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Woman fined $100 for improper newspaper disposal

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There is ticket trouble for a woman on the Upper East Side. She says she threw away her newspapers in a city trash can and seconds later a city worker came running over yelling at her. She says she froze, and didn’t know what to do.

All Darbe Pitofsky did was toss her morning newspapers into the corner trash can, and boy, did that light a fire in a Sanitation Department supervisor.

“I was terrorized by this guy. I didn’t know what he was going to do next. He was crazed. He’s screaming at me,” Pitofsky recalls.

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