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apparently its against the law to give money to those in need in certain places
and you will be fined
Cop: Dropped charitable contribution equals littering
11:48 am May 23, 2012, by George Mathis
What most people consider litter. (AJC)
DeKalb County pedestrians’ hobby of choice, littering, works a lot differently in Ohio, where a man faces up to a $500 fine for dropping a $1 bill he was attempting to give a street urchin.
Motorist John Davis tells Cleveland’s Fox station that he was stopped in traffic and saw a man on the roadside in a wheelchair seeking charitable contributions. The man was even holding a “religious” sign, so clearly he was worth helping.
Davis, whose brother is also in a wheelchair, reached for his wallet.
He rolled down his window and handed the less fortunate Cleveland denizen two bucks, but one of the dollar bills fell to the ground. The man in the wheelchair picked up the dropped cash and Davis continued on his way until a Cleveland police officer pulled him over and wrote him a ticket for littering.
The ticket cites Davis for “Throw [sic] paper out window” and in parentheses, “money to panhandler,” Fox 8 reports.
Police officials refused comment on the ticket, but said Davis may have been cited incorrectly. Another city ordinance states it is illegal to “transfer currency… to any person standing on a street or highway.”
There’s no ordinance stopping Atlanta drivers from throwing money out a window, police tell me.
Fox 8 says the ticket has “destroyed [Davis'] joy.”
Don’t let the man get you down that easily
apparently its against the law to give money to those in need in certain places
and you will be fined
Cop: Dropped charitable contribution equals littering
11:48 am May 23, 2012, by George Mathis
What most people consider litter. (AJC)
DeKalb County pedestrians’ hobby of choice, littering, works a lot differently in Ohio, where a man faces up to a $500 fine for dropping a $1 bill he was attempting to give a street urchin.
Motorist John Davis tells Cleveland’s Fox station that he was stopped in traffic and saw a man on the roadside in a wheelchair seeking charitable contributions. The man was even holding a “religious” sign, so clearly he was worth helping.
Davis, whose brother is also in a wheelchair, reached for his wallet.
He rolled down his window and handed the less fortunate Cleveland denizen two bucks, but one of the dollar bills fell to the ground. The man in the wheelchair picked up the dropped cash and Davis continued on his way until a Cleveland police officer pulled him over and wrote him a ticket for littering.
The ticket cites Davis for “Throw [sic] paper out window” and in parentheses, “money to panhandler,” Fox 8 reports.
Police officials refused comment on the ticket, but said Davis may have been cited incorrectly. Another city ordinance states it is illegal to “transfer currency… to any person standing on a street or highway.”
There’s no ordinance stopping Atlanta drivers from throwing money out a window, police tell me.
Fox 8 says the ticket has “destroyed [Davis'] joy.”
Don’t let the man get you down that easily
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Chief of Police Orders Ten Officers to Hunt Down Son’s Stolen iPhone
Blood runs thicker than water and, apparently, familial iPhones are more important than real police work. At least, that's the case in Berkeley, where Police Chief Michael Meehan ordered ten of his officers to look for his son's stolen iPhone.
When Meehan's little boy lost his iPhone from his locker at Berkeley High School on January 11th, his father was quick to act, reports the SFGate. The phone in question had tracker software installed, so Meehan deployed his crime sergeant's team, as well as drug task force officers, to hunt it down. Drug task officers!
The phone stopped transmitting a signal eventually, and was never found. Still, that didn't stop ten officers looking for it, four of whom were being paid overtime throughout the process.
SFGate reports that, conveniently, none of the officers filed a report about the incident when it happened in January. Since word spread, a department spokesperson has explained that lack of paperwork as "an oversight that came to our attention when researching" the allegations. Convenient.
It's not the first time Meehan has been in hot water: he's being investigated by a San Francisco law firm for sending an officer to a reporter's home after midnight to get changes to be made for a story. In other words, he thinks he's a big deal. Though clearly, his son's iPhone is a pretty big deal, too—so it's a shame that even all that effort didn't find it. [SFGate]
Image from City of Berkeley
