that is crazy!
he doesn't deserve that ticket.

 

while him being hit makes it unfortunate he did break the law and jay walk. Heck he helped two old ladies do the same. what if they were hit and killed? instead he could have encouraged them/helped them get to the nearest crosswalk and help them across that.... plus with the signage etc on most crosswalks the chances are much better that no one would have been hurt...

sorry to play devils advocate... but really you break the law you pay the consequence.. getting hit sucked but isn't the consequence for jaywalking....
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It's not ticketing.

It's infrastructure restructuring.

 

They need to give more tickets in ohio then because our roads suck!

 

ridiculous

 

absurd

 

I agree with Nowhereman.

 

devil's advocate: If the guy had used the crosswalk the accident could very well have been avoided entirely.

I think that is the point of the ticket.

edit: beat by nowhere... thats what i get for opening a bunch of tabs at once.

 

Sure, jaywalking may have contributed to the accident, but I really feel some compassion in the situation was warranted. I mean, give me a break... a jaywalking citation?

 

Isn't Ohio the ticket capital of the world?

 

Thats what all you out of staters claim, but in 20+ years of driving in the Ohio river valley I've only had one moving violation issued by an Ohio cop. I had a state trooper pull me over in 97 coming back from Oz Fest in Columbus. My hair was longer, my car was a little more of a beater. I drove away with a warning.

 

We all talk about the cops being kind of pricky on here most of the time. I would strongly suggest if at all possiable spend a night riding with your local law. My brother is a cop in a small town and I will go ride with him once and awhile. You would be amazed at the stupid shit you see people do.

 

Oh I have, more than once for stories in different states and it isn't a easy job. I guess my take is, if speeding is the WORST thing you have to worry about in your town, then, by all means, go after it.

However, if people are getting shot and stabbed and murdered and disemboweled while cops nab people for going five miles over the speed limit on the nearby interstate to pad out the town's budget, that doesn't seem to be the best use of their time.

(Unless, of course, you can bring down a minivan full of drugs with a simple traffic stop. The cops in New London were getting better with figuring out when the drops were coming off the highway from New York City and got some good busts on some unassuming-looking vehicles. Stopping for stop signs in that Connecticut town is a really good idea.)

Cleveland cops, whom I've been talking to quite a bit since my upstairs neighbor allowed a bunch of drug thugs to move in and set up shop, are actually pretty good about their priorities. Drug activity in my area has clearly ramped up in the last two months, and they've been on my block for hours at a time just sitting and writing up their reports while keeping an eye on the "problem" houses.

I guess, really, it's all in how you look at speeding.

Is it a "gateway offense" in that people who speed and get away with it will move up to higher degrees of lawlessness?

Or is it a more visible symptom of already existing lawlessness on the part of the driver (DUI, drug shuttling, etc.)?

As for jaywalking? I do it all the time in Cleveland. Not much traffic downtown anyway.

 

You should hang out by UNOH sometime if you dont think ohio cops are bad. We had Sheriffs, Lima PD, and Staties camping all around outside of campus, and they would also patrol through campus. They would give us students tickets for whatever they could find and generally they were assholes about it. The only ticket I have ever gotten was from a storm trooper, and it was for excessive smoke with my chevette as I was leaving campus. I was pulled over one other time and i wasnt close to campus and that officer was cool as hell and gave me a warning.