Montreal police should give loitering tickets to people standing like sheep at red lights.
That is, after all, what loitering is: "to stand or wait around idly or without apparent purpose, to travel indolently and with frequent pauses."
Montrealers are increasingly occupying street corners like lobotomized nowhereians.
A new generation of obeisant urban dullards thinks it legit to interrupt their bipedal progress, to clog up our corners and imitate potted plants at sidewalk intersections.
Don't know what kind of bulbs they're using these days but traffic lights have hypnotized Montrealers into pedo-paralysis.
Get your feet moving. No cars coming? Move! Push those Pumas. Clap those clogs. Lighten those loafers. Take a step...now two...you're almost through.
Who'd have imagined that one day the bold-spirited citizens of Montreal would act like they need border collies encircling them, that a light would transform them into statuary frogs on logs, inert and lifeless waiting for a green.
I blame cops and their misguided jaywalking ticket cash grab for slowing foot traffic down just to further privilege the already-much faster and almighty car traveler.
I urge cops to redress the balance, stop giving jaywalking tickets and start giving loitering tickets to those who don't cross when there's obviously no danger.
No cars coming? Cross! Scared of a getting a jaywalking ticket? Well how about being scared of a loitering ticket instead?
Nobody wants your sorry shoes wearing out the pavement. Your kids are waiting for you. You've got work to do. Move it.
That is, after all, what loitering is: "to stand or wait around idly or without apparent purpose, to travel indolently and with frequent pauses."
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| Light in TMR makes pedestrians wait 60 seconds to cross. Ha! (photo Mitch Hyman) |
A new generation of obeisant urban dullards thinks it legit to interrupt their bipedal progress, to clog up our corners and imitate potted plants at sidewalk intersections.
Don't know what kind of bulbs they're using these days but traffic lights have hypnotized Montrealers into pedo-paralysis.
Get your feet moving. No cars coming? Move! Push those Pumas. Clap those clogs. Lighten those loafers. Take a step...now two...you're almost through.
Who'd have imagined that one day the bold-spirited citizens of Montreal would act like they need border collies encircling them, that a light would transform them into statuary frogs on logs, inert and lifeless waiting for a green.
I blame cops and their misguided jaywalking ticket cash grab for slowing foot traffic down just to further privilege the already-much faster and almighty car traveler.
I urge cops to redress the balance, stop giving jaywalking tickets and start giving loitering tickets to those who don't cross when there's obviously no danger.
No cars coming? Cross! Scared of a getting a jaywalking ticket? Well how about being scared of a loitering ticket instead?
Nobody wants your sorry shoes wearing out the pavement. Your kids are waiting for you. You've got work to do. Move it.