Granny's $100 ticket - for throwing out newspaper

New York Post ^ | 12/8/10 | Jessica Simeone

[Nachum]

What a bunch of garbage! An elderly Manhattan woman living on Social Security was slapped with a $100 ticket -- just for throwing away a newspaper in a city trash can. Delia Gluckin, 80, tossed the paper in a bin right outside her Inwood apartment building Saturday morning, only to be ambushed by an overzealous Department of Sanitation agent wielding a handheld computertized ticket book. "I was walking to take the subway downtown and dropped it in a trash can, and this lady in a blue uniform ran up to me," Gluckin told The Post.

[Hatteras]

"improper refuse"

Musta been the New York Times...

[MEGoody]

Read the article. She did look.

I did read the article. I was responding to the x-ray vision comment. One doesn't NEED x-ray vision if one simply looks in the bag.

This officer is an idiot, and the old lady should prevail. Then the officer should have to pay the lady back for any expenses she incurred while fighting this, i.e. subway fares.

[Wuli]

“The city will not do this because every building is required to have a recycling area inside. On the appropriate day, the landlord takes the recyclables and places it curb side for pick up. Granny simply did not throw her stuff in the appropriate bin. Her newspaper should not have been together with regular household trash.”

First: It is not clear that Granny was not coming from her residence.

Second: The city does have public, sidewalk, paper recycling bins, which was approved to be distributed as widely as public “trash” bins, so that newspapers in particular would not be discarded in “trash” bins. But, they have never been as widely distributed as everyone was told they would be.

Third: She was not cited because of the newspaper, anyway.

Fourth: News update, as of this mornings news: “Granny” may in fact have taken a household bag of trash with her, when she went out, containing items like a used “olive oil bottle”, and other items, before she acquired her newspaper, read it and included it her bag of trash. If this mornings news is correct, “Granny” may in fact have been doing what is not necessary and is illegal - taking her household trash and putting it in a sidewalk, public trash can.