No, that a human could be standing near but not in a crosswalk, talking. The law says you must treat them as attempting to cross, even though it is obvious they are not. Caress like this abound.

I don't think the law says that you need to treat people not entering a crosswalk as attempting to cross it. We can play this game all day if you just want to be obtuse about using words. But nothing you described was impossible to work out, nor was the scenario you most immediately described in your recent post even remotely troublesome. Do you mean if people are in the crosswalk but don't cross? How often does that really happen? Ironic considering that in this case, the pedestrian was in the crosswalk and the car drove through anyway. Pretty dangerous IMO