Stopwalks: They're there for a reason

I had the misfortune to be driving today when I experienced a common college part of life: jaywalking. I have no problem with jaywalkers, heck I do it myself all the time. But the person I saw doing it today has to take the cake. I was trying to turn right onto Jordan from Third, but a young lady started to jaywalk. Light turns yellow and I console myself and say, "Hey, I'll just right on red it."\nBut no, she stops halfway through the lane and pulls out her iPod. Meanwhile, the light has turned green, and cars have started to move. Then her cell phone starts to ring, or maybe the song she just turned to spontaneously caused her to remember to call a friend. So she stops again pulls out her cell phone and then begins to shuffle over to the other side while fiddling with her phone. I wish the story stopped there. Oncoming cars have started to honk their horn, and the woman does the "I'm on the phone" signal. Call me crazy, but the people that I see on the freeway and city streets motivate me to run across the street through the crosswalk lest I be run over by the drivers who are probably drunk or talking on their cell phones while driving and will run me over. So now my recommendation is that there be no more of these crosswalks anymore. Just paint over them; take down the signals too. That way if you have to cross the street, you know there is no "safe" place, and Darwin's theory of evolution says that bad street-crossers will eventually be weeded out of the gene pool. Course that's me.