After 39-year-old New Yorker Kimber VanRy put his sons to bed and finished the evening's chores, he retired to the front stoop of his Brooklyn brownstone to drink a bottle of beer and send messages on his BlackBerry, according to a recent New York Times article.
Not too long after he sat down, a cop car rolled up and rolled down its passenger-side window. VanRy left his stoop, walked to the car, and was issued a $25 summons for drinking in public.
VanRy, who's the president of his building's co-op, was stunned. He said he had no clue that it was illegal to drink on your front stoop. No one he knows has ever been ticketed for such an offense.
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