If everybody dumped their household garbage in the street cans — I’d be crazy not to!!!

So long as you had a permit for the coals, a fire permit to light them, and clean up the area when you’re done.

Good point. In fact, wasn’t this elderly lady a “pedestrian” if she was walking by the trash can with her brown bag?

Your hateful comment has been reported and will be removed. Sorry your life is so sad but i wont stoop to your level and slam your hometown.

Wow, NY is full of the most heinous crimes in all of America and yet they are giving trash throwing tickets? Makes you wonder why there aren’t MORE real cops on the STREETS to curb gangs, drugs, prostitution, kidnapping, and God knows what else. Well, unlike many out there who actually voted for this fool in the presidency, I did not because he rouse was easily seen through. We promise to CREATE jobs!! (lol garbage police)(see disclaimer) I promised the moon AND the stars so if I miss you can’t hold me accountable for it because I aimed HIGH!!!

too much power for the little minded and insignificant people

Just unbelievable. That’s all I can say on the matter. However, it would seem that with all of NYC’s problems, tax dollars could be better spent than using that money to hire trash thugs to harass the elderly.

I am so glad that I moved away from NYC. Don’t miss it at all and I can even get good pizza and Italian food where I live now.

Come on people this is NY we are talking about,the garbage can of America.If we took all the trash out of New York, it would just be a big hole in the ground.

The height of ridiculousness. Good example of just have insane our government is. And 24 minutes to write a ticket at 25+ per hour. Absolutely insane.

Excellent! I like that kind of thinking!! Those trashmen are sooo stupid!

They dont want to work. They just want to set in the car an make sure nobody uses the trash can because thay will have to pick it up and empity it. Probably the only people allowed to ues the trash can will be kings & queens taking a stroll. a flower may end up in one can and the trash people wont have to empty it. If littering is a cheeper fine then do away with the trash cans and fire the workers. Have the workers former pay go into the dead beat trash can workers littering account so the police will collect money every time someone throughs something on the ground

Only in NY City. I am sure that these workers voted for the Obama team and look what they got! Sure glad I live in the mid west!

Good idea, Paul.

Or she should’ve thrown it in his face!

Sounds to me the TSA has finally found theur calling.. The tactics are the same

They’ll go after her yet we release women that kill their child.

Give a man a uniform or a title and he will make an ass of himself !

correct. NYC is staffed by idiots so treat them like the idiots they are.

Where I come from, even police officers do not assail 83 year old women without keeping a respectable and calm tongue in their head, and they do. If some jerk other than a cop tried it, and there was an adult man about, there is a good chance the self important s.o.b. would be nursing a broken nose.

It is called “respecting the elderly”, and “chivalry”, and it benefits society and civility enormously. No reason in the world for the men in New York not to do it, either. It’s part of being a real man.

It depends on what newspaper it was. Most New York papers are “trash” and properly belong in a trash can.

What are you allowed to throw in these policed trash cans or are they just there for revenue?

instead of firing teachers, perhaps these sanitation police can be reassigned or laid off !!! Picking on a 83yr old woman at 6:30 am is nasty.

I’m not from NY area but Midwest (Iowa). I guess I might have been fined,
also. I normally don’t buy one newspaper but all from nearby cities from
our local gas station. So, I buy 3 papers aday.

But she should have known local policy and by that she is guilty.

Now we know what kind of people Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has to deal with in Madison.

Time for revolution.

Wrong a sanitation enforcement officer can write summons for
littering(complaint). Even a private citizen can file a complaint
and enforce the sanitation laws if they choose to!!!!

In NYS(court of appeals decision, 1936), says a private citizen
ny enforce state, city and federal laws.

Most people(private citizens) are smart enough not to try to
do law enforcement them self. ( the hazard of being wrong
is a charge of unlawful imprisonment !!).

The real problem with the summons is:

1) toooooooooo vague!

2) notice(on basket) tooooooooooooo inconspicious!!!
(improper notice)

3) No definition of what is permitted in basket
and what is not permitted!!

4) How would you know if your violating the regulations
unless the list permitted items.

I agree.

That’s easy, because some of the stupidest people live in New York and they elect like minded politicians, Same as San Francisco

Because we’ve gone from being the leader of the country to a big Roosevelt Island Luna Park Thanks to that Bum Bloomberg. I don’t know who voted for him. I never did, He’s as New Yorker as a Boston Clam Chowder.

Ask the Weiner.

2 types work to “serve” the public. One is doing his civic duty. The other is looking for power and control over other people. The “little Hitlers” are motivated by much more than mere civic duty. Hence the type people we see in our government, at all levels.

no, tsa

I think TSA

Tony, you are now on the list of agitators, watch your step or else.

Sanitation workers learn not to harass large men with short tempers. When they get out of the hospital from their training experience, they pick on someone they can outrun or intimidate.

You’re a fool.

Based on your B/S Everybody that lives in Harlem , Brooklyn and the Ghettoes would be arrested since the streets are filthy ,

I happen to agree with you. The article was written in a very biased manner, but it the story was written — “A sanitation worker witnessed an 83 year-old-woman leave her home with a bag of trash and throw it into street bin clearly marked ‘For pedestrian use only. Not for household trash. $100 fine.’ She doesn’t believe she should have to pay the fine because she is old and there was a newspaper in her bag of household trash.” — well then it wouln’t be much of a story.

John. It is an ignorant situation on the part of the sanitation worker. Plain and simple. This was not a bag of household garbage, it was some newspapers. I find your willingness to allow such absurdity to be part of the danger of today’s society and its eventual journey into a draconian state. But perhaps that sort of ruling makes you feel more safe?

Is that why Dog Do Do is everywhere as well as Rat’s .
NY Sanitation recently said there are more Rat’ than people in NY .. And your worried about a new paper thrown in a trash can ….. Pathetic !

You’re the type who would mail your mother to make a dime, and send her COD..

How big a fine to dump nathan in the trash?

That’s pretty much the truth. The fact that she’s an old lady adds the needed “poor old person” element to the story that it needed. But the signs on the trash cans are very clear: no household trash.

It does sound like the sanitation guy was a bit of a jerk though. He’s probably under pressure from someone in a chain of command all the way up to Bloomberg to squeeze every cent possible from people. He could have just let it go, but didn’t. But for the old lady not to understand she did break a clear rule is a stretch.