NYC Ticket Says Man Ran Light in Rowboat 

WESTTOWN, N.Y. - According to New York City's traffic office, Russell Falkena 
 ran a red light on Manhattan's West Side, in his rowboat.

Falkena, 46, of  Westtown in upstate Orange County, recently received a $50 
traffic ticket in the  mail for running a light in December. The notice 
included photographs of the  vehicle and its license plate captured by traffic 
cameras that monitor  Manhattan's intersections.

It turns out the plate number on the ticket  matches those on the 
registration for Falkena's aluminum rowboat, which he says  hadn't left his yard in years.

Plus, Falkena says, he was returning from  a trip out West at the time he was 
supposedly ignoring the city's traffic  laws.

But this West Side story has a happy ending. A city official told  the 
Middletown Times Herald-Record that the ticket will be  dismissed.


 
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