Here in Colorado we have a city (Boulder) that puts pedestrian crossings damn near in the middle of the highway. Most cities would put a crosswalk at the street light. Not Boulder. They sneak them in wherever they think people may want to cross to enjoy some bird watching or take a stroll through an overgrown grass field.... This idiotic mentality leads to a situation where a stupid hippie hits the crosswalk light mid stroll without bothering to stop and give cars 5 seconds to slow down, cars slam on their breaks, all of a sudden 55mph traffic is stopped dead in the most unexpected place without any warning, the hippie gives you the finger because you were supposed to somehow anticipate him running across the highway and is mad you stopped 9 feet and 11" away instead of a solid 10" away, and the entire city government fuels this entitlement mentality by slapping every car who fails to stop on a dime with a wreck less endangerment ticket or whatever it is they charge you with. Boulder would ban every car that isn't a Prius or Subaru outback decorated with the obligatory coexist and Obama/biden stickers if they could. If north korea ever nukes America I pray that they bomb Boulder first.
