Cops have found an unusual way to wrangle parking-ticket cash in Queens.
This mounted NYPD officer turned an Astoria street into a scene from “High Noon” on Thursday, as he moseyed on up to one parked car and wrote up an alternate-side parking violation without ever leaving the saddle.
The cowboy cop didn’t even remove his spurred boots from the stirrups as he leaned down from atop his mount and tucked the $45 summons under the windshield wiper (right) of the PT Cruiser just after 10 a.m. on 41st Street, between 31st Avenue and Broadway.
Residents say the neighborhood is regularly patrolled by this Lone Ranger — although no one had ever seen him issue a ticket before.
Still, folks in these parts seem to have gotten the message about illegal parking: The Cruiser was the only car sitting on the wrong side of that stretch of 41st Street.
“Police officers (mounted officers included) enforce the law, including but not limited to, arrests and issuing summonses,” an NYPD spokesperson said when asked about its one-man Astoria parking-enforcement posse.
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