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The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime

submitted by eric3579

8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago

Fun fact: a "jay" used to be a slur!

12 Comments

jokingly says...

This all sounds like good reasons why one used to need a person with a red flag to walk in front of your perambulation machine.
*quality info right there, stuff I had no idea about.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by newtboy.

PlayhousePals

*promote Flashback ... one of the two tickets I've received in my entire existence! I'm a bad Jay by gum.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, October 12th, 2015 1:57pm PDT - promote requested by PlayhousePals.

this video is jhey, upvoted.

00Scud00 says...

Interesting stuff, I never knew the origins of the term Jaywalker.
Being the operator of an evil motor vehicle however I do see a flip side to this, uppity pedestrians who seem to think that because motorists are required to stop for pedestrians that they can just stroll out into traffic any time it strikes their fancy.

The law where I live states that pedestrians always have the right of way.

A great BBC article that talks about this exact thing: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797

With self-driving cars, maybe pedestrians will regain their right of way.

You could be onto something. Now we just need to plant a few news stories, and thus the tide shall turn.

With self-driving cars, maybe pedestrians will regain their right of way.

Sorry, but I don't trust history lessons taught from CollegeHumor.

Thanks tho.

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