Jaywalk

Not all policeman is scary. 

I was walking with a mate from George St to Elizabeth St on Martin Place.
Before arriving at Pitt St, my mate saw a policeman standing across the street. "Ohh look at that, a police, they really bumped up the security around here, huh?"

When we arrived at Pitt St, the pedestrian light was red.
We waited for a second before the thought of jaywalking pops up.
It is quite usual for people to jaywalk on Pitt and Castlereagh at Martin Place reason being the streets are not vehicle-busy after all.
I looked to the left. No vehicle. To the right, no traffic. To the front. Policeman.

Me: Hmm.
Mate: ...
Me: Should we jaywalk right in front of a police?
Mate: I don't know man. Should we? There's no car, really.

Before long, more pedestrians arrived and were also waiting for the lights. Some of them tourists.
So the tourists started crossing - obviously not knowing that they could get a good 90dollars fine for that.
Then a few locals did. But they did it with watchful eyes on the policeman. He was at ease, leaning against the traffic post.

We decided to follow the crowd, also with watchful eyes on the poor police. If anything were to happen, we would be the first to get caught as we were nearest to the police.

All of a sudden, the police realised the number of eyes who were 'watching' him.
He started smiling to himself.

Police (looking at all the fearful pedestrians): Why???? I'm not here to give out tickets. I'm just here waiting to get a lift. 

We LOL-ed.

Perhaps the authority should turn the green man on by default and only change it to red when there's vehicle approaching. Most of the time, the people who programme traffic light timers are not the frequent pedestrians there themselves.

15 secs spent waiting for the green man, while there's no vehicle passing through is like a great 15 mins wasted. They should start reviewing how the lights work to increase efficiency across the city.

Time waits for no man.