What is going on in Washington?

**techs** · July 29th, 2004, 02:50 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...y_bar_arrest_1

Woman Arrested, Cuffed for Eating Candy

A government scientist finishing a candy bar on her way into a subway station where eating is prohibited was arrested, handcuffed and detained for three hours by transit police.

If she had stopped eating, it would have been the end of it and if she had just stopped for the issuance of a citation, she never would have been locked up," Transit Police Chief Polly Hanson said Thursday.

Metrorail has been criticized in the past for heavy-handed enforcement of the eating ban. In 2000, a police officer handcuffed a 12-year-old girl for eating a french fry on a subway platform.

In 2002, one of their officers ticketed a wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy patient for cursing when he was unable to find a working elevator to leave a station. Unflattering publicity eventually led the police to void the ticket

**Mindwarp** · July 29th, 2004, 03:18 PM

It's a sad sad world.

**Ya_know** · July 30th, 2004, 07:07 AM

You will respect my authority!

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**Archer** · July 30th, 2004, 07:39 AM

Authority gone mad geez your law makers need to get a life.Next you'll be saying they can only burn witches on Wednesdays.

**Khazad** · July 30th, 2004, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by Archer

Authority gone mad geez your law makers need to get a life.Next you'll be saying they can only burn witches on Wednesdays.

they don't burn witches, they make them presidential advisors

**Archer** · July 30th, 2004, 08:16 AM

I thought they were morelock's?

**amyb** · July 30th, 2004, 11:44 AM

I agree that the Metro police went extreme in jailing her, however, she is at fault also. It's not like this was her first time travelling Metro. There are signs everywhere stating the no eating rule.