Pregnant teen's silly ticket tossed

Hunter P · 06-25-2003, 01:26 PM

I couldn't find the previous thread on this topic. Here is an article to give some closure to that pregnant teen who was issued a ticket for sitting on some subway stairs.

Yahoo News

Carl Johnson · 06-25-2003, 01:31 PM

It doesn't sound silly to me, the cop probably asked her to move from the stairwell and she responded by telling him to fuck off.

Keith Mickunas · 06-25-2003, 02:03 PM

Carl, there has been a rash of ticketing in NYC for stupid reasons lately. The city is hurting for cash, and the cops are under pressure to ticket for any little offense they can find. One guy was ticketed for sitting in front of his store on a milk crate. It wasn't that he was loitering on the sidewalk, it wasn't that he had a stolen milk crate, it was that he was sitting on the milk crate. If he'd been in a chair, no ticket, if he'd been on a bucket, no ticket, but he was on a milk crate. So do you think that guy, and everyone else in NYC complaining about these tickets, all told the cops to fuck off?

felix_suwarno · 06-25-2003, 05:58 PM

why was sitting on a milk crate an offense?

Keith Mickunas · 06-25-2003, 06:01 PM

Because only thugs sit on milk crates?

Actually I think the article covering that case stated the law had its origins in the fact that people often steal milk crates because they're so handy. But from the sound of it he was ticketed for sitting on a milk crate, not for being in possession of stolen property, probably because it'd be extremely difficult to prove that a milk crate was stolen.

Regardless, this is just one in a series of ridiculous tickets given without merit in NYC lately.

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Jeff Kleist · 06-26-2003, 12:30 AM

My brother was given a ticket for "causing a scenario which served no purpose"(actual text on ticket) $400 fine. They stopped on the highway to run into the bushes in a designated pullover point.

A lawyer who had dealt with the area court before said not even to bother challenging it, because we would be shot down and slapped with court fees. In 20/20 hindsight, we should have called the ACLU

Travis Olson · 06-26-2003, 02:14 AM

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"causing a scenario which served no purpose"

WTF is that supposed to mean? What a bunch of shit. That would have ticked me off so much that I would have disputed it as far as I could handle financially. That cop should have his badge removed.

Holadem · 06-26-2003, 07:23 AM

Yep, there has been a spree of silly tickets in the city lately. Among others, some guy was ticketed for feeding pigeons. You would think Bloomberg the financial genius would have found a better way to bring money to the city than raising subway fares ($1.50 --> $2.00 per trip, $4.00 --> $7.00 for a day pass

), tolls and ticketing for silly reasons.

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Carlo Medina · 06-26-2003, 11:54 AM

Yeah they even covered NYC's financial woes (and attempt to recoup parts of it via these silly tix) on the news here in Los Angeles, and I had heard about the pregnant teen case.

Come on Bloomberg, there's better ways to generate revenue (like our own Uncle Gray, who will triple the car registration fees and raise state tax 0.5%)!