Many visitors to Seattle (and other west coast cities) do not realize that expectations for pedestrians are different here than in other cities. Specifically, police officers will give tickets to people who cross at the middle of the block or against the light at the crosswalk. Yesterday, Chicago White Sox general manager Ken Williams (pictured above) found this out for himself when he was stopped outside Safeco Field before his team's game against the Mariners and given a ticket for jaywalking.
However, this is actually not the most important baseball/pedestrian safety event to ever take place in Seattle. The most important baseball/pedestrian safety event to ever take place in Seattle is the time in 2008 that a police officer stopped Manny Ramirez for jaywalking outside the stadium after a game and did not even know who Manny was.
Update (later that same day): White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen expressed interest in also getting a ticket for jaywalking.
2 comments:
You should go by Safeco and try to get a jaywalking ticket so then you can be like Ken Williams and Manny Ramirez!
I heard about this on PTI. I guess if you live in a safe city like Seattle, the cops have nothing better to do than give tickets for jaywalking. The "word" I have to type to post this comment is bamjbpar.
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