So on sunday I almost got a Jaywalking ticket! Really......the cop stopped me and wanted to write me up, but at the last moment he got a call on his radio and had to take off! sweet deal for me! But i actually kinda wanted the ticket to put it on my fridge. For your reading enjoyment i'll put the background of Jaywalking and what it really means....


The word jaywalker is able to be traced back to 1917, though it may have been in use as early as 1900. It is generally considered to have originated in the United States, possibly from the city of Boston. It is a compound word of the words jay and walk; in this context, jay is used in the obsolete slang sense, referring to a stupid or dull person, or a rube, i.e. someone from a rural area and not familiar with "city ways". At the time, vehicles and traffic signals were a new concept, gaining popularity in the larger cities, so this term would have been used to describe newcomers who were unfamiliar with these recent developments and by extension, to ridicule people who behaved like newcomers but should have known better.