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05-20-2003 05:59 AM |
Watch Where You Sit
You have to see this to believe it
ONLY in our Lovely Bloomberg City (NYC)
May 20, 2003 7:32 am US/Eastern
(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.
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