Breastfeeding Mother Fighting Ticket & Was Nearly Towed
A New York mother is fighting a $115 parking ticket she received while breastfeeding her 3-week old daughter. The mother says she was frantic to feed her crying, hungry child…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JANUARY 21: A parking ticket is seen on the windshield of a FedEx truck on January 21, 2011 in San Francisco, California. In an effort to eliminate a projected $21.2 million budget deficit by June 30, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has ordered parking and traffic officers to write more parking tickets and plans to reduce employee overtime. San Francisco’s parking fines are the most expensive of all big cities in the U.S. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)A New York mother is fighting a $115 parking ticket she received while breastfeeding her 3-week old daughter.
The mother says she was frantic to feed her crying, hungry child and pulled into a commercial parking zone. While she was in her van's backseat, nursing on one side and pumping on the other, an NYPD tow truck pulled up to tow her.
She says she had to honk her van's horn cause the officer was about to tow her vehicle without even checking for passengers. Once the officer walked up to the vehicle, she told him she was breastfeeding. He then laid a $115 parking ticket on her van's window. She's fighting the ticket and is asking for help from breastfeeding advocates.
