Population Control?

Consider this...you're driving down the street and you come upon a crosswalk. There are pedestrians at the crosswalk but it's not one of those crosswalks where you're just supposed to stop. It's a crosswalk with a WALK/DO NOT WALK light. Well, it doesn't actually say that anymore...it's a bright white glowy hand and a bright orange glowy hand...flashing at you. BLINK, BLINK, BLINK. Sometimes it's followed by a countdown. 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1...i call this the "how quickly can you cross the street before you get squished" timer.

Anyway...it's your desire to take a right turn and you get a green light. To make your right turn, you need to cross over a crosswalk but to your surprise, the pedestrians also have a walk light. So you both go. It's obvious who is going to win here, but who the hell was drunk when they programmed the lights? How does this make sense to anyone?? Is this a cruel form of population control or plain old simple stupidity.

Along those same lines...what's up with people that wave you on as if to let you pull out of a parking lot in front of them...and then they continue to move forward as if they're going to plow into you? And then they get mad when you don't go. Screw them.