I don’t get that either. He should most definitely face charges, at least long enough to pull his license and impound his car. Then if they want to say he’s not competent for trial, I’m cool with that.
Because the difference between Australians and Americans is readily visible from a block away at 35 mph. You go, White Soul Brother!
Exactly. Mr Roboto, please explain how you knew the driver two cars ahead of you and these jaywalkers were not American.
Then why do you keep talking about the “country” that the driver and jaywalkers were from?
If there’s no difference, why do you keep bringing it up?
In Soviet Russia, JayWalkers don’t stop for us!
God, you’re such an ageist!
Unsafe, silly, foolish driver. But beyond that, also a stupid Mr Roboto, please circle correct response and cross out those remaining) beaner/raghead/slant/hebe/wop/frog/abo/redskin.
It’s tattoed on the back of their necks.
I agree that it is foolish and dangerous for a driver to stop for a pedestrain waiting to cross in the middle of the block. Obviously it’s different if the person is already in the middle of the road.
However the whole racial aspect of the OP is fucked up and would have made the argument much more compelling if it had simply been left out.
Is this a thinly veiled KKK recruitment message, or just a really lame rant?
Goddamn immigrants moving to our country and stealing our tax dollars and taking our jobs and now fucking slowing our streets down!
Remember, Mr. Roboto.
Then what the hell did we color-code the dots on our heads for???
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I don’t know, but death might be a negative ramification. Or loss of limbs. 
I tease, I’m actually with you on the camera idea, if only it would work. I’m a pedestrian myself who rarely, rarely drives, but the stupid shit happens on both ends. A fender bender sucks, I agree, and I’d be hopping mad if a pedestrian jaywalking was the cause of an accident; but then again, that’s when the pedestrian gets away with it. When he doesn’t, well… there’s usually blood. (Still his own damn fault, which is aggravating as all hell, since by then there’s nothing that can be said or done without the driver looking like an insensitive ass.)
It’s jerkish all over.
But I, too, wonder what race has to do with anything in the OP… and maybe I misread one of the posts above, but is** Roboto ** saying that if he were in this person’s shoes, as in, himself in another country, that he would be doing the same thing? Or did I completely misunderstand that one? (He may have been being sarcastic and I was whoooshed. I’m easily whoooshed.)
The important thing there is “if there is vehicle traffic”.
When you look at the actual laws, it’s very uncommon to actually prohibit crossing at anywhere apart from an intersection/crosswalk. It’s usually treated like this:
So it’s perfectly legal to cross in the middle of a block – so long as you aren’t interfering with traffic. If you’re walking along and there’s a break in traffic that gives you an opportunity to safely cross, you can knock yourself out. If your destination is directly across the street, it’s going to take you five minutes to walk to the light and back, and you think it’ll be faster to wait for a break in traffic where you stand, there’s no problem – that’s not jaywalking.
Jaywalking is when you blithely walk into the road without right-of-way, requiring drivers to take steps to avoid running your idiotic ass over.
I have a hard time imagining two people, in a short period of time, walking out into other traffic because one clueless driver stopped. Oh, sure-- because you stopped, I’m going to walk into oncoming traffic. WTF?
Then again, I’m probably a more-cautious pedestrian than most. It drives me up the wall when I’m walking on the sidewalk, about to cross an entrance to a parking lot, and some schmuck stops in a parallel lane, halfway into his turn into the lot, and graciously motions for me to cross. No fucking way am I walking in front of your car, dipshit – if the guy behind you fails to stop, he’s going to push you right over me. I recognize that the person is trying to be polite, so I smile at them as I gesture for them to go first – but goddamn it, I hate that – especially since, if they just made their damned turn instead of waiting for me, it wouldn’t hold me up at all. Instead I’m standing there doing there “No, really, after you!” dance. Twats.
Right with you, there, Larry Mudd. And if head-shaking won’t convey the message that I’m not accepting the right-of-way, I’ll sit down on the curb and start reading a newspaper. They usually get it, then.
And then they seem to demand that you take them up on their courtesy, like it’s a terrible sacrifice they had to make and you’re an ungrateful bastard.
If he does not remember, he cannot dismember. FREE OJ! YAAAAAAHHH!
Oh, I’m with you Roboto!
The other day, I went down to the gas station for a pack of smokes. The cashier was Mexican, and so was the person ahead of me in line. Can you believe that the cashier served the guy? The gall!!!
In the OP’s defence, he didn’t mention Australians but Tasmanians.
And you can certainly tell a Tasmanian from a block away. They’re the ones with two heads.
::d & r::
<nitpick on>Tasmania isn’t a foreign country. If you’re not Australian, Tasmania may be PART of a foreign country, but it’s not a country all by its lonesome.<nitpick off>
That being said, I’m terrified of jaywalkers. If I see people hovering on the side of the road who look like they might be about to fling themselves into the traffic, I’ll slow down just in case. Possibly the woman ahead of you saw that the jaywalkers were about to do something dangerous and thought she’d rather stop than run them over?
And depending where you are, more than one lot of idiot jaywalkers in a few blocks isn’t unlikely. Try driving in St Kilda on a Friday night; the trick is to get out without running anybody over.
I was going to make that joke, but I thought better off it, and now I’m sorry.