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holgerschurig • today at 6:56 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

That law isn't about jaywalking. The concept of the US-english word "jay" doesn't exist ). There is no german language equivalent.

Also, this is one of the paragraphs that is just there. It's not enforced. Do you know any German that ever get fined for it? Is the police out with cameras looking for slow pedestrians? Naa, they are out with cameras looking for too speedy cars instead!

) maybe "Landei" ? But it's never used in traffic context. We simply had a car-lobby creating vile words to modify law-makers behavior like it happened in the USA at ca. 1910.