So you decide to cross a 4 lane road. Ok, nothing was coming one side and the other was stopped because of a light, not the right thing to do, but you did it, whatever. That’s not the issue. You cross one side and failed to anticipate the people who were turning right and were coming through so you’re about halfway through the road when cars start to drive … but no let’s not look like we’re trying to not get killed, let’s slow walk across the street, chest high, like “you can’t hit me”, looking like you own the road, making oncoming traffic come to a stop for you. At least look like you’re trying to hurry across rather than leisurely stroll with your cup of coffee… and no, don’t tell me anything about what if they couldn’t move fast because of some kind of injury … if you can’t move fast take your ass to a cross walk!
Oh and on a second note, stop anticipating the walk signal. Walk when it says walk, or have half the sense to look at the cars possibly approaching before they come. I spend much of my time as a pedestrian and have seen this happen so many times. You know that we can soon walk, I know that we can soon walk, just wait two seconds for the walk signal, God dammit. Just Wednesday a girl nearly got knocked over because she anticipated the walk sign, went and was about halfway through when it actually turned into the walk signal. Someone was turning left and had to suddenly stop when they noticed you in the cross walk!
One more. —Sorry About the Road Bitch
This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2011.
We don’t want the story. Just get to the goods!
Don’t worry OB, a delivery truck or minivan has that person in their grill’s view. Only a matter of time before they become road killed 🙂
Or a garbage truck………true story!
OP, are you from another country or province? Because your attitude is all fiucked up.
In Nova Scotia, it doesn’t matter if the person is jay walking, PEDESTRIANS HAVE RIGHT OF WAY.
And, “anticipating a walk sign” is not a valid excuse for a driver that isn’t paying attention to where they are driving.
That vehicle of yours is potentially dangerous. If you can’t drive safely and you can’t avoid stupid pedestrians, then I suggest you replace your car payments with a gold card for Halifax Taxi.
Killing someone really sucks, don’t do it.
sometimes o.p., b.o. acts like an invisible shield, nough said.
Pedestrians have the right of way in *crosswalks* marked or unmarked, these exist at every intersection.
If a pedestrian is crossing anywhere else, they must yield right-of-way to vehicles. Failure to do so may result in a fine of up to $394.50 (or death). At a light-controlled intersection, failing to obey pedestrian crossing lights can result in a fine of up to $164.50.
So no, a jaywalking moron doesn’t have right of way. It is a common misconception that pedestrians always have the right of way. They don’t.
A lesson is semantics sometimes suggests that you missed the point being made, or would prefer to distract others away from the point. Its funny how academic debaters will use this approach and be totally oblivious to how that makes them look cowardly, unfocussed.
Why would I hurry across a road? lol. I walk fast enough as it is, and I’m not trotting across two lanes of traffic so you can get to your destination two seconds faster (speeding to the next red light syndrome)…
I’m walking, OB you can wait
What I hate is when trying to jaywalk some drivers will slow down and let people across – WTF! That’s probably one of the most dangerous things a driver can do. It assumes all the drivers are in on what one driver has decided to do – which of course they haven’t. Let jaywalkers determine their own safe crossing and stop stopping for them!! Sheesh
I got that beat, dartmouthy. One time I was actually behind someone – who had a green light – and stopped to let someone cross the street – who had a don’t walk sign.
And I’m talking fresh green light. The pedestrian even stood there for a minute confused then slowly inched their way across with a bewildered look on their face.
No worse than the three fucking idiots dressed in black running across the Circ at 2:30am today.
Pedestrians have the right of way in this city, or haven’t you figured that one out yet? Which means no one gives a flying fuck if you’re turning right. They get to go first and most of them go early to keep from being slammed by one of you fucking fools when the light changes and YOU AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION and just take off without making sure someone is walking first. You blame the pedestrian because YOU weren’t paying attention and THEY were following the rules.
They have the right to go first. You wait second. That’s how it works. This province has fucked up weather which is part of the reason this system exists here to begin with so be patient, little child. It’s not about you around here.
And nobody has to run to appease you. If i feel like meandering and taking my sweet time across a crosswalk, as long as i have a green light it is within my right to do so. And maybe i’ll start just to piss of pricks like you.
now if you’re bitching about jaywalkers, that’s another story. When you jaywalk, you do so at your own risk. Anywhere.
Go ahead and deliberately run over a bunch of jay walkers, you’ll land you ass in jail so fast you won’t be that they don’t have the right of way.
if you see these *walkers* mow them down http://arachnerd.files.wordpress.com/2011/…