Barney Fife lives in Australia?
Posted on 10/07/2005 7:19:00 AM PDT by dead
SYDNEY - An 83-year-old Australian woman who was fined for crossing the road too slowly has had the ticket torn up following community outrage, reports said.
Pensioner Pat Gallen, who uses a walking stick to get around, was fined 30 dollars (23 US dollars) for failing to cross a road in her hometown of Malanda in far north Queensland "in the most direct route," The Daily Telegraph reported.
"She didn't know whether to laugh or cry," her friend Fay Millist was quoted as telling Australian Associated Press.
"Everyone thought the whole thing was so wrong in the first place for someone of that age."
Police said the ticket, which had been issued by officers who were passing through the town, had been torn up.
"Taking into account all the circumstances of the case and the public interest it was decided to have the ticket withdrawn," Mareeba District Inspector Rolf Straatemeier told the Cairns Post.
Gallen said she would have fought the ticket in court.
"But the matter has been resolved, the police have apologised, everyone has had a laugh and now we can forget about it," she told the paper.
AFP
Barney Fife lives in Australia?
Bush's fault..(sarc/off)
Chief Wiggums needs to find another line of work.
But one thing here in the Northeast that drives me nuts is when seniors cross the street when they think there's a gap in the traffic instead of walking an extra block to a traffic light with a signalled crosswalk.
They never judge the distance right and are liable to cause accidents.
It might be possible to put signs up OLD PEOPLE CROSSING---a bent over figure with a cane---LOL
Write a ticket instead of helping her cross? What a dip...
"which had been issued by officers who were passing through the town"
The "Dunkin' Donuts" on the other side of town was about to close.
it irks me when the letter of the law is followed, instead of the spirit of justice
These officers are now counting Crocodiles in the outback.
Go euthanize yourself.
Wow. I was reading this story and thinking about all the elderly people in our complex....sometimes I watch those old ladies crossing First Ave or 23rd Street (inch by inch with their walkers/canes) and I just know one day a cab is going to hit them....sad.
"Got yer bullet, Digger?"
I see we have a DU troll who signed up today just to spout disgusting liberal statements. Go back to DUmmie land.
>Shoulda hit her with a bigger fine. Old fogeys slow up
>progress.
1) May the sunshine of your youth never fade
2) They should have volunteered her for assisted suicide
3) Hitting an old person crossing the street should take a point *off* your driving record
4) The fine money should fund a campaign for lowering the driving age
</sarc>
Did I leave anything out?
Fnuck Noo
Yeah
5) Take a flying f on a rolling donut.
Barney Fife lives in Australia?
Good thing she wasn't chewing gum on the subway!
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