Woman arrested, handcuffed for eating candy bar in subway station

[baldguy]

http://www.canada.com/news/oddities/story.html?id=e9d72198-af82-4ece-b57e-99a5ccee5b00

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Stephanie Willett said she was eating a PayDay bar on an escalator descending into a station July 16 when an officer warned her to finish it before entering the station. Both Willett and police agree that she nodded and put the last bit into her mouth before throwing the wrapper into a trash can.

Willett, a 45-year-old Environmental Protection Agency scientist, told radio station WTOP that the officer then followed her into the station, one of several in downtown Washington.

"Don't you have some other crimes you have to take care of?" Willett said she told the officer.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. You're not allowed to eat in Subway stations?

What the hell? And they actually have the cops watch for this? That's ridiculous. Can a candy wrapper blow up? Are they worried that she was going to set the candy wrapper on fire?
Duckie

[kixot]

2. I don't understand.

So, she acknowledged the cop, finished it before entering the station, and she was arrested ANYWAY??? What part of this am I missing? Was there actually a crime commited to warrant the arrest?