Manhattan, NY – Elderly Woman Fined For Dumping Trash In Corner Basket

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    File photo flickr by [mementosis] Manhattan, NY – An 83-year-old Upper East Sider says the Sanitation Department treated her like garbage.

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    Darbe Pitofsky claims she was chased, threatened with arrest and slapped with a $100 ticket — all for throwing out her newspapers in a city trash can.

    “I was so frightened,” Pitofsky said of her bizarre early-morning run-in with a surly sanitation agent on June 25 near her East 71st Street apartment. “I was a nervous wreck.”

    Pitofsky, was on her way to a nearby McDonald’s for a cup of coffee at about 6:30 a.m., when she said she dropped the prior day’s newspapers in a brown Bloomingdale’s bag into the trash can.

    She then saw somebody come charging up to her from a Sanitation Department car across the street. “I thought he was going to hit me,” she recalled.

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    Mandel
    Mandel
    12 years ago

    I really have no sympathy for people who throw bags full of junk into curbside bins. Happens all the time in my neighborhood and causes bins to overflow quickly.Yeah, next time just throw it on the ground like everyone else….

    ChuchemAtik
    ChuchemAtik
    12 years ago

    Sorry old lady, leave the paper in your apartment’s trash bin. If all old ladies dump their yesterday’s paper in the street bins there would be no room for street-bought trash. Sorry…not, that’s the way it works.

    DRE53
    DRE53
    12 years ago

    i guess the saying “nobody is above the law” applies to this old lady as well.
    it’s unfortunate that she was brought up in a time when people used to put garbage in a bag and throw it in the garbage can. nowadays people just leave their trash on the bus or train and thereby avoid getting ticketed.

    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    12 years ago

    These litter baskets are meant for litter such as cany wrappers etc. Perhaps if she was reading the paper on a park bench and disposed of it in a litter basket she would have a defense. If it was yesterdays paper in a shopping bag it would be considered “household trash”.

    12 years ago

    So you mean to say , if I buy a newspaper and read it on the train while coming home from work,, then, when I finish reading it, Im not allowed to throw in the corner garbage can?

    12 years ago

    I am beginning to understand Mayor Bloomberg and his plan for NYC. He is engaged in the holy task of creating jobs. Soon, there will be a sanitation cop stationed near every corner trashcan to be sure that all garbage deposited meets the criteria as non-household and non-business garbage. I guess it is still permissible for dog owners who clean up after their pets to deposit it in the bins. Perhaps same applies for gum wrappers. But if it can be placed in bins at home or work, these cops will earn NYC $100.

    Next, he will hire more officers to be sure that less than 30 seconds lapse from parking a car until feeding the meter. Each officer could patrol about 1 block. These officers will be flanked by at least two others to arrest anyone verbally challenging the ticket agent on charges of assaulting a police officer.

    There can then be additional officers stationed at trees near bars and parks to insure that no one urinates outside, especially in the dead of night.

    Don’t you all realized that he is reducing unemployment. What a tzaddik!

    12 years ago

    These Sanitation agents should go after people who let their dogs mess up the sidewalk, or who don’t clean up after their dogs. While staying in Flatbush this weekend, I noticed scores of homes, (which the Sanitation Dept. which had previously collected the garbage from), which had garbage barrels strewn all over the sidewalks. The Sanitation workers were simply too lazy to place those receptacles right side up, and away from the sidewalk, where people have to walk!

    basmelech
    basmelech
    12 years ago

    I would think the receptacles are for any type of litter including newspapers. If you’re out of your apartment and have some trash in your hand you should be allowed to dispose of it. Of course it’s not for your whole garbage pail, but, a newspaper? Why not? New York is going to the dogs!

    Reb Yid
    Reb Yid
    12 years ago

    The old joke was, “New York City–where you can get away with murder–unless you do it in a car parked in front of a fire hydrant”

    I guess the new joke is, “New York City–where it’s illegal to put your garbage in…a garbage”

    12 years ago

    This is just plain stupid. Throw it on the ground and it is okay. When I was a kid NYC especially the Bronx was know as Garbage land since there was garbage over all the streets; there is bins now to bin it and they fine people: Crazy

    12 years ago

    I’m living in Chelm.