Everett True Comics

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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Respect pedestrians like Everett True! (October 19, 1914) (lemmy.world)

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Printed 110 years ago today in The Day Book. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

The concept of criminalizing jaywalking might seem like an intuitive one, one that was designed with the safety of the pedestrian in mind. But in fact, the exact opposite is true. Jaywalking was invented by the auto industry as a way of shifting the blame for traffic crimes off automobile drivers and onto pedestrians, rather than out of an actual desire to decrease the number of pedestrian deaths due to automobiles.

From: https://www.grunge.com/721704/the-truth-about-how-jaywalking-became-a-crime/