The city's commissars in the Department of Sanitation, not having anything better to do with their time, are threatening a six-year old girl with a $300 fine for defacing city property with "graffiti".
What did she do that was so bad? She drew on the sidewalk with chalk. You know, pictures of Dad, hopscotch, stuff like that.
Oh, and lest you think that this was just a bureaucratic misunderstanding, the spokesman for the department, Cathy Dawkins, shows just how brain-dead they really are:
"For sidewalk chalk that would dissolve at the first rain? Dawkins said the law is on her agency’s side.
'The instrument used — whether it’s paint or chalk — does not matter,' she said."
Coming next: parking tickets for toddlers' Big Wheels.
A special raspberry goes to the idiot neighbor who anonymously called the 311 information line to drop a dime on the kid, instead of just walking over and telling the mother that the chalk bothered them. Way to go, jerk.
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