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01-02-2007, 09:16 PM
NEW YORK, Jan. 2 A New York woman said she received a ticket with a hefty fine from two police officers who confronted her while she fed birds.
Yvette Bavier, a 60-year-old special-education administrator, said the female officers ticketed her for littering when they caught her sprinkling birdseed on the ground during her lunch break, the New York Post reported Tuesday. Bavier said it took the police several minutes to find a suitable offense to write on her ticket.
It took them so long, recalled Bavier, who said she also feeds birds near her home off Central Park West. They were looking up things. I don't think they knew what to write.The lifelong educator told the Post she was surprised the officers bothered ticketing her.
My first thought was they should be doing more important things, she said. However, Bavier said the most surprising moment of the ordeal came at the end, when one of the officers told her the case would probably be dismissed if she took it to court.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/17209.html
Yvette Bavier, a 60-year-old special-education administrator, said the female officers ticketed her for littering when they caught her sprinkling birdseed on the ground during her lunch break, the New York Post reported Tuesday. Bavier said it took the police several minutes to find a suitable offense to write on her ticket.
It took them so long, recalled Bavier, who said she also feeds birds near her home off Central Park West. They were looking up things. I don't think they knew what to write.The lifelong educator told the Post she was surprised the officers bothered ticketing her.
My first thought was they should be doing more important things, she said. However, Bavier said the most surprising moment of the ordeal came at the end, when one of the officers told her the case would probably be dismissed if she took it to court.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/17209.html