Why Jay Walking is illegal: "In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them," says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of...

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

"In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them," says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. "But under the new model, streets became a place for cars and as a pedestrian, it's your fault if you get hit."

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

astrolite

Dummy Boy wrote:

"In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them," says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. "But under the new model, streets became a place for cars and as a pedestrian, it's your fault if you get hit."

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

Likewise, if you insist on walking on railroad tracks......you expect to have the right of way? Roads are built with road tax moneys (mostly from fuel taxes) while sidewalks and bikepaths are built with....you guessed it : fuel taxes! And are you refering to the habit of b****s in the ghettos walking in the middle of the streets to purposely block traffic? And their children running out into the street to watch the cars slamming on their brakes. Both stupid, arrogant, actions of people destined to be cut from the genepool!

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

astrolite wrote:

....you guessed it : fuel taxes! And are you refering to the habit of b****s in the ghettos walking in the middle of the streets to purposely block traffic? And their children running out into the street to watch the cars slamming on their brakes. Both stupid, arrogant, actions of people destined to be cut from the genepool!

Wow, I didn't even imply that...what a r****t....

jelun

Dummy Boy wrote:

Wow, I didn't even imply that...what a r****t....

I doubt that person is a r****t, it takes having some power to be a r****t. I think that the word you are trying for is bigot.

astrolite

jelun wrote:

I doubt that person is a r****t, it takes having some power to be a r****t. I think that the word you are trying for is bigot.

Try....Realist! only liberals use "R****t" to cover up the t***h!

jelun

astrolite wrote:

Try....Realist! only liberals use "R****t" to cover up the t***h!

Don't talk to me about it, I am a realist. I correctly IDed you.
As soon as you neglected to note that it is typically drunk white boys who walk the track you exposed yourself.

astrolite

jelun wrote:

Don't talk to me about it, I am a realist. I correctly IDed you.
As soon as you neglected to note that it is typically drunk white boys who walk the track you exposed yourself.

In your idol Klinton's case they weren't drunk, only witnesses to his drug deals!

alex Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa

jelun wrote:

Don't talk to me about it, I am a realist. I correctly IDed you.
As soon as you neglected to note that it is typically drunk white boys who walk the track you exposed yourself.

you can throw all kinds of curves and twist all you want you are still wrong

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

astrolite wrote:

Try....Realist! only liberals use "R****t" to cover up the t***h!

The t***h was in the article and you implied something that wasn't in the article or implied by me...so only an asshole (liberal of not) would come back with that excuse. If you prefer I will call you an asshole?

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

jelun wrote:

I doubt that person is a r****t, it takes having some power to be a r****t. I think that the word you are trying for is bigot.

You are correct....I jumped to conclusion calling him an asshole: that's offensive to assholes.

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

Dummy Boy wrote:

You are correct....I jumped to conclusion calling him an asshole: that's offensive to assholes.

As the old saying goes; it takes one to know one.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

PoppaGringo wrote:

As the old saying goes; it takes one to know one.

...you're right, asshole.

pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ

Dummy Boy wrote:

"In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them," says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. "But under the new model, streets became a place for cars and as a pedestrian, it's your fault if you get hit."

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

The jurisdictions placed pedestrian crossings at major intersections for the general public, however I have noticed that when making a right turn a lot of the walkers do not even look who's coming or not. some even jump out in front and give you a F-U look as if they had total rights over you. This bothers me as I don't want mom's old Plymouth damaged...

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

pappadeux wrote:

The jurisdictions placed pedestrian crossings at major intersections for the general public, however I have noticed that when making a right turn a lot of the walkers do not even look who's coming or not. some even jump out in front and give you a F-U look as if they had total rights over you. This bothers me as I don't want mom's old Plymouth damaged...

...it's damn cell phones.

pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ

Dummy Boy wrote:

...it's damn cell phones.

Sounds like we are on the same page, and under any circumstance's that's a good thing. Cell phones ? hell now it's smart phones. You can watch the f-----s molesting with the damn things, you would think that they just hit the jack pot.

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