{"id":4919,"date":"2003-12-04T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2003-12-04T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2003-12-04T22:33:08","slug":"bad_boys_bad_bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/04\/bad_boys_bad_bo.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just keep telling yourself, “They don’t have ticket quotas … they don’t have ticket quotas … they don’t have ticket quotas … right?<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Police wrote Queens hospital worker George Pulido a summons for making unreasonable noise because his son Christopher’s Winnie the Pooh balloon popped on the street.
\n“I couldn’t believe it,” Pulido, 29, of Queens Village, said last night. “It was just a normal-size party balloon and it was an accident. You’d make more noise closing the door of a police car.”
\nPulido’s trip into the ticket twilight zone began innocently the afternoon of Nov. 22 when he took his wife, Christina, 27, an accountant, and sons, Chris, 9, and Brandon, 19 months, to a kid’s birthday party at a friend’s home in the neighborhood. Chris was holding a party balloon on a string as the family walked home when it suddenly got away from him at Parsons Blvd. and 105th St., hit the sidewalk and popped.
\n“Three cops were at the curb in a car and one of them called me over and said he was giving me a ticket,” Pulido said.
\nHe said he asked the cop, “Are you serious? You’re gonna give me a ticket for balloon popping?”
\n“The cop gave me a hard look and asked me, ‘Do you think popping a balloon is funny?'” Pulido recalled. “At that point I just said just give me the ticket…whatever.”<\/p>\n

I’m sure all the citizens of New York City can sleep more soundly tonight, knowing that the cops are on the watch for popping balloons.<\/p>\n

(via Scott<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just keep telling yourself, “They don’t have ticket quotas … they don’t have ticket quotas … they don’t have ticket quotas … right?” Police wrote Queens hospital worker George Pulido…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49773,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/07\/so-maybe-there-was-a-reason-for-the-rioting-in-ferguson.html","url_meta":{"origin":4919,"position":0},"title":"So maybe there was a reason for the rioting in Ferguson","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 7-Mar-15 5:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"The infamous Michael Brown shooting -- right, wrong, or indifferent -- was just one in a long series of incidents where the police not only engaged in racist behavior, but treated the population largely as a revenue-generating body, the more fines and citations the better (and the closer to meeting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1240,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/08\/its_not_a_quota.html","url_meta":{"origin":4919,"position":1},"title":"“It’s not a quota, it’s a performance standard.”","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Feb-02 7:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"Denver's parking meter enforcers have to write a minimum of 75 tickets per day (150 on street-sweeping days). 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