Skip to content Try Ads-Free Fark It's Not News, It's Fark How To FarkLog In | Sign Up » Forgot password? Turn on javascript (or enable it for Fark) for a better user experience. If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page. Discussion Entertainment Break out your Death Race 2000 cars, jaywalking is now officially legal in NYC (abc7ny.com) More: Spiffy, Law, New York City, New York, city council, City, City records, Advocates of the change, Alphabet song 340 clicks;posted toMain »on 18 Apr 2025 at9:50 AM(1 hour ago) | Favorite | Watch | share: Copy Link 30 Comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest (2) Funniest 2 hours ago (6) Funniest 2 hours ago Lee451: [Fark user image 850x472] I remember seeing that at the drive-in as a teenager. It was on a double billing with some Kung Fu action movie - I don't remember the name, but it was about 50% Kung Fu fighting and 50% boobs. That was a great double feature Private_Citizen (2) Funniest That was a fun movie. Silly as hell, but really fun. HotWingConspiracy (14) Funniest Racism is so entrenched in the NYPD they have to just give up certain laws instead of getting them to comply with colorblind policing. justanotherfarkinfarker (1) Funniest 37 minutes ago OldRod: Lee451: [Fark user image 850x472] I remember seeing that at the drive-in as a teenager. It was on a double billing with some Kung Fu action movie - I don't remember the name, but it was about 50% Kung Fu fighting and 50% boobs. That was a great double feature Boobs always are a double feature. Madman drummers bummers (6) Funniest 33 minutes ago Jaywalking, especially in Manhattan, is a self-correcting issue, anyway. All that law ever did was give the cops another reason to harass people on the street. (3) Funniest 36 minutes ago justanotherfarkinfarker: OldRod: Lee451: [Fark user image 850x472] I remember seeing that at the drive-in as a teenager. It was on a double billing with some Kung Fu action movie - I don't remember the name, but it was about 50% Kung Fu fighting and 50% boobs. That was a great double feature Boobs always are a double feature. Spartapuss (0) Funniest 31 minutes ago Gordon Bennett (4) Funniest 35 minutes ago It never made much sense that in the self-described Land Of The Free it is only legal to walk across a street along designated crossing paths. Everyone else seems to get by perfectly well by looking both ways before crossing. (7) Funniest 33 minutes ago We don't have jaywalking in the UK. We just take our chances if we see a big enough gap (Not including motorways, obvs.) To the best of my knowledge the concept of jaywalking as a criminal act was invented by lobbying insurance companies purely to lay the blame of any pedestrian/vehicle convergence at the feet of the pedestrian because they shouldn't have been on the road in the first place MythDragon (0) Funniest 33 minutes ago Best scene in the whole movie Is that a grenade? Private_Citizen (2) Funniest 35 minutes ago MythDragon: Best scene in the whole movie [iFrame https://www.youtube.com/embed/qUnwbgA1L5w?autoplay=1&widget_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fark.com&start=0&enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fark.com&widgetid=1&forigin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fark.com%2Fcomments%2F13639312%2FBreak-out-your-Death-Race-2000-cars-jaywalking-is-now-officially-legal-in-NYC%23new&aoriginsup=1&gporigin=https%3A%2F%2Ftotal.fark.com%2Fgreenlit%2F&vf=6] That's not a grenade, it's a Hand Grenade. rainbowbutter (2) Funniest 35 minutes ago Stantz: We don't have jaywalking in the UK. We just take our chances if we see a big enough gap (Not including motorways, obvs.) To the best of my knowledge the concept of jaywalking as a criminal act was invented by lobbying insurance companies purely to lay the blame of any pedestrian/vehicle convergence at the feet of the pedestrian because they shouldn't have been on the road in the first place It was on an episode of "Adam Ruins Everything". Too cutsie, but some really interesting stuff- he's kind of like Alton Brown for non-food stuff. The Pope of Manwich Village (0) Funniest 33 minutes ago I have a trip to NYC in May, thank goodness I was good at Frogger and Pitfall as a kid. Hunter Biden's Laptop (0) Funniest 33 minutes ago Gordon Bennett: Everyone else seems to get by perfectly well by looking both ways before crossing. Oh, bless your heart. Hunter Biden's Laptop (1) Funniest 35 minutes ago Madman drummers bummers: Jaywalking, especially in Manhattan, is a self-correcting issue, anyway. All that law ever did was give the cops another reason to harass people on the street. Separating these out for clarity and emphasis. They're both true. I fully expect Manhattan to turn into a SFO-style hellscape for both pedestrians and drivers too busy scrolling the Insta to pay attention to traffic. I look forward to the introduction of self-driving cars to the island. Porous Horace (0) Funniest 36 minutes ago "Chicken in a basket?" "Chicken in a casket!" cosmiquemuffin (1) Funniest 34 minutes ago My brother and I would spend hours playing this at the Adventureland arcade in the 1970s. Arcade Game: Death Race (1976 Exidy) [Re-Uploaded] strathmeyer (2) Funniest 33 minutes ago Madman drummers bummers: Jaywalking, especially in Manhattan, is a self-correcting issue, anyway. All that law ever did was give the cops another reason to harass people on the street. I mean just make it a crime to get hit by a car like they do with men and their wives. fullyautomatic (2) Funniest 32 minutes ago Gordon Bennett: It never made much sense that in the self-described Land Of The Free it is only legal to walk across a street along designated crossing paths. Everyone else seems to get by perfectly well by looking both ways before crossing. True, but on top of near zero public transport, we allow modded brodozers that can't