Jaywalking

Kermit.de.frog · 03-09-2019 06:19PM #1

I want to find out about Jaywalking in Ireland.

Is Jaywalking as an offence in any way enforced in Ireland?

Has it ever been enforced?

I have never seen or known of anyone being spoken to by Gardaí for Jaywalking.

I Jaywalked today and feel I should turn myself in.

If I turned myself in for this crime to a Garda station would I be prosecuted?

I don't even know if it's an actual crime here??

03-09-2019 06:26PM

Yer man from Jamiroquai hasn't been arrested yet.

I'll get me coat.

kneemos · 03-09-2019 06:27PM

Didn't know you could get a leash on them.

daveorourke77 · 03-09-2019 06:38PM

All this criminal behaviour.

freshpopcorn · 03-09-2019 06:42PM

Yes, I walked out in front of a sedan before on the way back to my SUV whilst carrying my groceries which I was going to put in my trunk but I quickly jumped back onto the sidewalk.

Quantum Erasure · 03-09-2019 06:51PM

its only an offence within 15 meters of a pedestrian crossing, as far as i know

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-09-2019 07:01PM

The law here states a pedestrian must use a pedestrian crossing if they are within 15.24 metres (50 feet) of one. It's is not enforced unless the pedestrian had caused possible harm to others. I don't know if anybody has actually been fined though.

B0jangles · 03-09-2019 07:08PM

Apparently Jaywalking only became a crime after intense lobbying by the U.S. car industry. They worked really hard in the 1920's to get the law changed to ensure cars got precedence in the streets.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797

RobbieMD · 03-09-2019 07:08PM

https://youtu.be/C_Trq2tC5kQ

I think you’ll be grand

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 03-09-2019 07:13PM

Yes. Not really a crime here except in those rare cases.

I’m sure there are similar laws in most countries though.

Thelonious Monk · 03-09-2019 07:15PM

Tax and insurance and lights and high vis for pedestrians. What if one of them bumps my wing mirror, who's going to pay?

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 03-09-2019 07:16PM

Good discussion here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking

Largely it’s an American idea. The U.K. has no such law.

Hoboo · 03-09-2019 07:20PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Tax and insurance and lights and high vis for pedestrians. What if one of them bumps my wing mirror, who's going to pay?

You do know how jaywalking works yeah?

Greyfox · 03-09-2019 07:32PM

B0jangles wrote: »

Apparently Jaywalking only became a crime after intense lobbying by the U.S. car industry. They worked really hard in the 1920's to get the law changed to ensure cars got precedence in the streets.

It's definitely one of the dumbest laws out there

BrokenArrows · 03-09-2019 07:53PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I want to find out about Jaywalking in Ireland.

Is Jaywalking as an offence in any way enforced in Ireland?

Has it ever been enforced?

I have never seen or known of anyone being spoken to by Gardaí for Jaywalking.

I Jaywalked today and feel I should turn myself in.

If I turned myself in for this crime to a Garda station would I be prosecuted?

I don't even know if it's an actual crime here??

No to all of your questions.

Kermit.de.frog · 03-09-2019 07:56PM

But seemingly yes it is an offence, if less than 15.24 meters from crosswalk as the esteemed poster in post #7 has pointed out

Montage of Feck · 03-09-2019 08:07PM

Stay on the footpad OP.

paleoperson · 03-09-2019 08:57PM

This has to be one of the dumbest threads I've seen in a long time.

"Jaywalking" is an American term, Irish people don't use it and neither do people in the UK. It's a strictly American term, or at least it's not used in Ireland. I'm sick of people seeing American words on tv and thinking they can use it just the same here.

Of course it's not an offence, it has never been an offence. Did your mom ever tell you it was an offence? Did a teacher ever say it was an offence? It's an American peculiarity.

EmmetSpiceland · 03-09-2019 09:04PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Yes, I walked out in front of a sedan before on the way back to my SUV whilst carrying my groceries which I was going to put in my trunk but I quickly jumped back onto the sidewalk.

Ah now, don’t get “sour” because someone else got to this “inane” topic for a thread before you.

I’m sure you’ve got a few lined up for the next couple of nights.

03-09-2019 09:08PM

Sure the tech us the safe cross code for fook sake.

gwalk · 03-09-2019 09:09PM

BrownFinger wrote: »

Sure the tech us the safe cross code for fook sake.

Were you absent the day they did spelling lessons

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-09-2019 09:10PM

I like to use the sidewalk

Side walking

boombang · 03-09-2019 09:12PM

There's a special type of jaywalking to be seen in Dublin: the junkyjaywalk, whereby a heroin addict lurches out into the road in the expectation that drivers will brake or avoid them.

Gregor Samsa · 03-09-2019 09:19PM

paleoperson wrote: »

"Jaywalking" is an American term, Irish people don't use it and neither do people in the UK. It's a strictly American term, or at least it's not used in Ireland. I'm sick of people seeing American words on tv and thinking they can use it just the same here.

So what’s the Irish/UK word for it?

freshpopcorn · 03-09-2019 09:29PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Ah now, don’t get “sour” because someone else got to this “inane” topic for a thread before you.

I’m sure you’ve got a few lined up for the next couple of nights.

Yes.
''Why do shopping malls have loads of carts in the parking lot?''

paleoperson · 03-09-2019 09:31PM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

So what’s the Irish/UK word for it?

Walking across the road when you don't have the right of way.

Quantum Erasure · 03-09-2019 09:32PM

...to get to the other side!

Samuel T. Cogley · 03-09-2019 09:32PM

Pedestrians have priority at junctions in Ireland.

Gregor Samsa · 03-09-2019 09:37PM

paleoperson wrote: »

Walking across the road when you don't have the right of way.

So there isn’t a word for it.

If you experienced the feeling that an occurrence had happened before, would you describe it as “a feeling that the present occurrence has happened before” or would you use the term “déjà vu”?

highdef · 03-09-2019 09:43PM

paleoperson wrote: »

I'm sick of people seeing American words on tv and thinking they can use it just the same here.

Did your mom ever tell you it was an offence?

So you're sick of people using American words here yet you used the American term "Mom" to describe mother.... Ha ha

Sarn · 03-09-2019 09:43PM

paleoperson wrote: »

Of course it's not an offence, it has never been an offence. Did your mom ever tell you it was an offence? Did a teacher ever say it was an offence? It's an American peculiarity.

(7) On a roadway on which a traffic sign number RPC 001 [pedestrian crossing] has been provided, a pedestrian shall not cross the roadway within 15 metres of the crossing, except by the crossing.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/si/182/made/en/print

Jaywalking

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