I hope this never happens in Chicago

Really?

What's up in NYC these days?

Scandal' bars bike bust : Cop cites gal for tote-bag 'hazard'

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on April 17, 2011 at 1:16pm

WTF? I sure hope that doesn't happen here.

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on April 17, 2011 at 3:06pm

Glad to see the cops are starting to pay attention.

As a prep-school executive with a name like hers (i.e. privileged and white) she should have known that picking up her kid from school requires a smug-mobile, not a Dahon.

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Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on April 17, 2011 at 3:42pm

NEXT UP:

NYC taxpayers sue NYPD for wasting their money. Stay tuned. (I wish.)

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 18, 2011 at 4:31am

Yikes. The brass in NYC has really got the hate on for bicycles lately. I'm afraid that sooner or later is will happen here too.

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Permalink Reply by Gort 12-mile Pinklegneep on April 18, 2011 at 5:00am

It's kind of baffling that the officer told her straight up that the ticket was frivolous while he was writing it.

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Permalink Reply by Joel on April 18, 2011 at 5:03am

This says it all,

When she protested, she said the officer comforted her by adding, "Don't worry, you can go to court. The judges always throw these out."

Nothing more than a cyclist-hating cop who is willing to waste the city's time and money to make someone's day worse.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Doom on April 18, 2011 at 5:09am

I refuse to believe that there is actually someone named Claire Lecomte du Nouy. That roughly translates to Lady Hermione Snootypants Threepwood-Davenport.

Also, this really isn't the cop's fault. NYPD actually has ticket quotas. Some idiot somewhere probably handed down a quota on cycling citations, thus absurdities like this and the guy who got ticketed in Central Park for speeding while going 15 mph.

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on April 18, 2011 at 5:16am

You are correct. That is not her name. Her actual name is Claire Elizabeth Lecomte du Noüy.

Folks of her heritage should be portaging their belongings in a Brooks pannier, or at the very least a Basil Pannier. What has this world come to? Soon I won't be able to tell apart the transients and DUIers from the rich and wealthy

Dr. Doom said:

I refuse to believe that there is actually someone named Claire Lecomte du Nouy. That roughly translates to Lady Hermione Snootypants Threepwood-Davenport.