Milk crates in NYC. And other lawbreaking strategies. My next challenge was to tempt the same fate that overtook Jesse Taveras, who sat on a milk crate outside the hair salon in the Bronx which is his place of employment and was fined $105 for “unauthorized use” of said crate. If you look closely at a milk crate, you will see an inscription confining its use to the crating of milk bottles and cartons by its owner, so don’t go using a crate as a safety razor, say, or a contraceptive. If you see a fleeing thief, don’t push a milk crate into his path, to lend a hand to the pursuing cop. (Thieves are exhausting to pursue, whereas men sitting on milk crates tell a lazy cop that he’s added another collar to his day’s “performance measurement.” And it’s the lazy cops who thrive under this dispensation, which has been protested loudly by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. Indeed, the cop who cited Mr. Nazario for feeding those pigeons later came by his apartment and voided the ticket.) I took my crate to the sidewalk outside the Strand bookstore on Broadway, where there are bookshelves. This attracts all kinds of untidiness, such as browsers, but it seems to be tolerated for the moment. I like to browse but don’t like to stand up, so I seized a book and sat down. As I did so, I noticed quite a few unoccupied and empty milk crates already on the scene. vanityfair/politics/features/2004/02/hitchens200402#
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