A new low for American liberty....

[King of Creation]

A woman was actually arrested for eating candy.

How ridiculous is this? Read and understand:

Woman Arrested, Cuffed for Eating Candy
By CANDACE SMITH

WASHINGTON (AP) - A government scientist finishing a candy bar on her way into a subway station where eating is prohibited was arrested, handcuffed and detained for three hours by transit police.

Stephanie Willett said she was eating a PayDay bar on an escalator descending into a station July 16 when an officer warned her to finish it before entering the station. Both Willett and police agree that she nodded and put the last bit into her mouth before throwing the wrapper into a trash can.

Willett, a 45-year-old Environmental Protection Agency scientist, told radio station WTOP that the officer then followed her into the station, one of several in downtown Washington.

``Don't you have some other crimes you have to take care of?'' Willett said she told the officer.

Washington has been under heightened security because of the continuing threat of terrorism. And last week, police declared a citywide crime emergency over rising juvenile crime.

The transit police officer asked for Willett's identification, but Willett kept walking. She said she was then frisked and handcuffed.

``If she had stopped eating, it would have been the end of it and if she had just stopped for the issuance of a citation, she never would have been locked up,'' Transit Police Chief Polly Hanson said Thursday.

Metrorail has been criticized in the past for heavy-handed enforcement of the eating ban. In 2000, a police officer handcuffed a 12-year-old girl for eating a french fry on a subway platform.

In 2002, one of their officers ticketed a wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy patient for cursing when he was unable to find a working elevator to leave a station. Unflattering publicity eventually led the police to void the ticket.

Willett was the second person arrested this year for eating or drinking, Hanson said. In addition, police have issued 58 tickets and given more than 300 written warnings.

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[bob_the_rambler]

hmmmm......some liberal must have thought eating in public would be offensive to anorexics

 

[Buckle]

Well, I live in DC and the Transit cops are asshats. I don't think it's a new low for liberty, it's just business as usual for those fuckers.

 

[DJ Slamák]

Yes, the article itself makes it look like this isn't that unusual in that location.

I hear it's now also forbidden to take photographs on the Washington subway. Or is that NY?

 

[Roshambo]

Yes, there is a worse job in police work than "sackless bike cop".

Transit cop. Most of these people are desperate to try and get into someone's good graces with a lot of busts, because they sure as hell have no possible way of advancing due to brains.

 

[SuAside]

BWAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAH!

i'm starting to understand why everybody is always going "god bless america". those retards REALLY need to be blessed with some extra braincells.

 

[APTYP]

Well people who eat smelly burgers and drown them with coke should be handcuffed and beaten with billy clubs. I'm sick of glass bottles, styrofoam cups and plastic boxes rattling around in the subway cars.

But that was just ridiculous. She was practically arrested for chewing.

 

[alec]

Ha

Haha

Liberty/candy/McDonalds/French fries

Yeah

Every night and day
In the USA
I delete myself

 

[Chik'n Hunt'a]

The more that I read, see events happening in America, the more it seems to look like URSS.

 

[Ratty Sr.]

Eating ban?! You mean, you aren't allowed to eat anything in the subway? Just what is that supposed to accomplish? Less litter? If those lazy fuckwits commonly known as "cleaners" did what they are paid to do, and if moronic parents took time to discipline their retarded kids and teach them it's fucking wrong to litter, maybe it wouldn't be necessary to beat people with nightsticks the moment they happen to make a chewing motion with their jaw.

Seriously, at times America makes Ceausescu's Romania seem more democratic.

 

[APTYP]

Lazy fuckwits commonly known as "cleaners" can't clean the train while it's out of the yard and carrying passengers, you retard. Just how stupid can you be? Have you ever been on a fucking subway? At peak hour there's barely enough space to stand, let alone for lazy fuckwits commonly known as "cleaners" to scurry around looking under seats for trash, which by the way would be annoyance of cosmic proportions to say the least. And cleaners DO clean the train pretty good once it gets back to the yard, pretty much everything other than shit-stained canvas on the seats which has to do more with supplies I guess.

