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posted July 08, 2006 05:48 AM         

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in the land of the free? Even in this godforsaken hellhole of a UK prison it's not against the law.

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posted July 08, 2006 01:43 PM         

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Because it makes driving even more of a nightmare than it already is in Los Angeles.

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posted July 08, 2006 02:46 PM         

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When pedestrians haphazzardly dart out into traffic, people get hurt and/or killed. Then, the driver is held accountable - Some laws are in place just to protect people from the effects of stupidity.

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posted July 08, 2006 05:07 PM         

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you guys dont have any traffic laws over there do ya mak?

last time i was in the uk everyone was driving straight at me up the wrong side of the road too!!

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posted July 08, 2006 05:29 PM         

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So that you don't get runover.

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posted July 08, 2006 07:33 PM         

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Hehe Petron..afraid you'd find similar issues here in Australia too

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posted July 08, 2006 09:18 PM         

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Can someone define 'jaywalking' for me?

Ids it simply crossing the street without a pedestrian sign/crosswalk in a straight line? Or is it walking diagonally across traffic, like at a four way, you go between both the roads?

It sounds like an extremely silly question, I know.. but I really don't know.

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posted July 08, 2006 09:24 PM         

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I guess it's just cutting across the street somewhere other than a cross-walk.

We all do it, but you wouldn't want to do it on the 401, or any busy street for that matter.

It's one of those "relative" laws, of course.

Small towns don't generally worry about it.

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posted July 10, 2006 04:57 AM         

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I uphold the right of every man to get run over in his own fashion(women too of course). Sounds a sensible thing, but I'd like to know if we have more traffic accidents than you do. I bet we don't

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posted July 10, 2006 11:44 PM         

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It's walking across the unmarked area of the street not designated for pedestrians. It's to protect ourselves from ourselves.

and...what everyone else said

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