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Title: Woman Arrested and Fined for Not Holding Escalator Handrail
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Published: May 25, 2009
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Post Date: 2009-05-25 14:16:42 by freepatriot32
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Keywords: Woman Arrested, Fined, Escalator Handrail, jackbooted thugs
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If true, a disgusting example of excessive police force: A Montreal/Laval cop cuffed and dragged a university student away, throwing her in a holding cell and writing her a ticket for CDN$420 ...for failing to hold the handrail while she dug in her bag for her subway fare. Bela Kosoian, a 38-year-old mother of two, says when she didn't hold the handrail Wednesday she was cuffed, dragged into a small holding cell and fined. "It was horrible, disgusting behaviour [by police]," said Ms. Kosoian, a 38-year-old student of international law. "I did nothing wrong. They should go find the guys who stole my tires off the balcony." Ms. Kosoian, who studies at the Université du Québec à Montreal, was riding an escalator down to catch a 5:30 p.m. subway from the suburb of Laval to an evening class downtown when she started rifling through her backpack looking for a fare. Ms. Kosoian, who grew up in Georgia when it was still part of the Soviet Union, says she didn't catch the officer's instruction to hold the rail when he first approached. When he told her again to hang on, she says she replied, "I don't have three hands." Besides, she had been sick and feared catching a new bug. Woman cuffed for not holding escalator handrail (Image: John Morstad/For The Globe and Mail)
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#1. To: All, *libertarians*, *Humor-Weird News* (#0)
Party on!
The police are simply enforcing laws which an increasingly intrusive political bureaucracy keeps foisting on the masses. Some turkey fell on his head by not holding onto the rail so now everyone has to hang on. As Shakespeare noted the dim bulbs making up the police, and the bureaucratic "regulators," don't have the ability to exercise discretion and really are not in a position to do so once a regulation is on the books.
but the sheiks would shriek and the barons would bellow if hemp was made legal...and people became mellow
#2. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
a 38-year-old student of international law.
I've already said too much.
#3. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
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