I’ve jaywalked myself, when traffic is light and you just need to get across the street it seems stupid to have to go around your backside to get to your elbow by walking to the marked crosswalk. But, it there for a reason and it’s been made into law for a reason, and that reason doesn’t involve wanting to inconvenience you or anybody else. It’s there to keep pedestrians from being run down by passing vehicles. That’s an agreeable goal, I’d think even militant, racially-oriented activists would admit. So, use the crosswalks. Pretty simple, really. We’re all better off for it.
I was of the belief that pedestrians *always* have legal right of way, crosswalks or not, and I always stop to let people cross, just out of courtesy.
Apparently, it’s only really “illegal” to run them down if they’re in a crosswalk.
Case in point, people often get killed crossing the Dual Highway, outside of Hagerstown and no one has been charged for hitting them, since they’ve all been hit when crossing in random areas.
At least once, the person who hit and killed someone was a Hagerstown cop.