Word: jaywalkers
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...EVER crosses the road unless the beeping light is green. If you jaywalk, you’re a foreigner, or drunk. Or possibly both...
Most pedestrian accidents, according to Branyan, happen because people jaywalk or drivers ignore existing traffic laws - which require, for example, yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalk, heeding the speed limit and stopping at red lights. A pedestrian dies every 110 minutes in the United States, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and there has been an increase in the last few years in pedestrian deaths in Washington and other urban areas across the country, prompting governments in the D.C. metro area to launch a new advertising campaign aimed at increasing pedestrian safety. It is both "edgy and blunt...
...quite different: Oktoberfest! FM lists its fifteen favorite things about the undercelebrated holiday. 1. Convenience. Oktoberfest fun takes care of pre-gaming for the night. 2. The celebration in the Square concentrates tourists into one place, so they can trip over each other for a change. 3. One can jaywalk across JFK without getting hit by a Masshole driver. 4. Beer. 5. One can jaywalk across JFK while wasted, and still not get hit. 6. Beer goggles aren’t as cloudy in the daylight. 7. Peeing on John Harvard. During the day. In front of/in splatter range...
...which also wants to tackle such social evils as littering and spitting, says jaywalking has dropped by half since the campaign began. But some residents are unimpressed. "It's an inhumane abuse of government power," says Shanghai marketing executive Suzzane Zhang. But would she jaywalk herself? "No, never...
...jerseys. Reality check. All that sleep must have dulled your brain cells. These guys are Japanese. You're not one to stereotype, but the last time you checked, Japan was a land of pachinko-playing automatons, dull conformists who wear uniforms to work and school, and who never, ever jaywalk. When did they start having fun? When did they all become blond...