Yesterday in New York, police spent hours attempting to remove this Honda from the pedestrian lane of the Pulaski Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Queens. Apparently, it was a stolen car and the driver likely escaped through a window.
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10:20 am Fri
Dec 27, 2019
Evidence that a car isn't a pedestrian and probably shouldn't use the pedestrian lane
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