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[trochee]

I just got a jaywalking ticket for running across Broadway in the crosswalk with no traffic coming, in order to catch a bus. The cops pulled their car out around the corner and honked at me.

and of course I missed the bus while they wrote me up. And then I missed one of my favorite professor's talks.

it's $46, which is almost not worth fighting. I am fairly sure that if I went to court over this, the mitigation would reduce it hugely (or throw it out). But I'd really rather not.

gah. some days it would have been better to stay home.

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[trochee.livejournal.com]

Seattle cops have had a chip on their shoulder since the WTO in 1999, as I understand it. I'm not the only person I know in Seattle to get a jaywalking ticket, either.

I'm particularly annoyed for getting a ticket for such a safe jaywalking -- I see people jaywalk staggering drunk in the middle of the block, into traffic, but I was in the crosswalk, with no traffic, and I'd looked both ways (sober, too!).

ah well. not much to do about it though.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

it's been much longer than since the wto.
i got my first jaywalking ticket here in 1995.

it's the law and they are stinkers about it.
it's ridiculous.