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Here's one of those things you don't hear about every day: KTRK's Marvin Zindler reports that Metro police arrested a woman for eating animal crackers aboard a Metro bus. Seriously — the citation she received said so.
It happened a while back to Li Li Chao, a 68-year-old Chinese woman who recently became a U.S. citizen. Her son, Jimmy Zhou, said two plainclothes Metro cops busted Chao for eating the cookies: "They took her off the bus," Zhou said. "They gave her a ticket. My mom just caught the next bus." Chao called Zhou, who was in Shanghai on business; he said the experience terrified her. "She couldn't sleep for two nights — very, very scared," he told Channel 13.
Once ticketed for eating on the bus, Chao faced a $163 fine. But the whole thing was way overdone, attorney Dean Blumrosen said: "If the bus marshals wanted to enforce rules on the bus, they could have told her, 'Don't eat animal cookies on the bus' or given her a warning," he said. Apparently, municipal court officials agreed: When Zindler talked to presiding Judge Berta Mejia, she said prosecutors had decided to drop the case — which means Chao will remain an animal cracker-munching menace to society, we suppose.
"During my time in law enforcement, I made a lot of dumb arrests," Zindler, who worked for the Harris County sheriff's office in the 1960s, said. "But this is the stupidest case I've come across."
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Of course this action was excessive...BUT,do you know if she was asked not to eat on the bus and refused? Perhaps this was a last resort of the Metro Police?
I can also understand that something must have been done,or else the person with the Pizza or Hamburger when asked not to eat on the Bus would just have to claim others can eat on the Bus,why not them? It is not funny to have to sit on spilled coke or ketchup.
This something so minor that could grow into a major problem later if not enforced now.
"Couldn't sleep to two nights" ?? Really,come on now..do I smell a Lawsuit in the works?
Ray
The article seems to indicate she was never told not to.
Well, just because the article doesn't indicate she wasn't told not to doesn't mean she wasn't told not to. But you have to wonder what all went down before the woman was arrested — maybe there was some kind of language barrier, but there must be an international gesture for "Don't eat animal crackers here."