How I Break the Law Every Day

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Mr. Beat tells the story of how "jaywalking" not only became a thing, but became an illegal thing to do.

Uh ok, so this is, like, the description of the video so keep reading. Produced by Matt Beat. Filmed by Shannon Beat and Matt Beat. Additional images used under fair use guidelines or found in the public domain. Music by Dyalla, Electric Needle Room (Mr. Beat's band), Jake County, and TrackTribe. Creative commons credit: Suesen.

@zanytime referenced videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M16as9ORv5s&t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDjy6QWBR3o (as of 12/19/24, no comments and 91 views)

Here's an annotated script with footnotes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14e4Q9M7LL1siJNjQo2-Nf97SAfNrtINngXny78LO3Uo/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/further reading:
Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street by Peter Norton (2007)
https://www.academia.edu/958183/Street_Rivals_Jaywalking_and_the_Invention_of_the_Motor_Age_Street
https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/why-is-it-called-jaywalking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-04-24/the-invention-of-jaywalking
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34392
https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/brief-history-traffic-deaths-us

#jaywalking #jaywalker #history

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