Watch where you sit

Posted on September 26, 2005 by Gene

Evidently, you can now be arrested for sitting on the sidewalk:

Cindy Sheehan, the grieving California mother of a soldier slain in Iraq, was arrested today while protesting the Iraq war outside the White House.

Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son Casey was killed last year, and several dozen other protesters staged a sit-in on the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue after marching along the pedestrian walkway, the Associated Press reported. Police warned them three times that they had to move along before making arrests, the news agency said.

What I don’t understand is why someone has to move along or be arrested. How is sitting in one place for a length of time a crime?