I'm so glad I left. How close does an intersection have to be to a school to get a crosswalk? Ball State's campus is less than a quarter of a mile from this intersection.

Unfortunately the street I live on in Denver doesn't even have and I'm two blocks from DU's campus. I think I'm going to have to do a little crosswalk painting too.

If you think that a stop sign that's regularly ignored isn't a problem, then you probably won't find many people to agree with you here. Maybe his actions weren't the most effective way to deal with the problem, but the problem was there.

(See http://www.theindychannel.com/news/15190982/detail.html)

A couple of other thoughts: One motivation for going after Stump is the fear of liability for the city or county if, for instance, a person walking across the crosswalk is hit and the crosswalk hasn’t been maintained. Stump himself may face a liability claim, though he probably doesn’t care, assuming he even has thought about it.

I note this not as a defense of the ticket or the prosecution, but this is definitely the kind of thing bureaucrats think about and we should remember that, even when they are doing block-headed things.

Beyond that, the vast majority of prosecutors will go ahead with many cases because of their need to maintain a good relationship with the police. Again, this is not to defend McKinney, whose judgment seems suspect, but to think about why this case has gotten so far.

Stump defends himself on the non-appearance charge by saying he didn’t know he’d been charged a second time, which sounds plausible. (This should serve as a cautionary tale to anyone who urges that people who have suspended licenses be automatically arrested and jailed – sometimes it does turn out that notices do not get sent out, go to wrong addresses, etc.)

Bravo Mr. Stump!

P.S. I'm empowered and I thank you.

But there's a huge amount of judgment involved when a prosector decides 1) whether to go ahead with a charge like this and 2) whether to JAIL someone for missing a court date on a charge like this.

It sure sounds like a classic case of the overzealous prosecutor at work here, and one with lousy judgment as well. Mr. Stump would not be in jail if it weren't for painting the crosswalk, so the headline seems pretty fair to me.

Back in the good old days here in New York City, cops used to ticket do-gooders for things like 1) taking photos of deteriorating conditions in subway stations and even, God forbid, 2) taking a paint brush to a graffiti-marred station in their neighborhood.

I don't think there were arrests in those cases, but often law enforcement personnel and prosecutors think that they must challenge anyone who is making a statement out of the norm about government mismanagement. The Muncie case seems similar.

There is nothing violent or illegal in rope speed bumps in Mexico: they are installed by government with nice signs warning of speed bumps. It is a good way ( maybe the only way)to make a speed bump on a dirt road , which is the case in many villages of Yucatan. It is also a very green way to do it : it was installed in a biosphere where everything is carefully environmentally friendly.

It is time to go visit the world and learn to do simple things again. The ingenuity of Stump is admirable and the fact he'd be arrested for doing a right thing that can save lives shows where our culture has gone .

we need to create a stump day where all of us go and paint the neck downs etc we have been waiting for

Stump is the man ...

"No vehicle exceeding 60 inches in height may park within 25 feet of corner"

I am not sure of my measurements but I was nearly done in last night in Brooklyn because I could not see oncoming traffic through an SUV parked near the corner. I would think a line on the sign would let drivers know if their vehicle made the limit.

Whitney Stump: Come to Brooklyn! Your services are needed! What a gift for your community and that is an amazing paint job.

I used to live by an intersection in Dallas that looked exactly like this. Rolling stops were the norm, and crossing the street was treacherous and amounted to a game of "dodging the Suburban". I don't see what the problem is with reminding motorists that they should at the very least be aware of pedestrians. I wonder how people on his block reacted.