#jay walking

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[gods-of-amphibians]

cold take: jaywalking is an invention of the car industry

[silveragelovechild]

SUPERGIRL

Although in general I am a DC comics fan, I rarely watch any of the superhero shows on the CW. I do try to catch the annual-multi-crossover-crisis-big-event episodes. Last night I decided to try an episode of Supergirl. In the first few minutes the following happened:

Kara’s sister makes breakfast for a girlfriend and they jokes about blueberries. (Alex’s hair look awful.)

A guy who I think is Brainiac 5 makes breakfast for his girlfriend. There a jokes about the word “ever”.

Supergirl prevents a truck from hitting an SUV filled with a family. She grumbles about a big outdoor advertising screen. (Her new costume looks interesting).

Next Supergirl as Kara is walking with Jimmy Olsen. She grumbles about that outdoor advertising screen again.

Kara arrives at work and discovers her boss John Jones on the floor in pain.

John explains he has discovered a brother he never knew existed and provide some exposition about the green and white Martians.

Then we find Lena Luthor talking all villainy to a woman in a glass cage.

This is followed by a scene of a little girl in an alley talking to someone in the shadows. She speaks with a guttural man’s voice and both the dubbing and the acting is terrible. The creature from the shadow walks into the light and the girl turns into a Martian. The CGI on both is very poor.

Eight scenes featuring seven different characters all in 5 minutes or so. None of it was interesting. So I change the channel. This show is definitely not for me.

[kenyatta]

The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"

In the 1920s, auto groups redefined who owned the city streets.

The idea that pedestrians shouldn't be permitted to walk wherever they liked had been present as far back as 1912, when Kansas City passed the first ordinancerequiring them to cross streets at crosswalks. But in the mid-20s, auto groups took up the campaign with vigor, passing laws all over the country.

Most notably, auto industry groups took control of a series of meetings convened by Herbert Hoover (then secretary of commerce) to create a model traffic law that could be used by cities across the country. Due to their influence, the product of those meetings — the 1928 Model Municipal Traffic Ordinance — was largely based off traffic law in Los Angeles, which had enacted strict pedestrian controls in 1925.

"The crucial thing it said was that pedestrians would cross only at crosswalks, and only at right angles," Norton says. "Essentially, this is the traffic law that we're still living with today."

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Taxi please.

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09.11.2018 Radio City Music Hall New York, NY

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Jay Walking

empty gaps between individual cars                     threads of the traffic fabric there is space and I want to fill it                    with my body

The body crossed to street                    to get to the other side

[yesterdaysprint]

El Paso Herald, Texas, September 15, 1925

[priceofliberty]

California Cop Suspended for Beating and Choking Man for Jaywalking

The Sacramento police officer caught on video choking and punching a man for jaywalking was suspended Tuesday after his supervisors viewed the footage.

The cop claimed he feared for his safety because the man removed a jacket and dropped it on the street, indicating he was challenging the cop to fight.

But the man, Nandi Cain Jr., said he was just taking off his jacket to show he was not armed.

The video that surfaced, which was recorded by a friend of the victim, does not show Cain raising his fists to fight, even after the cop grabs him by the neck and throws him down on the street before sitting on him and wailing on him with punches.

Cain was charge with resisting arrest and was later accused on becoming combative with cops while being booked in jail.

However, the 24-year-old man was released from jail Tuesday morning with no charges.

Meanwhile, they have yet to identify the cop. And they have yet to release dashcam footage of the incident, claiming it is being reviewed, even though we can be sure they did just that before placing the cop on administrative leave.

And yes, it is a paid suspension, but both the chief and mayor made it clear they were not happy with what they saw on the video.