Getting Fined on the NYC Subway

It looks like the NYPD is superflously uptight about some subway rules:

A Fashion Institute of Technology student and a waiter at a Brooklyn diner were each recently nailed by graveyard-shift transit cops, who hit them with $50 fines for taking up more than one seat on virtually empty trains at around 2:30 a.m.

MTA rules -- which are enforced by the NYPD's Transit division -- say a passenger may not "occupy more than one seat" or "place his or her foot on a seat."

Stevens said that both times he was ticketed he was in a nearly deserted car with only one or two other riders. And while he said he definitely was stretched out the first time, the next day he merely crossed his legs. Read more

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