{"id":6875,"date":"2011-12-23T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2011-12-23T00:52:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T05:52:27","slug":"because_they_can_do_that_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/because_they_can_do_that_right.html","title":{"rendered":"Because They Can Do That, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll tell you what though, the only thing cooler would have been if he fixed the ticket instead<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘oh man, unbelievable,'” the detective said. “I thought it was horrible.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to make it kind of right…There’s a lot of good cops out there. I want people to realize that.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier: The Mad Rush To Fulfill End-Of-Year “Productivity Goals”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875","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=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6877,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}