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Woman Ticketed For Sitting On Park Bench Without Kids
WNBC Television ^ | 9/27/2005 | Puppage

Posted on 09/27/2005 5:07:41 AM PDT by Puppage

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.

Sandra Catena, 47, said she didn't see the sign when she sat down to wait for an arts festival to start.

Two police officers asked her if she was with a child. When she said no, they gave her a ticket that could bring a $1,000 fine and 90 days in jail.

The city parks department said 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 newspaper that ticketing a woman in the park in the middle of the day is not the way you want to enforce the rule.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: New York
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To: wtc911
This code helps protect the children..

Bologna!

It's nothing more than a feeeeeel good law.

41 posted on 09/27/2005 7:10:28 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Most pedophiles are men.


42 posted on 09/27/2005 7:35:06 AM PDT by stinkerpot65
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To: stinkerpot65

As a mother of many small children, I appreciate this rule.

It's tiresome to get the kids dressed, snacks packed, diaper bag packed, stroller has a bad wheel and then you get to the park only to find the benches staked out by drunks and homeless and questionable men too eager to speak to your children.

The only thing worse is career feminists power walking in their nikes giving you that look that you know means they are thinking "dirty breeder" as they pass you.

I'd love to have the cops clear the park for my and other SAHM's exclusive use!


43 posted on 09/27/2005 8:15:29 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Crush jihadists, drive collaborators before you, hear the lamentations of their media. Allahu FUBAR!)
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To: Puppage
Two police officers asked her if she was with a child. She should have answered, "Yes, I am with child."
44 posted on 09/27/2005 8:16:05 AM PDT by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
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To: Valpal1

No adult male without a child in tow has any business hanging around a playground.


45 posted on 09/27/2005 1:03:09 PM PDT by stinkerpot65
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To: stinkerpot65
No adult male without a child in tow has any business hanging around a playground.

And further more no adult male with out any children should pay any taxes that go to pay for playgrounds.

46 posted on 09/27/2005 3:45:33 PM PDT by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: Puppage
adults are prohibited unless they are accompanied by a child.

Disneyland has that same sign on the "Haunted Mansion" ride, but I don't think any non-accompanied adults have been turned away.

47 posted on 09/27/2005 3:49:43 PM PDT by Alouette (Militant Neocon Pundit)
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To: PeteB570
Now if it had been a 47 year old guy then what? Hmmm?
48 posted on 09/27/2005 3:52:09 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Puppage

If you'd lock up pedophiles for life and/or banished them, you wouldn't have to worry about them ever again, now would you?


49 posted on 09/27/2005 3:53:44 PM PDT by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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To: Valpal1
"I'd love to have the cops clear the park for my and other SAHM's exclusive use!"

Nothing incredibly selfish about that, honey!

50 posted on 09/27/2005 6:34:42 PM PDT by D.P.Roberts
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To: D.P.Roberts

I'll admit to it sounding selfish. But that's better than leaving the park to the exclusive use of junkies, whores and perverts, no?

Besides which, I happen to be doing Western Civilization a huge favor, breeding and rearing more than the national average of rational and right thinking children, when I could be out denigrating and demonizing males with the NAGS.

So who deserves the use of the park more, me and my viking kitty cubs or the flotsam and jetsam of marxist social engineering?

Whatever happened to the social deference and honor paid to the gentle art of homemaking and motherhood? Sigh! Even on FR we don't get no respect.


51 posted on 09/27/2005 6:55:36 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Crush jihadists, drive collaborators before you, hear the lamentations of their media. Allahu FUBAR!)
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To: Michael81Dus
I will not steal from ULOC?

Wer ist denn ULOC?

52 posted on 09/27/2005 6:59:50 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: wolfcreek

Remember, in liberal la, la land it is not a baby until it is born.


53 posted on 09/27/2005 7:03:07 PM PDT by Ez2BRepub
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To: monday

I'm always sarcastic and assume nothing. There is always more to any story.

There are plenty of nitwit cops out there but this is not an example. This 'woman' was more likely a minority, homeless, on crack and a true purveyor of the liberal welfare entitlement mentality.

The cops had to do something.

But that is not reported in the MSM.

Just a guess.


54 posted on 09/27/2005 7:08:47 PM PDT by quantim (Detroit is the New Orleans of the North as an example of a failed welfare state.)
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To: cynicom

Police and common sense does not fit in the same sentence...
Police see everyone as a criminal, except themselves of course.""

Not sure the cops are the culprits here.
I see the parks committees as being over the top with this kind of rule. I never had any kids. I pay for those parks, also. I would be making a large scene in court if they arrested me and tried to fine me $1000.
They may be trying to weed out the pedophiles, but this is a railroading, IMO.


55 posted on 09/27/2005 7:30:29 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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To: Alouette

adults are prohibited unless they are accompanied by a child.
Disneyland has that same sign on the "Haunted Mansion" ride, but I don't think any non-accompanied adults have been turned away.""

SINCE WHEN??? I have been to Disneyland in Calif over 35 times, and it was almost always with adults only. I haven't been in over 10 years now, but if they actually have that sign up, I would demand my money back and never go there again. I always found the attactions at Disneyland to be very interesting in general, and the Haunted Mansion was a particular favorite.


56 posted on 09/27/2005 7:34:58 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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To: Alouette

adults are prohibited unless they are accompanied by a child.
Disneyland has that same sign on the "Haunted Mansion" ride, but I don't think any non-accompanied adults have been turned away.""

SINCE WHEN??? I have been to Disneyland in Calif over 35 times, and it was almost always with adults only. I haven't been in over 10 years now, but if they actually have that sign up, I would demand my money back and never go there again. I always found the attactions at Disneyland to be very interesting in general, and the Haunted Mansion was a particular favorite.


57 posted on 09/27/2005 7:36:31 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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To: Hodar
So, one would ask 'why' such a law exists. Consider, how else can one prevent a 'pervert' from sitting in the park and stalking a child while the parent is distracted? Perhaps the park itself is set aside as a refuge for children, a small section of land in a very large section of town; designed for children. How do you prevent thugs, bullies and muggers from preying on women and children? These are two reasons why (perhaps) such a law and fine are imposed. Either the law is enforced, or it is not. If it is disregarded for women, then it can not be enforced for men; at which time the entire purpose of the law is removed.

Yet the journalist's angle is to make all parks safe for pedophiles.

58 posted on 09/27/2005 7:40:52 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: ridesthemiles
SINCE WHEN??? I have been to Disneyland in Calif over 35 times

The last time I went was about 10 years ago. I remember the sign in front of the "Haunted Mansion" attraction "no adults unless accompanied by a child under 10 -- grownups can get too scared" -- of course it's a spoof and not meant to be enforced.

59 posted on 09/27/2005 8:17:50 PM PDT by Alouette (Militant Neocon Pundit)
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To: quantim

:sigh:


60 posted on 09/27/2005 8:19:52 PM PDT by cyborg (Thank you dear Lord for my new job, breath in my lungs and my future husband petronski.)
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