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Uppity_peasant Posts: 3118 Incept: 2009-06-26 Online	Couple, 54 and 55, arrested and spent 23 hours in jail for DANCING at train platform Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-.... Quote: A two-stepping couple in their 50s say were trotted off to jail after police in New York City arrested them for dancing on a subway platform. Caroline Stern, a dentist, and George Hess, a movie prop master, were waiting for a train at the Columbus Circle station after a late evening at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night’s Swing last year when they began dancing the Charleston to a musician playing the steel drums. Ms Stern says she and her boyfriend were feeling the beat and there were very few people on the platform so they started moving to the rhythm. That's when police came in and spoiled the fun, they told the New York Post. 'They said, "What are you doing?" and we said, "We’re dancing,"' she recalled. 'And they said, "You can’t do that on the platform."' The officers demanded their ID. When Ms Stern only had a credit card, the police ordered the couple to go with them. When Mr Hess pulled out a camera to start recording the incident, the officers called for backup and the situation turned nasty, the couple says. They claim more police ran to the subway platform and tackled Mr Hess, 54, to the floor and handcuffed him. Ms Stern, 55, was also cuffed and arrested. Officers charged them with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for 'impeding the flow of traffic.' Ms Stern told the Post the subway station was nearly empty at the time. 'It was absolutely ridiculous that this happened,' she said. Prosecutors dropped all charges against the couple, though not before they spent 23 hours in jail. As a result, Ms Stern and Mr Hess are now suing the city of New York for the arrest. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-.... Can you IMAGINE? A peasant wanting to FILM his betters in the performance of their heroic, underpaid jobs? His filming could have interfered with them saving a kitten, or maybe buying cookies for an underprivileged yute... ---------- ==== If it's true that "assault weapons" are "weapons of war" and don't belong on the streets of America, why do the police need them? Who are the police at war with? 2012-07-08 23:21:00 Permalink
Rjazz117 Posts: 17802 Incept: 2007-09-11	The English language just does not have adequate words to properly denounce this atrocity. Seriously...WTF? ---------- “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson 2012-07-08 23:33:51 Permalink
Bozonian Posts: 19889 Incept: 2007-09-01 Saratoga Springs, New York	Please, please try something like that with me. My retirement fund could use the money and NYC probably has the deepest pockets in the nation. ---------- Forget about blaming, fighting with, or crediting other people. The only real challenge in life, is with yourself. -- Me Everything I write is my opinion and not to be considered proven fact. Nothing I write should be considered financial advice. 2012-07-09 00:05:25 From PDA Permalink
Ben Posts: 6218 Incept: 2009-10-09 The Distant, Glorious, Past	My entire youth has been retroactively criminalised. No dancing on Subway Platforms? In the 80's we called those 'Raves'. ---------- "Why are you going to learn French?" "Because I'm going to France," says Joe. "I'm from the future. You should go to China." 2012-07-09 01:21:41 Permalink