Pedestrians and the Right of Way...

Here in Australia, pedestrians have the right of way only in a designated crosswalk, if there are no lines, the car has the right of way and you should seriously look both ways before crossing. Most streets are two-way, so whether crossing at a crosswalk or jaywalking, look right, then left then proceed. I cannot tell you how many times I've seen people just walk across the street, staring straight ahead, as if there are no cars approaching them, when in fact I'm bearing down on you at 60kph (38mph) and you better walk faster, but nooo they proceed to stroll as they are entitled to cross and the cars should stop. Um, no, the only way a driver is required to stop is if you're in a lined crosswalk, but nowadays so many people have this air of entitlement, it's disgusting. What happened to obeying the rules? When it comes to the speed and force of a car against an average sized person, guess what, the car's going to win, you'll either have broken bones or be dead, just cause you thought, I'll take my time crossing the street with cars approaching at full speed. Yeah, you're smart. 

At the moment we live across the street from a school therefore there is a crosswalk right in front of our building and in the morning and between 2-4 there is a crossing guard that makes sure the cars stop for children and people crossing. The thing is because it's a crosswalk, means that any time of the day or night cars need to stop if there is a person crossing, if they don't and a cop happens to be there, they can get a fine. What annoys the crap out of me is how many times I've seen people just drive right by, they just look straight ahead or they're busy on their phones or they just don't care. I think there should be more police presence near school crosswalks, if more people get ticketed, maybe more people will then stop when pedestrians are trying to cross the street. There was one time my husband and I were crossing the street in the crosswalk and this wanker in an SUV was trying to give us the hurry up and it looked like he wanted to drive right through my husband, my husband is no puny string bean, so if you hit him a few things are going to happen, one, you'll fuck up your car as he's a big guy, second, you'll go to jail and you'll get fined for going through a crosswalk, because I will remember the make and model of your car whether it's a ute a car or whatever it is you're driving. I'm very into cars and will know the difference between a Falcon and a Commodore. Ok, venting over.