Why do people jaywalk in traffic?

[Nervous Rex]

It amazes me how other people think they're indestructable.

Well, they are indestructible, really. They have survived everything up to that point. When they encounter something fatal, it's the last thing they encounter and it's too late to learn from it.

 

[Judge]

Well, they are indestructible, really. They have survived everything up to that point. When they encounter something fatal, it's the last thing they encounter and it's too late to learn from it.

Nothing more frustrating than a ghost who doesn't know they died.

 

[FreeDiver]

The biggest thing I hate about this is when they are wearing dark clothes at night. You can't see them until they are less then 10 feet in front of you and by then, it maybe too late.

 

[clg114]

Jaywalking gives you "That run down feeling".

 

[FreeDiver]

<preach to the choir> Jaywalking or not. What ever happen to the old saying "Look both ways before crossing the street!"? At least that's what I was tough when I was a kid. </preach to the choir>

 

[Bikutoso]

I have seen people for 2-3 years crossing the road in a industrial zone with a lots of big and scary traffic to save 60 seconds of walking.
They are allowed to do it, but it is still a stupid route only to save those few seconds.

 

[Crossbreed]

Jaywalking gives you "That run down feeling".

The sequence is

1. Tired,
2. Run Down &
3. Exhausted...!
   

 

[Nervous Rex]

The sequence is

1. Tired,
2. Run Down &
3. Exhausted...!
   

I heard it as:

What happens when you run in front of a car? You get tired.

What happens when you run behind a car? You get exhausted.

 

[Progster]

I was hit once by a reversing vehicle, but it was in a pedestrian area where vehicles aren't even supposed to be - I passed behind a stationary vehicle at the exact moment that he decided to reverse. His fault, not mine.

 

[tlc]

People are lazy. They do it because they can, and because often the nearest pedestrian crossing is a hundred metres or so down the road, but even if it's 10 metres, they will still do it, because they are intent on getting from A to B via the shortest route, and that's their mindset. Rules and regulations don't mean much where I live.

Even at pedestrain crossings where drivers are obliged to give way to pedestrians, they don't. Even when there is a green man, they don't, so it becomes a battle of wills: pedestrian v. motor vehicle.

My favoutite place for crossing the road is Bucharest. At one place in the city, there is a pedestrian crossing across a major, busy road. It looks scary to cross, it looks like the traffic will never stop, but when you do start to cross, all the traffic comes to a halt, just for you It's an amazing feeling, control and power over the traffic

Sounds like Charlevoix MI in the summer. The rich people come here and jaywalking is a way of life. I avoid the place whenever possible.