Yet the NYPD says they have no ticket quota. :dubious:
WTF!!! Like the cops there don’t have real crimes to deal with… They have to ticket/fine a parent whose kids baloon popped.
LAME SHIT!
What usually happens is the NYPD Brass/Mayor order more tickets written to generate income.
PO Union complains in public that they are given quotas to explain the influx of moronic tickets to make the brass and mayor look bad and displace blame from the POs. Brass/Mayor deny quota (no one believe them).
Poor working class guy gets moronic ticket and sometimes makes headlines (haven’t seen this incident reported around here yet). Judge will most likely dismiss ticket but the ticketed may miss a days wages and still lose money.
Earlier this year a man was ticketed for sitting on a milk crate outside the barber shop where he worked and a pregnant woman was ticketed for sitting on the stairs in the subway.
Not saying the PO was right for writing the ticket but he/she could have just been having one of those days. On the other hand the PO could be a moron.
I’m actually more concerned about the above spelling of ‘curb’.
And that’s in the article - I just checked.
Holy crap, people, EDIT and PROOFREAD!
Ava
“Kerb” is an accepted spelling. I think of it as a more English spelling, though.
I would consider that the most likely reason by default…
I stand corrected. And Ananova is a British site so I guess they would use the accepted British spelling.
I’ll slink off in humiliation now…
Ava
Let me tell you, though, it looks really weird in the British edition of Catcher in the Rye.
(About as weird as it sounds to have Patrick Stewart referring to people as lootenant on NextGen.)
Newsflash to the NYPD: Sometimes balloons pop. And they can pop all by themselves without the help of anyone else. It’s just a fact of life. Balloons do that. They can be sensitive like that. If you are going to give tickets for something like that, then just ban balloons.
I wonder- did the guy pop the balloon himself or was it an accident?
Even so, the PO was a moron. I hope the guy is laughed out of court.
Well, I don’t care what the NYPD don’t allow
I’m gonna pop those balloons any old how!
I’m envisioning cops sitting there, hearing the balloon pop and dropping their coffee or spilling their lunch on themselves because they first thought it was a gunshot. Then, in embarrassment, they decided to flex their muscle against the guy and his kid, just to cover themselves for looking really dumb. (Not that anyone saw them, likely, but just in case.)
Or perhaps they’re just a bunch of jerks.
Well how would you expect him to pronounce it? Picard is French!
Well, he obviously learned English from a Brit.
What I heard is the kid dropped it and it popped upon contact with the sidewalk. Must not have been filled with helium.
I was waiting for that.
Does anybody remember a certain Sesame Street cartoon?
“If I poke this balloon with a pin and it pops. . .”
And the kid goes through all the consequences that may come about if he popped his balloon. None of them was getting a ticket.
Please somebody else remember this cartoony. So’s I can convince myself that I’m not crazy.
And just let the British keep using their ridiculous spellings? Where’s the honour in that?
<little girl voice>I wonder what would happen if I popped this balloon?</lgv>
Also, Biggirl, do you remember, “A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter”? :0)