[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

That’s an odd number (literally), did one get away?

[Liberty Ship]

One thing for sure, you can’t play chess when there ARE kids around.

Cops like soft targets. The DA probably needed some white guys to get busted to keep the stats balanced.

[sauropod]

Nurse Bloomburg strikes again.

[theDentist]

Sounds like an overly ambitious Rookie mistake.

[dead]

A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park

I love the NY Post and read it everyday, but they never miss an opportunity to inflame the situations.

"Cops in bulletproof vests"?! That's what they wear all the time. They didn't don them to take on the chessers.

This is unusual for the NYPD to get involved in such idiocy. Bloomberg must have given a direct order, or somebody spotted them conceal-carrying cigarettes.

[thethirddegree]

Incidents like this are what undermine public confidence in LEO and make the citizenry more inclined to view them as Fascist thugs hiding behind a badge.

[icwhatudo]

They were not ticketed for playing chess-they were ticketed for being in an area reserved for kids. The area is clearly marked that only adults accompanying kids can be in that area. I'm not saying I agree with the ticketing (as opposed to a warning) but to say it was because of them playing chess is silly NYPost hype.

"Another man ticketed that day, Inwood resident and artist Junior "Chiqui" Mendoza, 46, said that the police "should have given us a warning, and not a ticket."

Hmmm, 46 year old male "artist" hanging around in a kids park. I hope he doesn't have some obsession with bananas being placed at the rear or between the legs of kids carton characters.

[Deaf Smith]

Is this the Park & Chess tables featured in various TV shows and commercials?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All men are nothing more than potential rapists and child molesters and must be kept away from women and children at any cost.

[luvbach1]

Crime must have been reduced to a negligible level in NY for cops to have time for this.

[Oratam]

I wonder if the playground area was the only place with table and chairs. The park walks are (or were once) lined with benches—not the optimal chess board surface.

[struggle]

It’s a ROOK not a CROOK, you idiot!!!

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As the coach for my high school’s chess club, I find this infinitely entertaining.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There’s a chess game in the Bronx,
Brooklyn’s broken out with Yahtzee
Queens has old Italian men
Engaged in open games of Bocce
They’re playing checkers at Penn Station
A Backgammon Situaion.....

Precinct 34, Where Are You?

[dfwgator]

As we slouch yet even closer to becoming a Fascist State.

[goldstategop]

The rule is designed to protect kids from pedophiles. What web have here are cops who lack common sense and who have nothing better to do with their time than roust innocent citizens who play a game of chess.

When playing chess is outlawed, only outlaws will play chess.

[GlockThe Vote]

There are way too mnay cops getting paid way too much with nothing to do.

“Life on the line” my #$%%%.