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jay walking

n. walking across a street outside of marked cross-walks and not at a corner, and/or against a signal light. If there is vehicle traffic or clear markings of a place to cross, this is a traffic misdemeanor subject to fine, and may be (but not conclusively) contributory negligence in the event of injury to the jay walker by a vehicle.

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'Jaywalking is a concern and people need to be careful.
Abu Dhabi Police have released CCTV footage of several pedestrians that were caught crossing the road from undesignated areas, which was uploaded on their social networking sites as part of an awareness campaign against jaywalking.
In the new video, Coakley goes out of his way to mock the laws and social norms in Taiwan by littering and jaywalking. In an intentional reference to streamer CJayride's littering and a British man who was recently chastised for tossing a banana peel from a car, Coakley also chucks a banana peel on the street and justifies it by saying, "It's biodegradable."
Nearly 65,000pedestrians werefined in Dubai last year for jaywalking.
Dealing with subjects as diverse as Glastonbury, Storage Wars and jaywalking, the slightly dishevelled comedian - who now lives in the UK - poked fun at himself at every turn and didn't spare the Scots in the audience, Americans as well as his fellow Canadians.
Forget signals, he said, jaywalking is a rite of passage.
For many people, this defiant act of jaywalking alone puts Brown and his friend in the wrong.
TEHRAN (FNA)- A US teenager was detained with the use of force and hit several times for jaywalking in Stockton, California.
Dubai/Sharjah: Pedestrians in Al Nahda found 'crossing' over from Dubai to Sharjah using a sandy stretch are being fined for 'jaywalking'.
A similar approach is urgently required to stop this practice of jaywalking.
About 500 drivers got traffic tickets for right-of-way violations, as opposed to 502 pedestrians who were sanctioned for jaywalking.
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