Maybe that's why the rest of us have to wait five, ten minutes
84 years old and can’t speak any English except for “ID”? Send him back. He doesn’t belong here (but I will be you he’s been collecting Social Security for a long time).
Getting real Soviet like in NYC
Welcome to the USSA
When will Kanye West proclaim “DiBlasio don’t like Asian people”
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get 5 million dollars:)
Maybe that's why the rest of us have to wait five, ten minutes
so according to the title, the man was jaywalking while on his way to file a $5 million lawsuit against Manhattan... aye, aye, aye... in any case, poor guy...
So this guy came to NY five decades ago and opened a restaurant and raised three sons but still can’t speak any English. Yea right!
I think this jaywalking ticket is racist.
Where are the two Wrights for this Wong?
The Simon Wiesenthal archives had some photographs of this exact sort of thing occurring. Too bad they took them off line years ago.
"since my cheek was scraped when I fell to the ground in the shoving match witnesses saw me initiate with the police" Wong went on to intimate "I want millions of dollars."
The light is always green when you step off the sidewalk. By the time you get to the other side it’s red - and I’m middle-aged, not elderly. My favorite is evil Park Avenue where they give you a countdown - I’ve never yet made it past the two lanes during one green light.
Five cops were needed to beat up on an 84-year-old man? They’re no better than a bunch of street thugs.
There. Fixed it for him. :^)
I personally don’t care if he doesn’t speak English - I hope that he wins, because the anti-jaywalking campaign is part of NYC’s long-standing “domesticate the populace” campaign. It started under Rudy Il Duce, and continued under Bloomingidiot, and (of course) the fascist DeBlasio wants no part in expanding individual freedom.
To my way of thinking, if you try to cross against the light in a place like NYC, you deserve to get run over. Oh, and the Orwellian cameras at every corner will provide evidence if the pedestrian or driver was right. What, NYC is so crime-free that it has nothing better to do with hundreds of officers other than watching where and when people walk?
I go through the posts on this thread... yeah, minorities and immigrants would be STUPID to vote for conservatives. No sarcasm here of any kind. You people just wait. You are sinking into minority status and spitting on minorities. That’s just not smart. Not very nice either. Is everyone here over 70? Come on. Cops beat the crab out of an old man and you guys are making “Wong” jokes, and dialect jokes. Don’t be a stereotype. Damn unfortunate.
My grandfather came from Italy in 1906 with zero money, worked on the railroad, lived in USA for 40 years, saved his money, bought 2 restaurants, a bakery, a vegetable store, and a 100 room hotel. He couldn`t speak a word of English, but his wife could. He always carried a big pistol tucked into his belt. The cops never bothered him at all. In those days anyone could carry a pistol here, even teenagers until the mafia govt made the Sullivan Law...
From his humble beginnings in China, to immigrating to Cuba at age 19 to work on farms, to traveling with only the clothes on his back to New York City in 1966, where he slept on floors and worked in restaurants until he could operate his own eatery, Wong said he had never found himself on the wrong side of the law.
After this run-in with the NYPD, he'll have one more sea story to tell his grandchildren.
What strikes me as odd is that they’re not putting cops with radar guns on the street. It sounds like what they have is a speeding problem rather than a jaywalking problem. I slow down for jaywalkers on city streets all the time. If they want to reduce the number of pedestrian deaths, they need to start charging people who hit pedestrians instead of ticketing and roughing up elderly jaywalkers. Besides, going after motorists who misbehave is a good way of reducing congestion in Manhattan, where the mile-long trip from east to west can take an hour.
Luckily he wasn’t blind .... they would have shot his seeing eye dog!!!!