What ever happened to public access to the parks for everyone?
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Woman Ticketed For Sitting On Park Bench Without Kids
POSTED: 7:45 am EDT September 27, 2005
UPDATED: 11:15 am EDT September 28, 2005
NEW YORK -- It's an only in New York story.
A woman was given a ticket for sitting on a park bench because she doesn't have children.
The Rivington Playground on Manhattan's East Side has a small sign at the entrance that says adults are prohibited unless they are accompanied by a child.
Sandra Catena, 47, said she didn't see the sign when she sat down to wait for an arts festival to start.
Two police officers asked her if she was with a child. When she said no, they gave her a ticket that could bring a $1,000 fine and 90 days in jail.
The city parks department said the rule is designed to keep pedophiles out of city parks, but a parks spokesman told the Daily News that the department hoped police would use some common sense when enforcing the rule.
The spokesman told the newspaper that ticketing a woman in the park in the middle of the day is not the way you want to enforce the rule.
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http://www.wnbc.com/news/5024493/detail.html
This is one of the more moronic things I've read in quite a while. Someone actually thought passing an ordinance prohibiting people without kids from sitting on a park bench was a good idea? This went exactly where I would expect this type of ordinance to go. I don't understand their logic of this preventing pedophiles from being in the park. The way I interpret their logic is that if you are at the park and don't have kids, you are a pedophile and dangerous. I would fight this ticket as far as possible.