In The End, What’s A $60 Ticket Worth To You?
Here’s what happens when a retired police officer tries to get his 91-year-old aunt’s Sanitation ticket dismissed. I think David Lynch could make a movie about it; think “Straight Story II; Fighting The Law.”
In short, the Sanitation Department gave his aunt a ticket for not having lids on her trash cans. The problem was that she didn’t use trash cans. A bizarre journey to prove the non-existence of something that never existed ensues:
Posted: December 23rd, 2011 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Jerk Move, The Screenwriter's Idea Bag“I had to get letters from the neighbors attesting to the fact that my aunt never has garbage cans in front of her house. I had to take pictures of the house to show that there weren’t any cans there,” [the man] said.
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More instructions followed. La Torre was told to obtain letters of support from Community Board 10 and from local elected officials.