The Trash of the Baskervilles
You know my methods, Watson. The game is litter in this foul cesspool of a city!
Posted on 07/05/2011 1:48:05 PM PDT by Red Badger
An elderly Upper East Side woman claims a sanitation agent chased her, threatened her with arrest and slapped her with a ticket for putting day-old newspapers in a city trash can.
Darbe Pitofsky, 83, said she was on her way for a cup of coffee around 6:30 a.m. on June 25 when she threw a brown bag filled with old papers in a city litter basket near her apartment on East 71st Street.
She said a sanitation worker quickly jumped out of his vehicle and demanded her information to write a summons.
“I froze,” Pitofsky told 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria. “He just frightened the hell out of me, scared me to death, I was terrified.”
She said the worker demanded a form of identification and threatened to “put her away” if she didn’t comply.
Pitofsky said it took the worker 25 minutes to write the summons and when she complained that it would cost her $100, she said he threatened to make it $300.
A representative for the Sanitation Department said street baskets are for pedestrian use only but added Pitofsky can challenge the ticket if she thinks there has been a mistake.
Litter baskets across the city are marked with stickers that read “no household trash” or “no business trash,” along with a warning of a $100 fine for violation. The Sanitation Department has a platoon of enforcement agents tasked with enforcing litter basket laws. Their duties even include doing detective work on trash suspected of being illegally dumped.
Pitofsky says she has already filed a complaint.
Her story is similar to that of 80-year-old Delia Gluckin, who last December, was also fined $100 for “improper disposal” for throwing her newspaper in a trash can in Inwood.
Do you think the city’s enforcement of the rules are too harsh? Let us know below…
I don’t know. I selected it in a picture search.
The Trash of the Baskervilles
You know my methods, Watson. The game is litter in this foul cesspool of a city!
Yeah I burn paper and cardboard here too.
“When all the taxpayers leave NYC, who will pay all these fat parasites’ fat salaries?......................”
The feds. Which means us, ultimately.
I burn it all and then will go to the dump every few months with a small bunch of ashes. My nearest neighbor is upwind and 400 yards away. My nearest downwind neighbor is almost a mile away. And at night nobody can see the black smoke.
And I’m doing my part to stop globabal cooling!
I live in a very small town (150 people or so).
I just burn in the early morning when there is no wind or when the wind is blowing out over the lake. Course I have small bonfires in the evening sometimes anyway.
And power trips for these uneducated losers who feel like they have some authority.
Isn’t this an old story - I remember reading this about a year or so ago.
Oh, never mind - it would help if I read the WHOLE article. Sorry.
I would have fined her, but only for subscribing to Thomas L. Friedman.
I think Sanitation Officer Fife, as suggested above, must be getting some interesting publicity for harassing an 83-year old woman, not just here, but in many places.
what's next, the TPP???
You really don’t need to burn all that often anyway. We had a LOT of packaging to burn when we were getting settled, but not so much now.
The following is one of the comments from the CBS website.
She should have thrown it on the ground. The sanitation workers can only fine for improper use of the cans. A police officer needs to be there to fine for littering. She would’ve gotten away with throwing the bag BY the can but not in the can- how ridiculous is that!
My neighbors and I know we live on the front line. But we like to live dangerously and we agreed we're not giving up a single inch to the Obastards without a fight.
~NYC homeowner
I don’t see you leaving America even though it’s run by a Marxist.
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