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By Nina Mandell
DNAinfo Producer/Reporter
The NYPD has a clear message to MTA riders: Watch your tush.
New York subway riders were given 8,700 tickets for taking up more than one seat in 2009 — 1300 more than they issued over the previous year, the New York Daily News reported.
The NYPD wouldn’t explain the increase in the tickets, but tickets in every other category declined or were flat last year.
Adrian Johnson, a 20-year-old who reclined on a bench in a nearly-empty G train station in Brooklyn was fined $50.
“It’s not something I thought I would get fined for,” he told the Daily News. “It’s not something I think I should get fined for.”