Over the past three days, over a million YouTube viewers have had a first-hand look at the absurd state of New York City bike lanes. In this video, cyclist Casey Neistat records an encounter with a police officer, who fines him for not biking in an available bike lane. As it turns out, this isn’t even illegal in New York, and the ticket is a textbook case of police harassment. Being the victim of a government-authorized shakedown is disheartening. But Neistat approaches New York’s notoriously arbitrary traffic enforcement, and sometimes-unsafe bike lanes, with slapstick humor:

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