Public transit riders might make an ideal test group. Submissive, eager for government hand-outs, willing to go along with the crowd, wherever it's going . .
Kewl, huh?
Posted on 12/15/2005 11:07:05 AM PST by logician2u
A man accused of selling a MARTA token to a passenger having trouble with a token machine must stand trial on the criminal charge.
Judge Stephanie Davis decided Tuesday that Donald Pirone's case should be bound over to state court for trial. Pirone could face a year in jail.
An officer spotted Pirone selling the token on Nov. 30 inside the West End subway station. Following a 1992 state law that prohibits passengers from selling tokens, the officer handcuffed Pirone and gave him a citation.
Pirone says he was trying to help a fellow passenger. He says he did not ask for money and that the passenger gave him $1.75 -- the price of a token -- out of generosity.
However, if the guy has a competent attorney, he might sue MARTA for civil damages.
If that went to trial, I can envision some very interesting testimony:
[Pirone's attorney]: Now, would you please give us a brief history of MARTA's issuing tokens as money substitutes for travel on its purported rapid-transit system?It could get hairy.[MARTA manager]: Uh, I would challenge that description of tokens as well as your using "purported" to characterize our rapid-transit system. I . .
[MARTA attorney, rising] OBJECTION, your honor. Witness is being asked to commit perjury.
Don't forget all the "New South" garbage and now using Hartsfields ICAO code as some kind of slogan. "The ATL"
Then let him stand trial, find him guilty, fine him $10 and walk. Then present to the legislature the bill for court time and cost, which is at least the cost of a traffic court appearence. For a damn $1.75 token. When Marta can't fix its broken machines.
LOL.
I'm curious if anyone knows if its safe to travel MARTA. I have to go to Atlanta next month on business and will likely use the train. I have never been on a subway in my life.:(
No, I am not.
Put your money in the machine which is set up to allow you to punch in your route and dispense a date/time stamped ticket for your ride that day.
For commuters, a card or some kind of RFID device (I do know that MARTA has been around for a while, but hey how about updating the system every now and then?) to validate their route and spit out a ticket for that day's ride.
Weeping willows are supposed to be planted next to the horse trough, or in that low damp spot in the back yard. That's what they're for, isn't it?
LOL..yea, they'll grow into his sink, toilet etc..AFTER they wrap around the septic lines and puncture them..
I forgot about the need for the city dwellers to have a flexible system to ride at random, but current technology could solve that one very easily, I'm sure.
"I'm curious if anyone knows if its safe to travel MARTA."
Well, I've used it and it seemed okay. But frankly I wouldn't want my wife or kids on it, especially after the sun goes down. The cops are more interested in arresting people for 'token' violations than anything else.
Sometimes that low damp spot in the backyard is your septic system. Nothing will ruin one like a weeping willow. But this guy has a big job with the Gubmint and is smarter than me.
Public transit riders might make an ideal test group. Submissive, eager for government hand-outs, willing to go along with the crowd, wherever it's going . .
Kewl, huh?
Lol!
You couldn't put a septic field there because it wouldn't pass the perc test. Water goes nowhere. Which is why I planted the 3 weeping willows . . . if you have a horse trough and the horses splash their water and trample up the mud, a few willows right behind the fence will work wonders (and eventually give Dobbin some shade.)
Thank heavens the county put the sewer out here!
We had a septic tank in our old house (IN the City of Atlanta - now we're in the county - go figure!) but I mapped the drainfield when they installed it and marked the edges. (I hate living in a house we didn't build, because I don't know exactly where all the wiring, plumbing, etc. is.)
LOL!!! Been there, seen the results, and it was planted in my neighbors neighbors yard, about 80' from his drain field. I never knew how far the roots on those things traveled until the county made him cut the tree down, I think the ordinance is around 120' here. I have a bunch down by the lake, but the beavers have done most of them in.
I don't see it at "selling" - I see it as "an exchange". Couldn't he use THAT for a defense??
Yes, that has happened here in the Sierras in CA. The people have moved up from the bay area and other cities and complain about the terrible life in the cities and then they try to force the same rules and BS life style on the people living here! Then they pass laws to limit home building so no one else can move in here and ruin it for them(after they have already ruined it for us long time residents) Arnold's new convservancy BS is part of this type of thinking.
Don't know, no one has quoted the law.
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