Comments on: Did this actually happen?

By: Puzzled

Puzzled — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:30:32 +0000

Yes similar thing to me – late at night, sitting on the bench waiting for my train to arrive, which would be in 20 or 30 minutes. Fell asleep on the benches sitting up (or at least when they woke me up I appeared to be sitting up). I explained I was just waiting for my train and fell asleep and was issued a fine!

Are they working on commission or something??

By: mikey mike

mikey mike — Sun, 15 May 2011 02:05:43 +0000

my friend just got the same ticket and summons. it’s ridiculous and all, but it has nothing to do with the fact that you’re a woman….

By: radicaldoula

radicaldoula — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:53:47 +0000

F the Police–

I appreciate your anger, I too was so pissed when this happened to me. But please don’t express that anger through the use of racial slurrs.

By: Faak the Police

Faak the Police — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:48:07 +0000

I got a ticket for walking between the subway cars today. Faak the Police. These white trash men are the one who couldn’t make it in high school, apparently couldn’t make it to college, so they became a slave of the city and are punishing people who don’t deserve to be punished: good citizen of the city who pays an overwhelmingly high tax all year.

Go get a faaking life.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:29:34 +0000

Same thing happened to me the other day. I had to try so hard not to make a scene.. The cop almost arrested me because i was visually angry for what he was doing to me… All i had done was take a quick rest at midnight on the empty train, i was 1 stop away from my friends house and I wasnt seven sleeping, just resting. . I tore up the ticket and threw it away infront of him… Now i have to call the MTA to recover the ticket and pay it…. We are such slaves to the man.. NYPD.. GET A LIFE.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:39:33 +0000

The same thing happened to me last night (Thursday) at 2 am. I really don’t think that my foot being on the seat next to me was bothering any of the six people at the train at the time. However, the officer informed me that I wouldn’t know since I was sleeping. Apparently it doesn’t matter that I was with someone who was awake and could clearly inform me if someone needed to sit there.

By: Kunal Mehta

Kunal Mehta — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:49:46 +0000

Believe it or not, I got a similar ticket a few weeks ago for holding the doors open of a subway train when the dorrs were closing. This makes absolutely no sense. NYC cops have absolutely nothing better to do than hand out tickets for petty stuff like this. I pay several tens of thousands of dollars every year in taxes to this city and I am shocked that the city cops treat its citizens like this.

The funny thing is the doors were not closing and when I argued with the cop that how could I hold the doors open if the doors were not closing he simply said “tell that to the judge.” I don;t have time to go talk to the judge because the stupid illeterate puberty police THINKS I was holding the doors open. Now I have $75 ticket.

Lesson learnt: be overly cautious of cops at train stations. Generally speaking cops are here to harass the citizens they are sworen to protect and server. This is bull….

By: Update: Subway Ticket Incident « Radical Doula

Update: Subway Ticket Incident « Radical Doula — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:57:46 +0000

[...] Subway Ticket Incident A month ago I posted a story about how I was given a ticket on the NYC subway. It was allegedly for taking up more than one seat (even though it was 2am on a Thursday). The [...]

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:14:58 +0000

Same thing happened to my friend and her husband a couple of weeks ago…each of them fined at about 3am when NO ONE else was on the train…for taking up more than one seat. ummm….wtf. do cops now have quotas for arresting subway riders? scare us up a bit? so ridiculous. why don’t they come on and fine people who take up more than one seat, or make it uncomfortable for others to sit (particularly those individuals who spread their legs unnecessarily widely, and/or put hands on the seats next to them) during rush hour?! when it would actually affect the public good? What train were you on? They were on the N. err, ah…assuming you’re in NY?

By: bean

bean — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:12:55 +0000

This *is* insane. Really offensive. Seems to me like a bunch of cops who have too much macho power and not enough brain cells to use it correctly. Between this and the weekend’s revelation that the cops were spying pre-2004 RNC…ugh. I think MilbyDaniel gets it right. Fuck the po-lice (they’ve got no right to fuck with you).