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.
A website from which I posted a picture of Homer alias Forrest Gump. After a few moments it changed to the current picture to remind me, that I shall not steal pictures from uloc. :-) A minor "crime", I´d say.
Uh, you're new to planet Earth, aren't you?
OK, OK, can you blame me for hoping that the cops weren't that stupid and tried to rationalize it?
I don't understand this "bandwidth" business. A picture posted elsewhere will cause people to come to their website. . . and that's what they WANT, isn't it? Especially if they cleverly put their website name on the picture somewhere.
(You can copy and save it to photobucket or some such place if it's worth the trouble.)
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