Re: 12 yr old handcuffed and arrested for eating French fries

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"Michael Malak" <malak@claygency.com> wrote:

>It's about time.  I like public transportation, but the one thing
>I hate is smelling McDonald's french fries.  It's a perpetual
>problem on Greyhound, but can also be a problme on Amtrak.  The
>girl in this incident knew it was wrong, but willfully violated
>the rules anyway.

No one is disputing the fact that there are rules against food on
Metro property, nor the fact that what she did was against those
rules, nor the fact that these rules are designed to promote cleaner
conditions in the Metro system, nor the fact that the authorities were
within their rights to cite the girl for breaking these rules.

So, please explain your point.  Do you support the severity of the
action taken by the authorities in this case?  Or are you simply so
intolerant about the smell of French fries that you feel children
should be handcuffed and arrested for bringing them onto Metro
property, rather than being issued a ticket or a verbal warning?

Zero tolerance does not call for zero common sense.

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