Posted on 09/27/2005 5:42:18 AM PDT by Calpernia
NEW YORK It's an only in New York story. A woman was given a ticket for sitting on a park bench because she doesn't have children.
The Rivington Playground on Manhattan's East Side has a small sign at the entrance that says adults are prohibited unless they are accompanied by a child. Forty-seven-year-old Sandra Catena says she didn't see the sign when she sat down to wait for an arts festival to start. Two New York City police officers asked her if she was with a child. When she said no, they gave her a ticket that could bring a one thousand dollar fine and 90 days in jail.
The city parks department says the rule is designed to keep pedophiles out of city parks, but a parks spokesman told the Daily News that the department hoped police would use some common sense when enforcing the rule.
The spokesman told the paper that ticketing a woman in the park in the middle of the day is not the way you want to enforce the rule.
Silly ping
Seems to me the NYC Police Dept. has hired two more complete a**wipes for Park Patrol! What dumba** bozos they must be to give a lady a ticket for sitting down because she did not see a sign that prohibits this. It's cops like this that give all of them a "black eye!", and they ought to be run off by the commish.
bump!
"The spokesman told the paper that ticketing a woman in the park in the middle of the day is not the way you want to enforce the rule."
Sounds like the rule needs to be clarified. In addition, if adults without children are not allowed to use this public resource, then can they be exempted from the taxes required to operate the resource?
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