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By MONICA MORALES

pix11.com

5:56 p.m. EDT, June 10, 2011

BROOKLYN, NY (PIX11)—

There's cell phone video circulating online of a peculiar bust in Brooklyn. It depicts an N.Y.P.D. officer giving three people citations inside Lafayette Gardens Playground on Franklin Avenue this Saturday, for being inside a City playground, without a child.

"They were just eating donuts. Come on!" said a woman eating a sandwich on the same bench inside the now infamous playground.

When PIX11 News told her she was breaking a city rule and could face a fifty-dollar fine if caught, she said, "Really? Call the police."

The news of the unusual bust spread to other customers of the popular donut shop on Franklin Avenue, called Dough.

"It's crazy really. But I guess the officers were just doing their job," said one of the managers at Dough.

"Any officer that comes in, we will give them a free donut," promised another worker at the shop.

Some parents say they appreciate the rule and say it protects kids from possible predators. "We don't want weird people near our children," said one mom, happily eating a donut with her kid in the park.

Copyright © 2011, WPIX-TV

Let me see if I understand this correctly, If you're accompanied by your child you can enter the park but if not then you're subject to a citation and have the other parents look at you like you're some kind of predator? What about the idiot parents that take their kids to the park and play the perfect mother or father while in public and then treats them like dirt when they get home, to me this is worse than someone eating their donuts. :rolleyes:

The cops just hate to see anyone else enjoying a donut! They feel like those people are infringing on their territory! ;)

Let me see if I understand this correctly, If you're accompanied by your child you can enter the park but if not then you're subject to a citation and have the other parents look at you like you're some kind of predator? What about the idiot parents that take their kids to the park and play the perfect mother or father while in public and then treats them like dirt when they get home, to me this is worse than someone eating their donuts. :rolleyes:

As my sister would say, "That's messed up!" :confused: :rolleyes: :mad:

The cops just hate to see anyone else enjoying a donut! They feel like those people are infringing on their territory! ;)

Good one, Marv.:lol:

Let me see if I understand this correctly, If you're accompanied by your child you can enter the park but if not then you're subject to a citation and have the other parents look at you like you're some kind of predator? What about the idiot parents that take their kids to the park and play the perfect mother or father while in public and then treats them like dirt when they get home, to me this is worse than someone eating their donuts. :rolleyes:
Yea that's ridiculous. We have 2 parks here in town and I go down there now and then. Some of these laws are all screwed up. Like you can't be a perv if you have kids. :ohno:

The cops just hate to see anyone else enjoying a donut! They feel like those people are infringing on their territory! ;)

^This... :lol:

So PIX called the cops on her just to make a news story that they could cover?

That is the most f-d up thing about that.

Seems like it would be unconstitutional to not allow someone into a public park simply because they don't happen to have a child with them.

Does that go for senior citizens as well? Would they have to bring their grown children with them if they wanted to sit on a park bench there and have a donut? "Honest, Officer, this man is my son!"

Wonder what would happen if someone passed a law saying no gays can go to a particular park? Or better yet, "No Muslims allowed"?

Let me see if I understand this correctly, If you're accompanied by your child you can enter the park but if not then you're subject to a citation and have the other parents look at you like you're some kind of predator? What about the idiot parents that take their kids to the park and play the perfect mother or father while in public and then treats them like dirt when they get home, to me this is worse than someone eating their donuts. :rolleyes:
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The cops just hate to see anyone else enjoying a donut! They feel like those people are infringing on their territory! ;)

:rofl:

Another dim-witted response by those of the NYPD that are lazy do-nothings. Hate saying this but imo New York City is going to hell in a handbasket. As soon as I'm 62 (God willing) and have enough service time on my job, and get a buy out on my apartment, I'm outta this expensive, smelly and WAAAAAY overcrowded city with a transit system that gets worse and worse and WORSE.

Sadly, that old cliche is true, NYC is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live here. At least not me now. Just biding my time.....

This woman should fight this!

It seems that if you're single, you can't even be anywhere by a school nor park because they'll label you as a preadator!ohno:

Yeah, that was a weird law.

As a single, childless woman I would fight this. Our rights are being trampled on!!!!! (I guess the single and childless don't have a very big lobby!!)

As a single, childless woman I would fight this. Our rights are being trampled on!!!!! (I guess the single and childless don't have a very big lobby!!)
As a fellow single childless person I'll gladly join you in the fight!