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WALK RIGHT!
Year: 1984
Categories: Law | Politics, Lifestyle | Culture
Overview:
In December of 1984, Joseph Virgil Skaggs (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs), had had enough of the outrageous behavior exhibited by inconsiderate, unconscious, hostile pedestrians in New York City. Skaggs formed WALK RIGHT! — an ad hoc group of vigilante sidewalk etiquette enforcers who patrolled the streets to make New York a better place to live and walk.
This fascistic group, dressed in all black with WALK RIGHT! sweat shirts published a petition that listed sixty six rules for pedestrians which they wanted to have enacted into law. The list included such regulations as:
- All shopping and laundry carts must have their wheels well oiled
- Obese people must walk single file
- Different types of lanes were to be established — one way lanes, a passing lane, window shopping lanes, etc.
- Pedestrians must choose one lane and stay in it
- No changing directions except at designated areas
- No stopping while walking except when in the shopping lane
- No gesticulating while walking
- No eating while walking
- No short people with umbrellas unless held at minimum height of 5′ 10″
Pedestrians who violated the sidewalk rules were to be fined and forced to attend a WALK RIGHT! sidewalk etiquette school. WOR TV Channel 9 News and CNN, walked right into WALK RIGHT!
Watch WALK RIGHT! on CNN (2:40):