In recent months, reports have surfaced that the NYPD has been going around issuing tickets to subway riders for everything from to placing a backpack on an empty seat of an empty train to having a sick pug on board. Many have cried foul over the city needlessly harassing otherwise law-abiding citizens during early morning commutes, but apparently they’re not stopping anytime soon.
Less than two months after The Post revealed the NYPD’s graveyard-shift ticket blitz, a 17-year-old Stuyvesant HS student was hit two weeks ago with a $50 fine for obstructing more than one chair — even though there were only four other people in the subway car and his feet were on the seat’s edge.
Irvin Khaytman, 17, was on his way home from a birthday party two weeks ago when he got written up. He was getting off the D train to transfer to the N at the 36th Street station in Brooklyn about 2 a.m. when he was abruptly stopped by a police officer on the platform.
“He said he saw my feet on the edge of the seat next to me,” Khaytman said. “He said putting your feet on a seat is nasty, and since I was nasty, I deserved a ticket.”
And yet somehow the guy I saw defecating into a show box on the Union Square subway platform last week got away without a ticket. Go figure.
Well, at least the guy who defecated into a shoe box on the platform was practicing Leave No Trace, while the punk who had his dirty shoes on a subway seat, well, would his grammy let him do that to her coffee table? No! "Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" And then, ka-POW, because his nana is Amy Bishop.
I saw the same thing in a train at 4 am several weeks ago. Two cops stopped the train and pulled a girl off because her feet were on the seat. There were maybe 5 other passengers in the entire train – who were all with her and had to get out while the officers arrested and booked her. That's civil terrorism.