Post Headline Of The Day

The Post headline of the day is “Do You Believe This Sit?!”:

A ride home on the F train doubled the cost of Samantha Hoover’s groceries — after a cop wrote her a $50 ticket for putting the plastic bag on the seat next to her.

Sitting on the “mostly empty” Brooklyn-bound train Friday evening, Hoover, 33, said she tried to read a magazine, but her thoughts wandered between her day at work and the steak dinner she and her fiancé were going to prepare when she got home.

“Next thing I know, a police officer walks up and wants to know if I’ve ever been arrested,” said Hoover. “He asked for my identification and said, ‘You can’t put your bag there.'”

Hoover’s life as an outlaw was made possible by new MTA subway rules — prohibiting activities such as roller-skating or walking between cars, not to mention putting bags on seats.

They supplemented earlier restrictions on smoking and panhandling.

Taking up more than one seat had always been an offense punishable with a fine. But until now, it was enforced only against people sprawled across several seats.

Officer Mohammad Ishrat told Hoover to leave the train with him at the Jay Street/Borough Hall stop so he could check whether there were any warrants for her arrest, she said.

“I have had a couple of parking tickets,” she later confessed.

Instead, she tried to argue that her Whole Foods bag had not made any impact on the rest of the passengers.

“The train was empty,” Hoover said she told the cop.

Ishrat pointed at the plastic Whole Foods bag and explained it didn’t matter, she said. He then boosted the $46.73 she spent on steak, vegetables, strawberries and snacks with a $50 fine.

The NYPD did not return a call seeking comment.