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This morning got a $75 ticket from NYPD Transit for "crossing between subway cars while train is in motion". Two 22-year-old rookie girls pulled me off the Q train for using the cross-car doors. One of them was so short I had to squint to find her. Of course she was the one telling me to keep my hands out of my pockets so she can see them. They asked me if I had any other transit tickets. I said I don't have any tickets. They called in Central to verify my ID and lack of tickets (!). I never had my name radioed in before -- as Verbal Kint used to say, "It made no sense that I'd be there -- those guys where hardcore hijackers. But hey -- I got to make like I was notorious". After having verified my transit ticket virginity, the older of the babies proceeded to write me a $75 citation, accompanied after completion with "here's the number to call, they usually dismiss it when it's a first offense". Then they walked away without buying me a drink saying goodbye.

Fuckin'ell, NYPD is bored. Or the City needs all the money it can get, they are going to get Bill DeBlasio for Mayor soon and boy will they need it...

PS. I am not paying this stuff on principle -- will set my old buddy Scott The Ticket Lawyer on them, even if it costs me more than the ticket itself.