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In Boston (and maybe Massachusetts as a whole), jaywalking is a crime but the fee is literally $1. There was a Boston globe article about this, where some jour
by armchairhacker 3y ago
In Boston (and maybe Massachusetts as a whole), jaywalking is a crime but the fee is literally $1.
There was a Boston globe article about this, where some journalist spent his day intentionally and blatantly jaywalking everywhere, including right in front of cops. He didn’t get a single fine.
- ghaff 3y agoIt does vary. I'm not saying that in cities like Boston and New York, literally no one would ever get a ticket, but people pretty much will take whatever they can get away with for the most part. Historically, West Coast cities were considered to have at least a modicum of enforcement but I expect that's very scattered these days. So, yeah, there's technically a crime of jaywalking but in practice it's mostly limited to whatever you feel you can get away with absent being run over.
- soperj 3y ago> including right in front of cops Was the journalist white?
- nix0n 3y agoI found the article [0], which has the title "What does a guy have to do to get a jaywalking ticket in this town?" [0] https://www3.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/05/24/what-does-guy-have-get-jaywalking-ticket-this-town/9BDQOg1luOChfuwZhhevSK/story.html?arc404=true https://www3.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/05/24/what-does-...