An Excerpt From a North Carolina Travel Guide

"... In Chapel Hill, driving should generally be avoided at all costs, due to the extremely popular town-wide pastime of crossing the road. A Chapel Hill resident usually initiates a street-crossing by aggressively darting out into traffic. If this opening gamble does not result in the pedestrian being run over, the person's gait immediately degenerates into a drunken meander across the road. As a driver, you should never attempt to carry on your way once the pedestrian is out of your immediate path - even if the light is green - for 2 reasons: 1) other, less-confident street-crossers (recent transplants to the city, no doubt) often become emboldened by the first pedestrian's success at stopping traffic, and will then initiate their own belated crossing. 2) A Chapel Hill street-crosser is often wearing headphones and will never ever look directly at the traffic bearing down on him or her. Thus, there is little indication that he or she is aware of the traffic at all, and it is therefore best if all cars remain stationary until the street-crosser has safely reached the other side of the road. At this point, the street-crosser can begin searching in earnest for another road to cross, and the driver may continue on until the next crosswalk, which is usually roughly 60 feet away."