jaywalker

They think in terms of headaches it gives them,” a Gimbels department store sales manager told The Associated Press in 1975, while watching a police officer try to control jaywalkers the day after Thanksgiving.

The road is narrow, there are constant jaywalkers and too many drivers seem to feel that any stretch that isn’t bumper to bumper offers an open invitation to speed.

To shame pedestrians into compliance, they coined a new term, using the contemporary slang for fool: “jaywalker.”

“It seemed like bringing in the National Guard to deal with jaywalkers,” Bilas said.

The peafowl are also “prolific jaywalkers” that cause “traffic jams” during the morning rush hour, said Narro, whose school considered changing its mascot from Roadrunners to Peacocks five years ago.