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Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Because crosswalks are racist...

A new law signed on Friday will allow Californians to legally jaywalk without being ticketed. 

Pedestrians can now cross the street outside of an intersection without breaking the law as long as it is safe to do so.

23 comments:

  1. So when the jaywalkers are hit, do they get a ticket because it wasn't safe?

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    1. No problem. The ambulance chasing shysters will include recouping the $75 ticket in the law suit.

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    2. UNEMPLOYED LAWYERS HIGH-FIVIN' EACH OTHER

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  2. Wouldn't it be easier to revoke the old law than create a new one? Oh wait, there's no opportunity to virtue signal in that.

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  3. Jaywalking is just California drifting.

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  4. Pedestrian crosswalks are there to provide a 'must-stop' zone for cars when pedestrians are on the crosswalk. It's a law. So: are roads now 100% crosswalk zones? Or are roads still roads, with road kill?

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    1. Kenny and I have both been to Germany. He can probably attest: If you step outside the crosswalk they'll go out of the way to hit you, as you can be sued for bending their vehicle.

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    2. Oh yeah. Gotta stay on your toes there.

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    3. Unless the law has changed in the last few years, the pedestrian is not supposed to enter the crosswalk until it is safe to cross. That part is not followed by pedestrians though.

      The problem is they keep adding protections for the pedestrians and bikers until both feel so comfortable on the road that they will go out in traffic without looking, knowing that law enforcement and the legal system will protect them. What really needs to be done is moving the laws in the other direction.

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    4. The law enforcement and legal systems will protect the pedestrian; the laws of physics will not.

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    5. Yes, we were in Innsbruck many years ago. Walking? Watch your ass crossing the road.

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  5. So now the fuckers will be chicken walking all over the roads. They will take great pride in causing traffic jams while slowly struting across the roads. Stupid fucks holding up people who are going to work and are taxed so these bastards can sit on their ass and get free shit.

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  6. The Progressive solution to high crime is to stop making it a crime.

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  7. If I were a po-leece, I wouldn't write a single jay walking ticket, safe walking or not. Like Charlie Brown says in the internet cartoon, "Stupid should hurt." Back in the bad 1950s, you drive to town and back, guarantee you would see black people walking on the road surface, with traffic, which meant drivers would have to go around. Sameo-sameo with this law.

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  8. I never understood jay walking being a crime.

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  9. I would expect injuries or deaths to increase, as well as car insurance rates.

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  10. So Newsom thinks that minorities can't grasp the concept of crossing at the cross walk? Sound racist to me.....

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  11. I have lived in Ohio most of my life and jaywalking never bothered me. People here learned to wait till the car passed before finishing the crossing. This is not about crossing in heavy traffic. Only assholes do that. I hated Californicate when I was there for military because if I was standing on the edge of a curb the drivers would stop to let me cross even when they were the only car in sight.

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  12. So? Open season on pedestrians? Cool!

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  13. Did they institute a points system too?

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  14. It's the Broken Windows Theory! It sounds like no big deal, but it Leads to nothing good.

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  15. Having my Bull Bar installed as we speak.

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