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My observation is that CA pedestrians almost challenge me to hit them. They are so
aggressive that CA has got to have the highest pedestrian fatality rate in the nation.

ABSOLUTELY 200% TRUE.

And I say that as after about 7 years with lots of driving AND pedestrian experience
in the West Los Angeles Area.

These passive-agressive @$$Hole pedestrians come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.
BUT, the aged ones seem to be The Gray Panthers of Assinine Traffic Obstruction.
My personal thought is that these must be ill-tempered transplants from New York
and the East Coast. Or the urban paradises of Europe.

My own personal favorite Obstructive Pedestrian of All Time Award Nominee?
Late one night I was driving north on Sepulveda and stopped at (IIRC)
National for a red light.
As soon as the light went green I was just about ready to regularly drive on...but maybe
being a little tired AND noticing that the car to my left (I was in the right-hand lane)
hadn't pulled forward caused me to halt.

Just then I noticed a fellow laid FACE-down on a body-length dolly paddling himself forward
in the pedestrian zone...about two feet in front of me.

If I'd have driven forward and crushed/killed this urban "pedestrian",
I, to this day, have no idea if I'd killed some terribly "down and out"
medical case...or a prone version of Eddie Murphy faking disability in "Trading Places".

driving north on Sepulveda and stopped at (IIRC) National for a red light.

That's right on the "Homeless Migration Route" from downtown to Santa Monica....he was probably on his way over to the Whole Foods on San Vicente to set up his beggar's stand.