jay-walking ticket?

[OVERKILL]

Originally posted by: Baked
PWN. I hate jay walkers.

I'm going to try to be as nice as possible as I say this to you.

Are you sure that your brain isn't baked?

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: OVERKILL

Originally posted by: Baked
PWN. I hate jay walkers.

I'm going to try to be as nice as possible as I say this to you.

Are you sure that your brain isn't baked?

Oooh, a jay walking sympathizer. I'll try to be as sarcastic as I can when you get run over by some semi because you're too lazy to obey the law and cross the street by the cross walk. Deal?

 

[Jeff7]

I think I was like, 19 until I learned what "jaywalking" actually meant.

<- raised in the country. The nearest traffic light is probably at least.....oh, maybe 9 miles away.

 

[mobiblu]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
What campus was she at? I've attended a number of schools, U of M, UNLV, U of A, UNM, NMSU and, I've never heard of anyone being ticketed for jaywalking.

She goes to Ferris in Big Rapids, MI

 

[mobiblu]

Originally posted by: topslop1
I wouldn't pay the ticket.

It a ticket from the school... chances are if she doesn't pay, they would let her register for future class, freeze her student's account, etc....

 

[Leros]

I know someone who got ticketed for jaywalking. The fine was like $12, but after court fees and stuff it was over $100.

 

[Anubis]

friend of mine got one in college more or less same situation as the OP's friend

he went to court and got it dismissed

 

[DainBramaged]

I ran out in front of a police car while drunk tonight. He didn't give a sh!t.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: OVERKILL

Originally posted by: Baked
PWN. I hate jay walkers.

I'm going to try to be as nice as possible as I say this to you.

Are you sure that your brain isn't baked?

Oooh, a jay walking sympathizer. I'll try to be as sarcastic as I can when you get run over by some semi because you're too lazy to obey the law and cross the street by the cross walk. Deal?

Where I live, almost all the crosswalk lights are broken. They tell you to cross even though people are driving through the crosswalk at 40 mph. They don't alter traffic or seem to understand it in any way. The only way to cross a street without jaywalking is through a crossing guard pretty much.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: tjaisv

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Baked
PWN. I hate jay walkers.

People who jay walk are like animals crossing the road w/o looking, and you know what happens to animals crossing the road w/o looking. Yes, they end up getting road killed.

Agreed. Jaywalkers are always bound to get run over because they are too stupid to look where they're going.

It's not jaywalking that's the problem, it's stupidity. When I jaywalk, I look both ways, and I certainly don't cross the street if there's a car coming, or indeed a car anywhere close. I'm certainly not going to inconvenience someone and hope they slow down out of common courtesy; in fact, I assume that they'll speed up or swerve a bit and try to hit me.

Basically I'm saying that jaywalking should only earn you a ticket if you do it in a stupid way. Same with speeding, really.

Originally posted by: Baked
Oooh, a jay walking sympathizer. I'll try to be as sarcastic as I can when you get run over by some semi because you're too lazy to obey the law and cross the street by the cross walk. Deal?

So basically you're saying that underneath your stoner/hippie/blue-collar exterior, you're just another stereotypical, legalistic, upper-middle suburbanite American?:laugh:

 

[TheChort]

this one time i was getting ready to jay-walk and i saw a cop approaching. I stopped only because i didn't wanna get run over.
As the cop passed by, he looked at me and started laughing. Then as soon as he passed, i was across the street.

To those of you that are bashing jay-walkers...have you ever left the country?
Of the dozen or so countries I've been to, only the US and maybe Berliners really give a damn about jay-walking. In about every other city (at least in europe) it's the norm.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: TheChort
this one time i was getting ready to jay-walk and i saw a cop approaching. I stopped only because i didn't wanna get run over.
As the cop passed by, he looked at me and started laughing. Then as soon as he passed, i was across the street.

To those of you that are bashing jay-walkers...have you ever left the country?
Of the dozen or so countries I've been to, only the US and maybe Berliners really give a damn about jay-walking. In about every other city (at least in europe) it's the norm.

Yup. Crossing the road when it's clear, wherever you are, is what everyone does in the UK.
Obviously if it's busy, they use proper crossings because it's the only way to get a break in the traffic, but if it's clear, you go.
Not only that, but it's completely legal to cross the road anywhere (except motorways I believe, because pedestrians can't be on motorways), and in the official road rules it just states you should be careful.

 

[dman]

If you repeatedly get ticketed for Jaywalking, what happens?

I'm just curious, haven't been ticketed for it, yet. But other than a fine is there any other punishment?


"What are you in for?" "Jaywalking. 50 times in the last 3yrs."

 

[bignateyk]

Here in state college, you expect everyone to jaywalk. As a driver, you come to expect thousands of students to play a real-life game of frogger up and down the streets. The worst thing you can do is to slow down if you see someone walk out in front of you because chances are they have timed their crossing with a car in the other lane as well. By slowing down you mess up their timing.

Coming from the jaywalking end, I can also speak for this. I will often see a break between two cars in the far lane, and will step out into the first lane. Usually the cars just keep going their pace, but when the first car slows down, everything gets messed up. My frogger skills are pretty good tho, and i simply back up to the sidewalk and wait for my next opportunity to jump out.

 

[jadinolf]

My brother and I got them in Hollyweird years ago.

Back then it was a $15 fine.