83 Year Old Fined For Crossing Street Too Slowly

[matcom]

<snip>

AN 83-year-old woman who was fined for crossing the road too slowly has had the ticket torn up following community outrage, reports have said.

Pensioner Pat Gallen, who uses a walking stick to get around, was fined $30 for failing to cross a road in her hometown of Malanda in far north Queensland "in the most direct route," The Daily Telegraph reported.

"She didn't know whether to laugh or cry," her friend Fay Millist said.

"Everyone thought the whole thing was so wrong in the first place for someone of that age."

Police said the ticket, which had been issued by officers who were passing through the town, had been torn up.

"Taking into account all the circumstances of the case and the public interest it was decided to have the ticket withdrawn," Mareeba District Inspector Rolf Straatemeier told the Cairns Post.

Gallen said she would have fought the ticket in court.
"But the matter has been resolved, the police have apologised, everyone has had a laugh and now we can forget about it," she told the paper.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16843198-13762,00.html

[Scooter24]

1. LOL

Oh my...

Where do you come up with these?

:rofl:

[Bassic]

2. Jesus Christ there are some DUMB cops in the world.

Actually, not jsut some I'm afraid.

[Shell Beau]

3. What is an 83 year old lady to do? Damn she

was probably going as fast as her little legs would take her.

[MissHoneychurch]

4. ya neva know

what she might do with her walking stick ... those old ladies can be dangerous :eyes:

[Jim__]

5. My bet as to what happened.

She was crossing in front of the cops' car and they got pissed at having to wait for her to get out of the way.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Maybe more of these will serve as a warning to other old people

that they and their slow waking, slow driving, slow shopping, slow to get the goddamn 32 exact goddamn cents out of their purses in the express lane, are not wanted in this culture and that they should stay home, invisible and forgotten by a world they no longer comprehend.