What are the laws regarding carrying a hammer 🔨 on your person in public?
Every crosswalk along New York's Third Avenue looks like this. This is incredibly frustrating.
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What are the laws regarding carrying a hammer 🔨 on your person in public?
65 Comments
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 92 pts · 93d
NYPD used to be super strict about ticketing for "blocking the box". Like it was their favorite thing to do. I know it's usually worse in midtown but I guess they've fallen off.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 93d
There's virtually zero traffic enforcement in NYC
Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 93d
Ironic given that the NYPD has a larger budget than what most countries spend on their military.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 93d
Huh, as a visitor I always had a different opinion about NYC traffic but I’m probably not really seeing it. They had “don’t block the box” for years, it’s not like speeding is even possible most of the time, and there are so many people that you can’t help but deal with them
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 93d
Try parking during the street sweep
olympicyes@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 93d
I’ve been in two taxis that have gotten tickets for blocking the box in NYC 10-15 years ago. I guess I was surprised to see this tolerated.
Hello_there@fedia.io · 59 pts · 93d
Janx@piefed.social · 15 pts · 93d
Counter-point: They can kill you by applying pressure with their toe. Alternate plan: Make them fear breaking the law in the first place...
Dicska@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 93d
You bang bang backwards after passing.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 10 pts · 93d
The all-american solution: point your gun at them
Deme@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 93d
Not if you're off to the side
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 49 pts · 93d
I like those videos where people open the back doors of cars stopped on crossings and climb out the other door so they can cross the road.
Janx@piefed.social · 18 pts · 93d
Absolutely insane. You know how many of our fellow americans have guns and zero chill!? It's not fair, but protest in a manner that's safe...
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 93d
It's safe because the videos are staged
hash@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 93d
I'm a relatively risk averse person but this is crazy. Do you fret the same amount every time you head out on our increasingly deadly roads? I can't imagine leaving the house if I believed my fellow citizens were one small inconvenience away from blowing my head off in broad daylight.
Janx@piefed.social · 5 pts · 93d
It's crazy!? Really?? Again, the commenter is advocating you open some stranger's vehicle while they are stopped at a light and enter it. You don't know if they have kids in there, if they think you are carjacking them, etc. And yeah, they might be armed.
And what's this false equivalency about it being the same as driving on the road? That makes no sense and is completely irrelevant. Did you even read the comment I was replying to??
Anyone who's driven on american roads knows how aggressive people can be. And the comment is talking about entering these same people's vehicles unannounced and not thinking they will react badly or panic in the moment!? Also, I think it's technically trespassing in most states...
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 91d
I walk on top of the car.
Kirk@startrek.website · 42 pts · 93d
Seeing this always makes me consider carring a pack of stickers on me that say something embarrassing on it
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 36 pts · 93d
Gallagher used to tell a joke that every driver should be issued a suction cup dart gun, that shoots darts with a red flag on it at any car driving like an idiot. When a cop sees a car with 3 flags on the fender, he pulls them over, and gives them a ticket for being an asshole.
VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 93d
I thought all he did was smash large fruits and veggies.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 93d
Hell no, he was a really funny, incentive, intelligent comic. He liked to do bits on language, like when he talked about being bald, and said "People tell me I don't have hair on my head because of my genes, but I got hair in my jeans, I need it on my head!"
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 93d
Just hold one of your keys out as you walk by the cars on the crosswalk.
Kirk@startrek.website · 5 pts · 93d
Crude but effective
LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 93d
If you know no fear, climb on the cars blocking the path :p
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 93d
SMOOTH MOVE, EX LAX
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 93d
Or a waterproof pencil. Just to warn the other drivers, that they don't know or care for traffic rules.
frisbird@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 93d
It's 45th St. That's absolutely NOT what every crossing at 3rd Ave looks like. Stay out of Midtown if you want people who behave like others exist. Midtown is a hellscape
IronBird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 93d
better than lower atleast, surely?
davetortoise@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 93d
MR MAMDANI NUKE THESE CARS IMMEDIATELY ‼️‼️
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 93d
Zohran doing Maoist landlord purges to NYC's cars
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 93d
Needs an additional lane so more cars could pass and not block the crosswalk
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler /s :::
Tuxman@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 93d
Remove the crosswalks!
