Here from the Park Slope Parents email list forwarded to us by a community-minded PSP member who keeps us supplied, is a riveting question about getting a ticket for drinking wine in Prospect Park and coop board approval:
My friend got a ticket today in Prospect Park for being at a small 8-person picnic gathering where there was one wine bottle out in the open. 4 cops came up and gave everyone a ticket for alcohol possession. Does anyone know if this type of ticket is easy to fight? She wasn’t drinking any wine nor does she drink in general. Also, as a side note she is trying to purchase a co-op apartment and is soon going to be reviewed by the co-op approval board. Should she worry about this citation?
Four cops on one bottle of wine? Was it a French, an Italian or a California? In terms of the coop board, a good wine should go over well, but if it’s nondescript stuff, it could be trouble.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Marie // Jul 7, 2008 at 9:38 am
Spells the end of civilization, or what was left of it.
2 local mom // Jul 7, 2008 at 10:33 am
This is seriously lazy journalism; You just sit back and wait for the emails to be forwarded to you… Wow!
3 Mike // Jul 7, 2008 at 10:34 am
This is not legally a crime, it’s a civil violation (a classification below misdemeanors). The coop board will probably only ask whether she’s been convicted of a crime. Not a big deal.
4 Frank // Jul 7, 2008 at 10:50 am
hahaha jeez.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/
5 Red Hook // Jul 7, 2008 at 11:33 am
She could fight it. It might be thrown out by the magistrate.
6 bored at work // Jul 7, 2008 at 11:44 am
or it might not.
Ever hear of pouring the wine into plastic cups and hiding the bottle?
7 DW // Jul 7, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Ah, another fine whine. Typical for this blog.
Pay the damned $25, and save the court fight for bigger and weightier things.
8 Agreed // Jul 7, 2008 at 9:37 pm
– Exactly “plastic cups and hiding the bottle” !!!
– Agreed with the “Lazy journalism” comment, too bad this blog has sometimes some good stuff… In another hand come on people, this site is free right?
– Laughed to “Pay the damned $25”
– My 3 cents: get a roof/garden or move to the surbubs if u want to drink in your garden
– Sometimes a blog is just about the comments posted by anonymous! 🙂