Delia Gluckin, 80, had just left her Manhattan apartment for the subway when she tossed a newspaper into a city trash can on the sidewalk.

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Delia Gluckin, 80, had just left her Manhattan apartment for the subway when she tossed a newspaper into a city trash can on the sidewalk. Observing the incident, an alert Department of Sanitation worker immediately gave the octogenarian a $100 ticket for tossing "improper...