One of my children lives away from home in an apartment complex right by a very busy street. In order to get to many of the grocery stores, the students need to get across this street. Many of the student take the easy way and jay walk rather than walk down half a block and go with the lights and the crosswalk. My daughter gets teased but she always goes the 'legal' way across the street. I encourage her in this approach. It's called obedience. Obedience isn't only to God and parents but to laws that are put into place for our welfare.
This really hit home, last week, when two eight year old girls in our city darted across the street to their school. They weren't in the crosswalk and a car couldn't stop in time. One of the girls died the next day. Why didn't their parents teach them right and wrong? The police came down hard on this situation and I heard they handed out over 40 jay walking tickets in that very, same area after the accident. The police also targeted other schools in regards to jay walking and handed out many tickets to the tune of a $40 fine for each one. The recipients of the $40 fine got off cheaply. They made it across the street and lived to be cited.
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