From Mr. Angry:1) Traffic enforcement lurks around corner near bus stop
2) Car making turn at corner notices an unmarked car behind speeding up with lights in the grill on
3) Driver pulls into bus stop to let them pass, only to be boxed in and accosted by traffic agents for ’standing’ in the bus stop.
More of this entrapment is what 4 more years will get us.
16 comments:
I call BS. This is clearly a hoax.
Ok, how is this clearly a hoax?
Where is any proof of the asserted action? And don't tell me that grainy photograph is evidence of anything significant. If so, what exactly is the photograph depicting? And more importantly, if the author took the photo how does s/he know the motivations of all the third person actors in this melodrama?
Since no compelling evidence was offered up front, I stand by my claim that this is a hoax. The burden is on the complainant.
Getting a ticket for doing the right thing, letting an emergency vehicle pass? So you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. I wouldn't put such a thing past him. Basically, you're damned if you vote for Bloomberg. Dump this major piece of crap!
I wouldnt put it past the SOBs at City Hall, but I just dont think of this as bein a money maker. Too much coordination required and I dont think the doofus brownies could handle it. Too much to yield too little and too much risk for whomever might have set it up.
No, this is no hoax. I once got a ticket between the time I shut off my car engine and the minute it took to walk over to the Muni meter and put my money in.
The person who wrote the ticket was standing next to my car when I parked and the car engine was so warm that steam was rising off it on a damp day.
I had to go to Jamaica to fight this, was out the possibility of a temp assignment and was forced to choose between a definite loss of $100.00 on a bullshit ticket or gambling on the loss of weeks of work.
Now I have no car and they can kiss my ass in Macy's window.
I seriously doubt that the cops and traffic agents are in cahoots. None of the cops I know have anything nice to say about the brownies. They aren't going to join forces to write summonses. The only exception is Internal Affairs bosses, who are driving around with traffic agents, ordering them to summons and/or tow private cars of off-duty cops, who are parked illegally. This is clearly not the case here.
No one said they were in cahoots. The traffic officer saw his/her opportunity and grabbed it. Just like the story about the Sunnyside doctor.
I don't even know why anyone would go out of the way to pull off such an elaborate setup, when there are so many illegally parked cars in the city, that a traffic agent can easily write a hundred in an hour or two without resorting to questionable means. I second the BS call.
What elaborate about it? The traffic agent saw the car pull over and jumped on the opportunity. These types of stories have become more common over the past few months. The doctor story was by far the most ridiculous since the NYPD went so far as to arrest him.
No, this is no hoax. I once got a ticket between the time I shut off my car engine and the minute it took to walk over to the Muni meter and put my money in.
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You must have been on Bell Blvd, Bayside, eh? Crappy had a posting on this earlier. This weekend I was on Bell getting my kids some McD's. Obviously, I saw some over zealous traffic cops coming towards my direction. I waited for them to pass before I got out to feed the muni. It could have been one Un-Happy Meal.
Can't believe this is a set up. There are too many other parking ticket opportunities.
As I am sure there were other opportunities on Bell Blvd and in Howard Beachn and in Manhattan and in Sunnyside, all of which were chronicled on this blog. But the traffic agents did it any way. When you are issued a handheld scanner it invites corruption.
Not a hoax. Mike Bloomberg's throwing out of term limits, fudged con-stat numbers, etc - that's a Hoax.
Anonymous said:
"...The burden is on the complainant."
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So correct.
The complainant is the city. The city must prove the ticket is legitimate.
Or, did "innocent until proven guilty" go out the window?
The complainant is the city. The city must prove the ticket is legitimate.
What ticket? We haven't seen any ticket. All we have is an amusing anecdote and a generic, grainy photo.
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