrancesco said they wanted to require regulation and taxation of these events, to give towns like Jlayonne the option to reject permits, and to bar children from attending. "Sitting them in a room where the tmain goal is to draw blood while fans yell encouragement is not the enter-rtainment nor the example that our 'children should be seeing," Whitman said. A draft of the legislation that will parse the difference between and "pro" wrestling was not available Friday.

"The legislative challenge here is to protect legitimate professional wrestling while giving the state and municipalities the legal means to control the violent sport of extreme wrestling," Doria said. Doria is leader of the Democratic minority in the Assembly, and he and DiFrancesco have forged an important bipartisan bridge in the Legislature on the issue. But the differences between the two entertainment events could become a delicate matter. If you slam a metal chair against somebody's face, you face 10 years in prison for aggravated assault unless you do it in front of a paying crowd. If you pretend to hit your foe and he spews fake blood, it's "pro" and it's legal.

If you actually hit your foe and the red spray from his face is real blood, it's "extreme" and it would be illegal. Rich Hering, WWF vice president for legal affairs, said he thinks state policy can be designed to treat "pro" and "extreme" wrestling differently. "They are absolutely distinctive." Jennifer Sarnelli, a researcher for the Assembly Democrats, said while "pro" wrestling may highlight fake violence with occasional accidents, "extreme" wrestling features deliberate injury. "Legally we can make a distinction between the two because one of them is a health and safety violation and one of them is not," Sarnelli said. "The legislation that we are working on is going to be a work in progress.

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