I admit that I have a habit of jaywalking, and I’ve even done it in front of police who couldn’t have cared less because I live in a small cruddy town like that. For those of you lame RULE FOLLOWERS that become distressed when there’s no crosswalk in sight, an item is being developed for you. It’s strange, makes absolutely no sense, and is named after a striped horse. The Portable Zebra Crossing is a roll-out crosswalk that you use whenever you want to cross somewhere but find no proper crosswalk. Apparently you’re supposed to roll this out then walk across it, however in the example the man is unrolling the crosswalk while he crosses the street with it. This seems to completely defeat the purpose of the item in question but maybe I’m just crazy. Are you supposed to unroll the crosswalk, run back across the street, then cross over the newly laid mat? Are you supposed to just throw it across the street while holding onto one end not unlike unrolling a blanket? Wouldn’t that scare the shit out of drivers coming down the way?
It’s being developed by some group called the International Chindogu Society. The following quote comes from their website:
Do you know what a chindogu is. Well, dogu is Japanese for “tool” and chin is Japanese for “weird” (not to be confused with the Japanese for “penis”, which is also chin). Thus, a chindogu is a weird tool. (Likewise, chinchin is a weird penis. However, under no circumstances is chindogu ever a penis tool. At least not yet.)
I like these guys already and take back everything negative I just said about the Portable Zebra Crossing. I request you all buy one immediately.
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