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Guess I shouldn’t jaywalk in Atlanta, huh?

You can actually get arrested for it. WTF? Jeeze, doesn’t arresting someone for jaywalking kind of imply that the police in Atlanta have nothing better to do?

“I come from a country where you can cross the road where you like,” said the visiting professor of global environmental history at Queen Mary College, University of London. “It hadn’t occurred to me that I wasn’t allowed to cross the road between the two main conference venues.”

The bespectacled professor says he didn’t realise the “rather intrusive young man” shouting that he shouldn’t cross there was a policeman. “I thanked him for his advice and went on.”

The officer asked for identification. The professor asked for his, after which Officer Leonpacher told him he was under arrest and, the professor claims, kicked his legs from under him, pinned him to the ground and confiscated his box of peppermints.

And really, the kind of treatment this guy got is indefensible. Ya think maybe we should save the roughing-up for the dangerous criminals? Just a suggestion. Although it is funny that the guy failed to recognize a police officer in uniform.