2004-07-29

javasaurus: (wedding daze)
2004-07-29 10:21 am

Candy bar on the metro

The news has been spouting that a woman was detained for 3 hours for eating a candy bar on the metro. Sheesh! talk about bad reporting!

Reading WTOP's article about the incident, the woman was eating the candy bar while entering the station, and a metro cop told her to finish the bar before entering. She plopped it into her mouth and put the wrapper into a trash can. That would have been the end of it. But she felt the need to tell the cop to "go and take care of some real crime" -- WTH? No wonder she was detained. You don't mouth off to a cop who is doing their job, unless you're looking for trouble. Yet WTOP is making her out to be the victim here.