Mikey Strikes Again
In his never-ending quest to make New York City a less attractive place to live and visit, Mikey is having the police write summons for minor quality-of-life infractions. The two latest idiocies occurred when an Israeli tourist was fined $50 for taking up more than one seat on a nearly empty subway and a pregnant woman was fined $50 for resting on a subway stairwell. Lenore Skenazy of The Daily News comes up with a list of other infractions she'd like to see tickets handed out for, all of which sound better to me than the real examples. Meanwhile, I can't wait until 2005, when New Yorkers will be saying "Mikey, we hardly knew ye, but what we did know was more than enough."
Tip from Solly Ezekiel.