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Lara Tepper, exonerated ticket forger.
Tepper says that when she arrived at Penn Station, "like 15 cops" were waiting, and they escorted her to a 6-foot-by-6-foot holding cell at the MTA police's offices in the station. She tells Newsday, "At this point, I was hysterical, because I realized what was going on." Police told her she could be fingerprinted, spend the night in the cell and face a judge in the morning. But eventually, a lieutenant took her ticket to a veteran LIRR conductor, who scratched the back of the ticket to reveal a hidden MTA logo. Cops then checked with the LIRR Hicksville office, where it was confirmed that the ticket was printed on a stock that had been out of circulation for years. Oopsy!
More than three hours after she boarded the train, Tepper was released with an apology and a brand new 10-trip ticket! But her attorney says that's not good enough; he just filed a suit seeking $500,000 in damages, and says the whole affair was "quite a lot of overkill."
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How about as a settlement she gets to drive the train for a couple of miles? Oh yeah, you have to be a middle-aged accountant with a tidy mustache from Commack to get that sort of treatment...
that lawsuit is "quite alot of overkill" $500K FOR WHAT?? missing out on salad and getting drunk at a lame bar in LES?
BOLLOCKS.
But MTA/LIRR fails too. That is a given
An "honest mistake" is making her pay for a ticket and refunding her money.
They elevated it from "honest mistake" when they called the NYPD in and she was threatened with arrest and processing and jail. Don't blame her for trying to pull down a quick $100k settlement, honestly. I would. So would you.
You bet your ass I would sue.
Fire the schmuck who used the wrong paper.
It's good they didn't strip search her in that 6ft x 6ft cell. I hope she wins.
I would have sued for one TRILLION!
yes, that's right! extreme emotional distress!
Way to go. One trillion dollars ought to do it. http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
Ah, the NYPD. Always doing whatever's easiest instead of what's right.
Actually, I take that back. It wasn't the NYPD. Ah well, same applies to most cops.
Did you read that story in Newsday about the sheriff's deputy upstate who yanked a mother out of her minivan and then tasered her? All for a couple of bogus charges that the DA dismissed, including driving 50 in a 45 zone (which the deputy says he knew by following her for a while, not by using a radar gun). Gotta love cops.
Yes I did. Cop having a bad day takes it out on innocent mother with kids in the car. Lovely really.
Why might I ask she wasn't sodomized and given a strip search after and before the event? Isn't that normal for the organization?
she should be glad she wasn't shot 41 times.
this is bullllllllshit.
$500k for an honest mistake? Come on now. . . We've all be "delayed" in some fashion in NYC.
Honest mistake,yes. But what about the actions of the police involved? I can think of a dozen scenarios where this situation could have been handled more appropriately. They forcefully stopped an honest woman and locked her in a cell. Sorry, please enjoy this voucher for a few free rides. I hope she wins.
delayed? are you joking? she was not delayed. there was no delay in this story. she was ARRESTED! Arressted and delayed are to very different things. if you were stopped by a small army of cops on your way somewhere and told you were going to jail, im sure you would not call it being delayed. dont be a moron!
Sometimes things happen.
She'll get something, maybe 10 grand. She does have a good case but half a mil is overkill.
There are lawyer fees you know.
What makes her case valid is that the LIRR has a mechanism in place (the 'secret' hologram on the back) that they didn't use. If the original conductor or the police knew what they were doing, a quick check of the ticket would have solved all of this.
"the conductor came to punch her ticket, "She looked at it, felt it for a couple of minutes, and said it's fake."
Is there any description of this perp?
"took her ticket to a veteran LIRR conductor, who scratched the back of the ticket to reveal a hidden MTA logo" PRESTO instant $500,000 winner. Fuck the MTA, they have the hidden numbers and don't want to pay out? Screw them and the assholes that work there.
The MTA has great people who work hard everyday. You need to be more trusting with the numbers. Everything is legit and on the level.
Good to know that we're not devolving into a non-democratic police state where police can detain you because of an overzealous LIRR conductor.
Lawsuits are usually b.s., but this one is worthy.
Betcha dollars to donuts the MTA has a fake ticket bounty, giving conductors cash incentive to turn people in. Otherwise this would've been your basic "whatever" moment. ("Ah, crap, y'know what? My card is empty." "Whatever...")
I hope she scores big with this. She should have been released immediately and issued a ticket. The RR could have settled this for a free monthly ticket, but they haven't got any common sense.
So the LIRR is selling scratch and win lottery tickets? Big deal.
If I was this chick, I'd say screw the $500K... I'd settle for $0 if they'd fire the schmucky conductor who started this whole mess.
Then you would be talking the fat Al and all his shit.
That conductor and MTA officers should all be sodomized with broomsticks by the NYPD.
I wonder why our fares keep increasing? BS Lawsuits maybe, they get settled or go to court and the juries side with the rider.
drunk man falls down onto tracks loses his leg...7 mil.
lirr and metro north rides cant step over a 8 in gap...20+ mil
give this women free lirr for 1 yr, she was held for 2 HOURS (- 1 hr for train ride), big deal.
I find it hard to believe that this woman is only 25.
31 replies and not one 'I'd hit that'. Shocking.
Well they did only supply a head shot. I'm with you though..... amazing.
Yeah, I'd "detain" that.
She's orange.
isn't everyone from LI orange?
Yes, there is something in the water. Look at Lindsey Lohan.
Fuck these BS lawsuits!
She should get a few extra tickets, and that's all.
Fuck you. Go spend the night in jail and tell us how you like it.
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