specialK wrote: ] Here's something really stupid from CNN: ] ] Subway rider arrested for eating candy ] ] WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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. ] ] Stephanie Willett said she was eating a PayDay bar on an ] escalator descending into a station July 16 when an officer ] warned her to finish it before entering the station. Both ] Willett and police agree that she nodded and put the last bit ] into her mouth before throwing the wrapper into a trash can. ] ] Willett, a 45-year-old Environmental Protection Agency ] scientist, told radio station WTOP that the officer then ] followed her into the station, one of several in downtown ] Washington. WTF? Somehow, something seems missing from this story. Otherwise, the Seinfeld soup nazi has taken up a new job in a new city. RE: Subway rider arrested for eating candy |