There's a story at news.com.au about an 83-old woman with a walking stick getting fined for "crossing the street too slowly."

Police recently issued a $30 fine to aged pensioner Pat Gallen for not crossing a road "in the most direct route" in the small township of Malanda, near Cairns in far north Queensland.

Friend Fay Millist, 66, said an uproar in the shocked town ensued, forcing embarrassed police to tear up the ticket and write an apology to the puzzled pensioner.

But the woman at the centre of the absurdity, Mrs Gallen, said she had been "looking forward to fighting it in court".

"We even had a busload of grey nomads ready to go down and protest out the front of the courthouse," Mrs Gallen said to the Cairns Post yesterday.

Busload of grey nomads....hilarious. I can just picture a bunch of angry senior citizens shaking their canes in the air. Or like Seinfeld when they're racing their Rascal scooters at 2MPH.