Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Canadian Law Enforcement

Wow. Just...wow.

Anyone who has ridden an escalator and bothered to pay attention has seen – and likely ignored – little signs suggesting riders hold the grimy handrail.

Bela Kosoian, a 38-year-old mother of two, says when she didn't hold the handrail Wednesday she was cuffed, dragged into a small holding cell and fined.

Travelling down the escalator, she was looking for her fare in her bag when a police officer told her to hold the rail. When she told him she didn't have three hands he demanded to see her ID so that he could write her a ticket. That's when she argued with him.

The officers handcuffed her and threw her into a small holding cell. The officers searched her bag and gave her a $100 ticket for failing to hold the banister and another $320 ticket for obstruction.

The handcuffs bruised Ms. Kosoian's wrists and an officer's boot scraped skin off the top of her foot.

I guess Canada has solved all of the really serious crime for police to concentrate on matters like this.

And note too that her original "crime" is considered to warrant a lesser fine than her refusal to kowtow to the cop's authority.

2 comments:

straightarrow said...

Cowards do that. You couldn't melt that motherless son and pour him on a bad guy.

kahr40 said...

Obviously has too much time on his hands.