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"unauthorized Use" Of Plastic Milk Crate
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Sat May 24, 2003 @ 1:33am |
 Coolness: 686265 | Man cited for "unauthorized use" of plastic milk crate
Tue May 20, 2:00 PM ET NEW YORK (AFP) - As he tells it, Jesse Taveras, 19, stepped out for a breather from the hair-braiding salon where he works and sat down on a plastic milk crate that happened to be sitting on the sidewalk. A New York City police officer on the Grand Concourse, a main boulevard in the borough of the Bronx, walked up to Taveras and wrote him a ticket citing him for "unauthorized use of a milk crate." The infraction can carry a fine of up to 105 dollars. As he told the story to the New York Daily News, Taveras was incredulous. "I don't believe this," he told the cop, identified only as police officer Payan. Payan asked Taveras for identification, radioed his name to the local precinct to check for outstanding warrants, found none and gave him the ticket. To Taveras's protests, Payan reportedly replied, "Don't blame me. Blame Bloomberg," referring to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has ordered a so-called "quality-of-life" crackdown involving writing summonses for minor, but revenue-producing, infractions. The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA), the police union, asserts that Bloomberg is putting beat cops under pressure to write tickets, meet quotas and fill city coffers. "The NYPD (New York Police Department) has become a summons machine, generating millions of dollars to close the city's budget gap while eroding the relationship between police and the communities they serve," the PBA said in a statement. The city government denies these allegations, particularly concerning quotas. Taveras says he asked Payan what he was doing wrong. "You're sitting," the policeman reportedly replied. "We have to make our daily quota." The plastic milk carton on which Taveras had sat bore the imprint of Sunnydale Farms and the words "Use by anyone but registered owner is liable to prosecution, article 17A, General Business Law." Noting Taveras's bewilderment, Payan's partner waved it off, according to the Daily News, saying: "It's no big deal. The judge will throw it out, anyway." |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» OMGSTFUDIEPLZKTX replied on Sat May 24, 2003 @ 2:20am |
 Coolness: 67190 | comedy gold |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Sat May 24, 2003 @ 2:30am |
 Coolness: 340340 | this is where i say:
if i were the ticketee, i'd say "there are no laws gouverning the use of milk crates, nor are there any laws saying what i can or cannot sit on.. so fuck you." |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» OMGSTFUDIEPLZKTX replied on Sat May 24, 2003 @ 2:45am |
| Coolness: 67190 | Use by anyone but registered owner is liable to prosecution, article 17A, General Business Law.
I don't think he was a registered owner |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Sat May 24, 2003 @ 10:41am |
| Coolness: 340340 | if the owner of the milk crate had called up the polce and reported him, then it is possible he could have been charged.. however the police came along on their own.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» da_instagatah replied on Sat May 24, 2003 @ 11:52am |
 Coolness: 144905 | theyll do anything in the bronx |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» eLDee replied on Sat May 24, 2003 @ 12:28pm |
 Coolness: 121590 | Nobody mentionned bronx in the article |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» da_instagatah replied on Sat May 24, 2003 @ 12:41pm |
| Coolness: 144905 | Yeah and YOU obviously didn't read it:
A New York City police officer on the Grand Concourse, a main boulevard in the borough of the Bronx, walked up to Taveras and wrote him a ticket citing him for "unauthorized use of a milk crate." The infraction can carry a fine of up to 105 dollars. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc replied on Sun May 25, 2003 @ 10:14pm |
| Coolness: 149490 | police dont have to be called over for illegal use of things... ever hear of drugs?
anyway... he shouldnt have got a ticket.. thats just stupid |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Sun May 25, 2003 @ 11:25pm |
| Coolness: 340340 | unless the owner told the officer that the guy was using the crates illegally, then he cannot fine him..
'sitting on a crate' != contraban |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» soyfunk replied on Sun May 25, 2003 @ 11:50pm |
 Coolness: 127445 | no
it's biological warefare |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» OMGSTFUDIEPLZKTX replied on Mon May 26, 2003 @ 10:09am |
| Coolness: 67190 | heh, aparently the law exists, so sucks to be that guy |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin replied on Mon May 26, 2003 @ 9:25pm |
 Coolness: 277110 | using them for records is also "unauthorized use" but you can find some big enough at certain stores and they sell 'em. |
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