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NYPD Tickets Men For Playing Chess In Children's Park

DateWednesday, November 17, 2010 at 9:40PM

  Inwood residents were outraged by the recent ticketing of chess players at the Inwood Hill Part chess tables.

A group of seven mild-mannered chess players are due in criminal court next month after police officers from the 34th Precinct issued them summonses for playing their favorite board game in Inwood Hill Park. 

The men were ticketed on Oct. 20 for being inside of Emerson Playgroud, a children's play area off limits to adults unaccompanied by minors. But the men were in an area furnished with stone chess and backgammon tables — separated from the play area by a fence. - DNAinfo Read More

What on earth could validate this nonsense?  Is it just because of quotas?  Why bother these men?



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