Because They Can Do That, Right?

I’ll tell you what though, the only thing cooler would have been if he fixed the ticket instead:

A city detective stepped up to pay the parking ticket received by a man making a holiday donation to a family in need on Staten Island.

The cop, who asked not to be named, said he wanted to help out after reading in the Daily News that [a good Samaritan] was slapped with a $60 ticket while dropping off a truckload of baby supplies for [an unemployed man] — even though both men insist the traffic agent told them it was OK to stop and unload.

Besides offering to pay the ticket, he got two cases of diapers donated by his local Toys R Us and also bought a gift certificate for [the man] and his four-month-old son.

“I was like, ‘oh man, unbelievable,'” the detective said. “I thought it was horrible.

“I don’t want to beat up on the traffic agent, the traffic agent’s got a job to do; but we get a bad rap as it is. Maybe the traffic agent had a directive to give out summonses in that particular area,” he said.

“I’d like to make it kind of right…There’s a lot of good cops out there. I want people to realize that.”

Earlier: The Mad Rush To Fulfill End-Of-Year “Productivity Goals”.