see people or some cars, soccer moms on the 5th cup of Franzia driving the biggest Suburban thing money can buy (which should require a commercial truck license to operate), 85 year olds, newly arrived persons that can't read the road signage yet got licenses and cars anyway, and gigantic wide dangerous roads to accommodate these problems we allowed lol. The above still hit people in crosswalks. /the NYC enforcement is well known cop harassment, but nationally, crosswalks do make sense (0) Funniest less than a minute ago The full movie is on YouTube in 1080 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sif1BueXqYE It starts with a couple of Fark age guys drinking and setting up the film. In addition to Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine, it has boobies AND the wacko president who has been president since the "world crash of 79" lives in the "Summer Palace" says he's "done the best he can", "gives you what you want", and "minority privilege". Talk about life imitating art. iron de havilland (0) Funniest 1 minute ago morg: justanotherfarkinfarker: OldRod: Lee451: [Fark user image 850x472] I remember seeing that at the drive-in as a teenager. It was on a double billing with some Kung Fu action movie - I don't remember the name, but it was about 50% Kung Fu fighting and 50% boobs. That was a great double feature Boobs always are a double feature. [media-amazon.com image 850x428] Schmerd1948 (0) Funniest less than a minute ago fullyautomatic: Gordon Bennett: It never made much sense that in the self-described Land Of The Free it is only legal to walk across a street along designated crossing paths. Everyone else seems to get by perfectly well by looking both ways before crossing. True, but on top of near zero public transport, we allow modded brodozers that can't see people or some cars, soccer moms on the 5th cup of Franzia driving the biggest Suburban thing money can buy (which should require a commercial truck license to operate), 85 year olds, newly arrived persons that can't read the road signage yet got licenses and cars anyway, and gigantic wide dangerous roads to accommodate these problems we allowed lol. The above still hit people in crosswalks. /the NYC enforcement is well known cop harassment, but nationally, crosswalks do make sense 10 Safest Cities for Pedestrians New York City San Francisco Philadelphia RolandTGunner (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Gordon Bennett: It never made much sense that in the self-described Land Of The Free it is only legal to walk across a street along designated crossing paths. Everyone else seems to get by perfectly well by looking both ways before crossing. I've lived in NY for twenty plus years. Let me tell you, areas of the city, people definitely don't look both ways before crossing. Private_Citizen (0) Funniest Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: Gordon Bennett: It never made much sense that in the self-described Land Of The Free it is only legal to walk across a street along designated crossing paths. Everyone else seems to get by perfectly well by looking both ways before crossing. I've lived in NY for twenty plus years. Let me tell you, areas of the city, people definitely don't look both ways before crossing. Frogger - Seinfeld Live Frogger JTtheCajun (0) Funniest less than a minute ago rainbowbutter: Stantz: We don't have jaywalking in the UK. We just take our chances if we see a big enough gap (Not including motorways, obvs.) To the best of my knowledge the concept of jaywalking as a criminal act was invented by lobbying insurance companies purely to lay the blame of any pedestrian/vehicle convergence at the feet of the pedestrian because they shouldn't have been on the road in the first place It was on an episode of "Adam Ruins Everything". Too cutsie, but some really interesting stuff- he's kind of like Alton Brown for non-food stuff. Adam's a really funny guy and really insightful. I catch his YouTube show when I can. He's high up in the Writer's Guild and was really out there during the strikes. He's great on his "Um, Actually" appearances. Oliver Twisted (0) Funniest less than a minute ago OldRod: Lee451: [Fark user image 850x472] I remember seeing that at the drive-in as a teenager. It was on a double billing with some Kung Fu action movie - I don't remember the name, but it was about 50% Kung Fu fighting and 50% boobs. That was a great double feature Enough about your date, how were the movies? The_EliteOne (0) Funniest less than a minute ago For the most, if you DO get hit by a car while jaywalking in Manhattan, it's not usually that bad because no one can drive that fast anyway because of all the other cars. Working in the city for going on twenty years now, you see some crazy shiat. Bikes getting tangled and manageled, and somehow the rider getting up and walking away, people with so many near-misses. My favorite might've been the cabbie turning left and he didn't see the skater punk who almost got a broken hip, and the skater punk started beating his cab with his board. I was on my way to Duane Reade once and some lady came flying out of nowhere, making a right to get onto 8th Ave from somewhere in the high 20s, and I must've looked funny the way I sped up and jumped out of the way. She rolled down her window (rolled? pressed a button but that sounds weird) and apologized over and over again, and I only remember this because I said "Hey no worries, I could use a few days off of work" she scowled at me and said "God forbid!" and drove away. (0) Funniest 1 minute ago Madman drummers bummers: Jaywalking, especially in Manhattan, is a self-correcting issue, anyway. All that law ever did was give the cops another reason to harass people on the street. Displayed 30 of 30 comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. 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