Hat tip Citizen Q.
Yes, i said ‘garbage man’. I don’t play the rename the job to make it sound more important -gender neutral-Human Resources crap…so sue me.
Anyway, this is what goes on IN NYC? Once proud New Yorkers put up with municipal employees with police powers? Man. Nanny Bloomberg must have put something in the water to brainwash everyone in the 5 boroughs. Citizens of NYC put up with this??? Has the city fallen that far in the past 10 years? I can’t imagine what would happen if the garbageman tried to write a ticket out here…
I used to live in West Berlin and traveled extensively through the East. In the DDR, the garbage man, the postman, and everyone else were used by the state to keep a boot on the necks of the people through spying and reports to the VoPo. When I read this article all I could think of was the spying mailman in the DDR, working for the state, turning in his neighbors for a pat on the head from his superior and to buy another day on the good side of the party.
I haven’t been to NYC since Rudy was mayor. That is probably a good thing. You cats in the 4 other boroughs need to take back your city. I can assure you that if this happened out here where we peons live, the town council meetings would be over run with masses of very angry bergers.
The police should be the only ones writing tickets, they are sworn officers of the law and are trained to do this task.
What next, the chefs and waiters writing tickets if you eat too much salt?
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – An elderly Upper East Side woman claims a sanitation agent chased her, threatened her with arrest and slapped her with a ticket for putting day-old newspapers in a city trash can.
Darbe Pitofsky, 83, said she was on her way for a cup of coffee around 6:30 a.m. on June 25 when she threw a brown bag filled with old papers in a city litter basket near her apartment on East 71st Street.
She said a sanitation worker quickly jumped out of his vehicle and demanded her information to write a summons.
“I froze,” Pitofsky told 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria. “He just frightened the hell out of me, scared me to death, I was terrified.”
She said the worker demanded a form of identification and threatened to “put her away” if she didn’t comply.
Pitofsky said it took the worker 25 minutes to write the summons and when she complained that it would cost her $100, she said he threatened to make it $300.
A representative for the Sanitation Department said street baskets are for pedestrian use only but added Pitofsky can challenge the ticket if she thinks there has been a mistake.
Litter baskets across the city are marked with stickers that read “no household trash” or “no business trash,” along with a warning of a $100 fine for violation. The Sanitation Department has a platoon of enforcement agents tasked with enforcing litter basket laws. Their duties even include doing detective work on trash suspected of being illegally dumped.
Pitofsky said she has already filed a complaint.
Her story is similar to that of 80-year-old Delia Gluckin, who last December, was also fined $100 for “improper disposal” for throwing her newspaper in a trash can in Inwood.
