Learn the green cross code or get run down.

[GommeInc]

I dont think its that bad tbh. At the end of the day the world is a free place. just because you pay taxes to use the road doesnt mean its your road, if i want to cross the road, ill cross the bloody road, aslong as thier a safe distance between me and the car. It is also similar with zebra crossing when drivers think they have priority over them and dont stop for you to cross.

Just because you have right of way, doesn't mean you can immediately walk out and get hit by a car. The common courtesy of zebra crossings is to stop and watch for a car. A car cannot immediately stop and drivers cannot read your mind. You may not cross, it happens. But running out into the road without waiting for the car to go pass which obvviously cannot stop within 10 feet, isn't a good thing and the driver is normally at fault.

As jrh said, you don't have right of way until you are literally on it. Unless you really want to be hit by a few tons of metal and plastic...

[Virgin Mary]

I think they do it in America too.