Posts To Social Media. Slammed By Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach Residents. Sued For Major Debt.
BY: STAFF REPORT | BocaNewsNow.com
DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2024 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A Delray Beach woman stopped for speeding a day before Hurricane Milton hit the west coast of Florida claims that Delray Beach Police shouldn’t be issuing tickets when a storm is anywhere near the State of Florida. She posted to NextDoor, only to be slammed by a growing number of Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, and South Florida residents who told her she’s wrong. She’s our “nextdooron” winner for Saturday.
The woman, self-identified as Karen Macina of High Point Boulevard in Delray Beach, wrote this on Wednesday: “we are just a hour away from a Category 5 hurricane so a Delray Beach cop pulls me over for speeding. He tailed me for a mile. Tells me I was pulled over in February for the same thing. I looked at him like he was crazy. I was NEVER stopped for speeding ever. Then he tells me my registration is not valid which it is. So he hands me a ticket. Way to go, officer. I’m worried about my family and you got needed to meet your quota in the worst storm ever in Florida. Im fighting the ticket. My father was NYC cop for 42 years and he would never do this in a crisis. Unreal.”
To be clear: Hurricane Milton was NEVER going to hit Delray Beach — or any part of South Florida — as a Cat 5 storm. By Wednesday when she posted this, it was clear that the system was weakening a bit and Was curving to the north. Delray Beach was under a Tropical Storm Warning, not a hurricane watch or warning. There was no “crisis.” People writing responses to her on NextDoor made it clear they believed she was out of line.
”Category 5 hitting Delray Beach in an hour? Not a good excuse to speed,” wrote one reader. “Speeding is unlawful,” wrote another. “Tell it to the judge. He should double the fine for a poor excuse. Cat 5 hurricane is not heading for Delray. Stop whining.”
The responses go on and on. Not one was sympathetic to the apparently self-induced plight of Karen Macina. We checked court records and found out that Ms. Macina allegedly owes a significant amount of money to Macy’s and Citibank, and is the midst of trying to get a court order vacated. Read the collection notice, below. Let us know what you think about police issuing speeding tickets when a storm is several hundred miles away.
That woman should have been hauled off to jail!
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