{"id":688,"date":"2006-04-12T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T17:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=688"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:43:37","slug":"senior-ticketed-for-taking-too-long-to-cross-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/04\/12\/senior-ticketed-for-taking-too-long-to-cross-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior ticketed for taking too long to cross street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/olmedia\/1715000\/images\/_1717323_woman_walking150.jpg\" \/>Gotta love this &#8212; an old lady crossing the street in Los Angeles gets a ticket from a motorcycle cop because she was too slow. It&#8217;s still early in 2006, but this copper should be nominated for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=%22Asshole+of+the+Year%22&#038;sourceid=mozilla-search&#038;start=0&#038;start=0&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\">Asshole-of-the-Year<\/a> award.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayvis Coyle, 82, was shuffling with her cane across busy Foothill Boulevard while a traffic police officer watched and waited. And watched and waited.<\/p>\n<p>Even before Coyle finished crossing the intersection at Woodward Avenue, he had scribbled a $114 ticket for crossing against a don&#8217;t-walk signal. &#8220;I entered the crosswalk, it was green,&#8221; said Coyle, of Sunland, who is fighting the infraction issued Feb. 15. &#8220;It turned red before I could get over. There he was, waiting, the motorcycle cop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said, `You&#8217;re obstructing the flow of traffic.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/search\/ci_3692441\">Read the rest of the article<\/a> on the <em>LA Daily News<\/em> web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta love this &#8212; an old lady crossing the street in Los Angeles gets a ticket from a motorcycle cop because she was too slow. It&#8217;s still early in 2006, but this copper should be nominated for the Asshole-of-the-Year award. 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