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Headed to a subway next month: New SubTalk posters that remind straphangers groping is a crime and encourage any victims to report incidents to an MTA employee or a police officer.

On Wednesday the City Council passed a law that we're calling "The Dan Hoyt Law". It will "target individuals who commit lewd acts in public more than once in a three year period," which will allow judges to give flashers a harsher sentence, up to a year in jail and three years of probation, on top of a $1,000 fine.

"We are moving to punish a pattern of behavior that is not only disgusting but dangerous. Those who repeatedly expose themselves to others for their own amusement could one day take their perversion even further," the bill's sponsor, City Council member Peter Vallone, said yesterday. "If they want to expose themselves we'll expose them to the full extent of the law."

Two years ago a cameraphone picture of raw food guru and "subway pleasurer", Dan Hoyt (pictured), started a media frenzy and helped in his arrest -- though he only received two years probation.

Hollaback! A man was arrested for menacing, stalking and exposing himself to a woman on the B and Q trains on Monday. The Post reports that the police caught 24-year-old Jay Arungah after the victim showed them a camera phone picture of a naked Arungah.

Serial subway flasher and rax food restaurateur Dan Hoyt was sentenced to 2 years probation plus counseling in the case of his subway pleasuring that was captured by a cameraphone last August. Hoyt apologized for his actions, and it turns out he's flashed people four other times between 2004 and 2005. Eep. However, Thao Nguyn, who snapped the photograph, was deeply unimpressed with Hoyt's remarks to New York magazine, where he said some women would be turned on by what he did and want to date him. Nguyen was one of the women marching outside of the courtroom against Hoyt; Hollaback NYC founder Lauren Spees told the AP that Nguyen "is like the Rosa Parks of street harassment."

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