Problems with eating on the train:
Your food stinks, and the noise you make disturbs other passengers. Same reason why drunken or disorderly behavior such as smoking, or playing loud music, is not allowed.
Trains are not lifts, they shake and rattle a lot. You can easily spill your soda or drop your food on the floor. If you ever got your food in a dirty pizza slice or a sticky coke puddle, you know what I mean.
Finally, yes - people who eat in the train often don't take their trash with them, they just leave it on the floor. If they are not allowed to take the food in, they can't leave the most disgusting trash ever (after puke and piss).

 

[King of Creation]

Cept for the fact that the woman who was arrested hadn't even gotten off the escalator yet when when she had finished her candy bar.

 

[Retlaw83]

Can someone explain to me how one individual transit cop (out of a population of hundreds of millions people in the country) who made an extremely poor decision is a "new low for American liberty"?

 

[APTYP]

Because transit police chief defended officer's decision to run after a chewing woman.

By the way, the woman wasn't arrested for eating candy. She was detained for failing to cooperate with the police officer when he asked her to stop and show her ID. She practically tried to run away from the cop. That's why she was frisked, handcuffed, and detained for 3 hours. I think the cops were just jumpy and tried to cover their bases in case she had something on her.

 

[Retlaw83]

Obviously, if you try to flee from a cop they'll get suspicious and think you're up to something.

 

[Ratty Sr.]

<snip>

Of course people shouldn't be allowed to bring food and shit on the train, dumbass, but cuffing people just because they chew anywhere inside the subway station is moronic. And even if your oppression-loving ass absolutely must have the eating ban, maybe you could fine people who violate it, instead of hauling them off to San Quentin the second you suspect they might have food in their mouth. Believe it or not, it's possible to enforce discipline without putting guns to people's temples.

 

[Raza]

Liberty/candy/McDonalds/French fries

Freedom Fries*

 

[APTYP]

dumbass,

I'm neither an ass nor dumb, but you, my foreign friend, are the first-rate retard if I ever saw any.

but cuffing people just because they chew anywhere inside the subway station is moronic.

Moron. Read again, if you can read of course:

By the way, the woman wasn't arrested for eating candy. She was detained for failing to cooperate with the police officer when he asked her to stop and show her ID. She practically tried to run away from the cop. That's why she was frisked, handcuffed, and detained for 3 hours. I think the cops were just jumpy and tried to cover their bases in case she had something on her.

And even if your oppression-loving ass

I don't have a donkey, and even if I did, neither him or I would love oppression. Please be so kind as to point out with your shit-stained finger you just pulled out of your ass where is it that I claimed to love oppression! Nowhere? Thank you, shut up and sit down. Moron.

fine people who violate it, instead of hauling them off to San Quentin the second you suspect they might have food in their mouth.

Moron. They issue tickets. Let me quote that again:

Willett was the second person arrested this year for eating or drinking, Hanson said. In addition, police have issued 58 tickets and given more than 300 written warnings.

Believe it or not, it's possible to enforce discipline without putting guns to people's temples.

You really are stupid, aren't ya? Again, because the first time wasn't enough:

By the way, the woman wasn't arrested for eating candy. She was detained for failing to cooperate with the police officer when he asked her to stop and show her ID. She practically tried to run away from the cop. That's why she was frisked, handcuffed, and detained for 3 hours. I think the cops were just jumpy and tried to cover their bases in case she had something on her.

Someone please put this retard out of his misery, his clueless antics give me a headache.

 

[Ratty Sr.]

<snip>

My, you really are a moron, aren't you?

Metrorail has been criticized in the past for heavy-handed enforcement of the eating ban. In 2000, a police officer handcuffed a 12-year-old girl for eating a french fry on a subway platform.

By the way, this is the last post I exchange with you on this subject. I have better things to do with my time than bother replying to some dipshit's clueless gibberish and blatant flamebait.

 

[SkynetV4]

Girls, girls, go easy on the PMS. It's noobs that can faggot-slap each other, us regulars are suppossed to set the better example.