LAPD Cracking Down on Old People Crossing Streets
Topic: Stupidity

An 82-year-old woman who was slowly crossing the street and didn't make it before the light turned green received a $114 ticket from a LAPD bike cop for obstructing traffic. It is all part of Los Angeles's "Get Out if You're Not Hot" initiative.

"I think it's completely outrageous," said the old bag, who called herself a Cherokee medicine woman. "He treated me like a 6-year-old, like I don't know what I'm doing."

The LAPD's excuse is that they're cracking down on slow walkers due to increased rates of pedestrian deaths, even though we honestly fail to see how that is the person crossing the street under the "walk" sign's fault. Maybe the bike cop should be worrying more about the speeding smug assholes in the hybrids than the old lady on the Rascal electric scooter.


AP via YAHOO! NEWS