Tuesday, February 16, 2010

More Highway (or Subway) Robbery by the NYPD

It's amazing how localities that have mismanaged their finances can always find ways to essentially steal money from the little guy, by finding minor infractions to ticket. You would also think there were bigger crimes in New York to ticket than putting feet up on the seat across from you on the subway:

Khaytman, an 18-year-old senior honor student at the elite Stuyvesant High, was slapped with this $50 ticket 11 days ago at 2 a.m. The offense?

"He said I had my feet on the seat. It's against the law, and I've never heard of that one," Khaytman said.

But Khaytman, who dances three hours day, said he was only resting his weary feet on the edge of the seat across from him and definitely not "occupying more than one seat" as his ticket stated, since there were only five people in the entire train car.

He and his mother said the two officers who ticketed him were unnecessarily rude, saying to him, "if you're putting your feet up on the seat it's nasty and if you're nasty you deserve this ticket."

"I think it's totally ridiculous. I'm a single mom. I work three jobs. Fifty dollars, it's a lot of money," Izabella Medvinsky said.

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