NY Cops
The excessive desire to give out tickets in NY has been in the news a lot, at least here in NY. Yesterday, when we were loading the cars after the bris, we had four cars - 2 parked in the no-parking zone in front of the shul, and 2 double parked. A traffic enforcement cop came along, and to my shock, came to a stop in front on the second parked car, and proceeded to get out with her ticket book. I went up to her to explain that we were simply loading the cars with the leftovers and other stuff from an "event," and would be moving along shortly. I even offered to move my car (and have the others moved) as well. She thought about it for entirely too long before deciding that it would be OK, as long as I stayed with my car. The fact that obviously I was staying with my car in order to have noticed her getting ready to ticket me was lost on her.