🚀 go-pugleaf

akio@hotbot.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Eating food in the metro system is a crime, by VA, DC, and MD law. In
> DC, the prohibition is covered by DC Criminal Code Title 44, Chapter 2,
> Section 44-223(b) which states, in annotated form: "It is unlawful for
> any person either while aboard a public passenger vehicle ... including
> vehicles owned and/or operated by WMATA, which is transporting
> passengers in regular route service within the corporate limits of the
> District of Columbia; or while aboard a rail transit car ... or WHILE
> WITHIN A RAIL TRANSIT STATION... to: (1) Smoke or carry a lighted or
> smoldering pipe, cigar, cigarette; (2) CONSUME FOOD OR DRINK; (3) Spit;
> (4) Discard litter ..."
> 
> Because this happened in DC, the officer had no option but to handcuff
> the kid. Had it happened in MD or VA, it would have been at the
> discretion of the officer to cuff or not. That said, it is kinda
> overkill. I wish they'd cuffed that guy I saw last year on the Metro
> who was clipping his toenails (?!). That oughtta be a crime.
> 
> --
> Bloodmonkey Media, Inc.

Or the officer could have simply taken the fries away from the
12 yr. old girl and warned her.

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