{"id":649,"date":"2006-02-01T08:09:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/post_headline_of_the_day.html"},"modified":"2006-02-01T08:09:15","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T16:09:15","slug":"post_headline_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/post_headline_o.html","title":{"rendered":"Post Headline Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Post headline of the day is “Do You Believe This Sit?!”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A ride home on the F train doubled the cost of Samantha Hoover’s groceries — after a cop wrote her a $50 ticket for putting the plastic bag on the seat next to her.<\/p>\n

Sitting on the “mostly empty” Brooklyn-bound train Friday evening, Hoover, 33, said she tried to read a magazine, but her thoughts wandered between her day at work and the steak dinner she and her fianc\u00c3\u00a9 were going to prepare when she got home.<\/p>\n

“Next thing I know, a police officer walks up and wants to know if I’ve ever been arrested,” said Hoover. “He asked for my identification and said, ‘You can’t put your bag there.'”<\/p>\n

Hoover’s life as an outlaw was made possible by new MTA subway rules — prohibiting activities such as roller-skating or walking between cars, not to mention putting bags on seats.<\/p>\n

They supplemented earlier restrictions on smoking and panhandling.<\/p>\n

Taking up more than one seat had always been an offense punishable with a fine. But until now, it was enforced only against people sprawled across several seats.<\/p>\n

Officer Mohammad Ishrat told Hoover to leave the train with him at the Jay Street\/Borough Hall stop so he could check whether there were any warrants for her arrest, she said.<\/p>\n

“I have had a couple of parking tickets,” she later confessed.<\/p>\n

Instead, she tried to argue that her Whole Foods bag had not made any impact on the rest of the passengers.<\/p>\n

“The train was empty,” Hoover said she told the cop.<\/p>\n

Ishrat pointed at the plastic Whole Foods bag and explained it didn’t matter, she said. He then boosted the $46.73 she spent on steak, vegetables, strawberries and snacks with a $50 fine.<\/p>\n

The NYPD did not return a call seeking comment.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Post headline of the day is “Do You Believe This Sit?!”: A ride home on the F train doubled the cost of Samantha Hoover’s groceries — after a cop wrote her a $50 ticket for putting the plastic bag on the seat next to her. Sitting on the “mostly empty” Brooklyn-bound train Friday evening, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,25,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-new_york_post","category-thats_an_outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}