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Nanny State

Brooklyn Gals Ticketed for Eating Doughnuts at a Playground

Matt Welch | 6.7.2011 11:58 AM

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They were technically in the wrong, and not the most sympathetic of characters, but this Gothamist story is a microcosm of a world gone at least slightly insane.

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