Jaywalking

Yesterday I was walking to another department at work. I was standing at a stoplight at a fairly busy intersection. There are two intersections that I routinely walk through around work, where I think my life is possibly in jeopardy. I have had at least a dozen close calls at them combined. Of course, after the first time at each intersection, I was pretty careful, so I guess only the first couple times were seriously close calls. So yesterday, I was standing at the light, waiting for it to turn green, and there were a couple people standing there with me. After awhile, there weren't any cars coming in either direction, so I decided I'd just cross without waiting for the light, that way I'd be less likely to get hit by the left-turners who don't really like to yield to the pedestrians. I took one step off the curb, and noticed a cop across the street turning right. I immediately started to step back onto the curb, and as I was doing so, the cop looked over and flashed his lights. I looked over at the guy waiting with me, and he just sort of shrugged and chuckled, looking knowingly at me as if to say, yep, the cops here are crazy, it's a good thing you stepped back. The cop ended up driving away after that. It was strange. You might all think I'm crazy for worrying about a jaywalking ticket, but the cops here seriously hassled a guy that I used to work with over it, and he ended up with a moving violation. Who knew?