NYC Gov’t Sends Legal Threat To Artist For Telling People How To Use Traffic Cams To Take Selfies

Few things seem to push government officials to become officious faster than the mild irritation of people making a slight mockery of government machinery. In the grand scheme of things, the scofflawishness is almost imperceptible. But it’s the scoffing part that bothers these officious entities the most. And that is almost always greeted with a pettiness inversely proportionate to the original acts that put these particularly irritating burrs under the government’s saddle.

And so it is here...