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Video: Manic Woman Very "Sorry" For Playing In Traffic On 6th Ave
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Christopher Robbins
Published Sep 6, 2012
Modified Sep 7, 2012
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Published Sep 6, 2012
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With so many eccentric New Yorkers vying for our eyeballs, it takes a special someone (we're looking at you, Shoe Licker) to set our inboxes aflutter. Like this lady, who stops traffic on Sixth Avenue and 22nd Street by banging on car doors and repeatedly screaming "Sorry, I forgot!" Finally: the right viral marketing campaign from Hasbro to breathe new life into their most treasured board game.
At the 2:30 mark, she also pops the trunk of a cab, grabs a wheelchair, and just drops it on the ground. Remarkably, no one attempts to retaliate, even after she swats at their camera phones.
And for the completist, here's her routine from another angle.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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