Problem solved, job finished! Give all of you a pat on the back and let’s go hang out at the strip club!
njm1314@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 93d
Seems like a place that need a crossing brick to me.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 75d
Crossing Hick, midwestern guy with a shotgun guarding the crosswalk, making sure everyone is polite.
Deme@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 93d
In my country the law states that in crosswalks without traffic lights, pedestrians must be given unobstructed access. I've considered getting steel tipped shoes and just kicking the violators with those. After all, it's basically the same as walking swiftly. I bet the case would be even stronger with a green traffic light...
AA5B@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 93d
It’s gridlock so there’s some amount of plausible deniability. They’d claim they thought they could get through but traffic stopped
Sabin10@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 93d
My dude, hammers are nice but keys are ubiquitous
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 9 pts · 93d
That's why you go through the cars. Leave the doors open.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 93d
In Switzerland, we just bang on the window
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 93d
Never seen a car this blatantly ignoring traffic rules here. And if they do, not for long.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 93d
Leave space for crossing you damn carbrains!
dan69@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 93d
I wonder if their mayor can do something about this. I do understand that this is behavior that he cannot impose. But as a leader he could rally them to be “self-accountable” and more importantly vigilant towards pedestrians.
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 93d
If they actually enforced pedestrian law, it would be fixed.
AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 93d
I'm walkin' here!
blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 93d
This is why bicyclists carry bike locks
6244901@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 93d
How tf do people drive in that! -.-
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · -41 pts · 93d
End congestion pricing.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 93d
That boat has sailed boy, your instructions just haven't been updated
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · -11 pts · 93d
Well, it's still something I care about. It's one of the reasons I don't go into the city.
tyler@programming.dev · 13 pts · 93d
That’s exactly the problem it solved. Turns out the majority of people against congestion pricing in NYC were people that didn’t even live in NYC, just out of towners that would go in once a month if that. The people actually living in NYC were overwhelmingly in favor of it.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 93d
You'd rather deal with parking in Manhattan than take transit? You can stay in NJ lol
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 93d
Wow, congestion pricing is working then!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 93d
Lol cope
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 93d
As a 1-2/yr visitor I’ve been taking Acela for about two decades now. It’s so nice to leave the car at home in Massachusetts and have so much freedom to go anywhere. I haven’t yet been since congestion pricing started but M looking forward to the improved accessibility to everything
felixwhynot@lemmy.world · -50 pts · 93d
What’s exactly the problem? Doesn’t look like gridlock on the adjacent street. Traffic is shit and yes, fuck cars, but Manhattan is one of the best cities in the world imho
Quokka@quokk.au · 45 pts · 93d
They're blocking the crosswalk?
felixwhynot@lemmy.world · -35 pts · 93d
I guess I’m just used to this kinda nonsense in NYC. OP is clearly crossing anyway?
Deme@sopuli.xyz · 40 pts · 93d
Imagine trying to use the bicycle path there...
Quokka@quokk.au · 45 pts · 93d
Or being disabled.
Bloefz@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 93d
Yeah but having to squeeze through a tiny gap which makes it hard for all pedestrians to cross in the time allotted.
Pedestrians should have priority over cars.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 93d
As someone whose family member is in a wheelchair and already has trouble crossing in the allotted time in NYC because of all the uneven pavement and crap curbcuts, it's nigh impossible when the cars crunch into the crosswalk all helter-skelter like that.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 93d
Typical yank
Utterly incapable of seeing the point in not being a selfish cunt
felixwhynot@lemmy.world · -30 pts · 93d
Hey with all due respect, go fist yourself.
Seriously though I take the point—things could be somewhat better.
Bloefz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 93d
To be honest current America is like this. No. Not all Americans are. I know. But blame Trump. Not those hating on America's actions as a state.
dermanus@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 93d
Blocking the box. The car entered the intersection without being able to exit it and now cross traffic is blocked even though they have the light. This can cause cascading delays as it backs up going the other way.