Watch Where You Sit [NYC Man Arrested for sitting on milk crate]

1010 WINS ^ | May 20, 2003 | 1010 WINS

[LurkedLongEnough]

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) It appears the New York City budget crunch has police writing tickets for things that are moving and not moving. A Bronx man tells the Daily News he was given a ticket for sitting on a milk crate outside the hair salon where he works on the Grand Councourse.

The ticket says "unauthorized use of a milk crate." The fine was not immediately known. But 19-year-old Jesse Taveras told the News he was flabbergasted when the police officer handed him the ticket Sunday afternoon. Taveras says the cop told him to "Blame Bloomberg." Owning a stolen milk crate can cost a 100 dollar fine. But those at the hair salon say the milk crate has been there for years.

A few days ago the Police Benevolent Association charged that street cops were being pressured to meet a quota in writing tickets to collect money for the city. The Bloomberg administration strongly denied those claims.

[justshutupandtakeit]

1010 Wins?

[Sunshine Sister]

Alligations strongly denied by Bloomburg.....yeah yeah blah blah blah.

[Mears]

Well there goes my morning!

I have two milk crates in my basement storing various things and now I'm a law breaker. I don't live in New York but who knows,it may be illegal in Mass. also.

Bloomberg is an idiot and I hope New Yorkers dump him the next time around. Let him go back to his billions and leave the little guys alone.

[mountaineer]

First, Bloomburg came for the smokers, then the milk crate sitters ...

[henderson field]

"Crimes Against the State." Bloomberg needs a swastika arm-band.

[from occupied ga]

Also posted here

[EggsAckley]

*GASP* I have several milk cartons AND.........a Post Office carry out box! I'm doomed!

[SAJ]

The key question, of course, is 'how can one be fined for owning a stolen milk crate?'

If one has stolen a milk crate, one is not the owner but merely the possessor, and such a fine would be false-to-fact. Contrarily, if one owns a milk crate and it is subsequently stolen, such a fine would constitute punishing the victim.

Ah, well, I suppose that all things are possible with Josef Vissarionovich Bloomberg. And/or illiterate 'reporters'.

[LurkedLongEnough]

W-I-N-S 1010AM radio, NYPD's choice radio station (has a web site too).

[MD_Willington_1976]

Watch out for the the cowprint helo outside with no markings and the swat guys wearing cowprint BDU's

[finnman69]

1010 WINS radio. Its a call sign of the local 24hour news channel here in NYC.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Holsteins !

[jrawk]

[occupied-ga posted: Also posted here ]

Ahhhh son, that will be a $350 fine.

Posting an already posted story.

Pay up at City Hall.

Keep Moving!

Not'ing to see here!

[LurkedLongEnough]

Oops, sorry.

Bloomberg probably threatened 1010 WINS with arrest if they didn't change the title on their version of this story.

[babylonian]

Hey, New York, you get more of what you put up with.

[nutmeg]

ping!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The details in this story are sparse to say the least. I'll withhold judgement until more is provided.

[TheBigB]

The Department of Homeland Security is on the job...

[justshutupandtakeit]

Thanks for the info.