Pennsylvania Woman Narrowly Escapes Ticket By Philly Sanitation Police While Actively Cleaning Home: 'They don’t clean up the trash but give tickets when residents clean'

A Pennsylvania woman took to TikTok to share her disappointment and frustration with Philadelphia’s “sanitation police.” While cleaning her yard, she had been suddenly approached by a member of the sanitation department who was on the verge of giving her a ticket. TikTok user Dallassparks50 posted the encounter online in multiple parts. Dallas had expressed in her video she was in the midst of clearing her yard of debris and bagging it. She placed the trash bags in front of her house, still in her garden and not where trash pickup is. The sanitation employee is seen poking at the trash bags with his foot. He sees Dallas in her yard and asks her to confirm if it’s trash or grass. “I was about to give you a ticket,” the employee says. When Dallas asks why, given that she was right there actively cleaning, he admits he thought it was trash. Dallas adds commentary to the clip: “But it’s sitting in my garden, y’all.

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