Student fined $628 for sitting in a park

Watch out, Montrealers: if you sit anywhere in a park other than on a park bench, you could be risking a $628 fine. At least, that's what it seems after Brendan Colin Jones, a 25-year-old Concordia student, was fined for sitting on a marble ledge in Émilie Gamelin Park (also known as Berri Square). Jones' official citation is for "using urban equipment for uses other than those intended," which seems particularly absurd considering that the park's ledges are designed to be sat on, and there are almost always dozens of people making use of them.