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- PeanutCheeseBar, on 02/27/2009, -8/+73Woman: "HELP ME OFFICER, I'M BEING RAPED!"
Officer: "I'm ticketing you for indecent exposure; you need to be more thoughtful about where you choose to participate in intercourse." - inactive, on 02/27/2009, -21/+76If you are "helping" elderly people cross a "large" street in traffic and you are not at a cross walk, you are NOT HELPING them, you are ENDANGERING them.
Guy deserves the ticket - krackajap, on 02/27/2009, -2/+33The car was helping a senior cross the street? What a nice car.
- Amlethus, on 02/27/2009, -1/+28That description is horribly worded
- mikbunn, on 02/27/2009, -1/+21A "Police Ticket Man" was hit by a "Car Helping Seniors Cross [the] Street"
- ManUnitdFan, on 02/27/2009, -2/+21Ummm, he didn't say "I'm ticketing you for being raped," he said "I'm ticketing your for indecent exposure." Indecent exposure, last time I checked, is against the law.
The perfect analogy? No. But you kinda missed the point. - scooterbaga, on 02/27/2009, -6/+19Sounds like there wasn't a crosswalk? Technically deserved the ticket, but only got it due to the high profile of the issue. I'm betting on most days a cop would wave hello at most.
Besides, what's up with dude heading full bore into a group of people with a truck? - ferrisnox, on 02/27/2009, -10/+22This is why people hate police.
- chenbot, on 02/27/2009, -1/+13"Police Ticket Man" hit by "Car helping Seniors Cross Street"
"Police Ticket Man" hit by car, helping seniors cross street
Police: Ticket man, hit by car, helping seniors cross street
"Police Ticket" man "Hit By Car", helping seniors cross street - doiveo, on 02/26/2009, -1/+12Some bad blood in that family.
- Dumbledorito, on 02/27/2009, -8/+18How would a car help the elderly across the street? Other than by propelling them through the air?
- inactive, on 02/27/2009, -1/+11People hate police because they are just another gang, but with power.
- newman8r, on 02/27/2009, -2/+11exactly. Jesus needs to read the comment before attempting to refute it.
- zuiquan, on 02/27/2009, -0/+8@strong, did you read the article? They were going to cross no matter what. There's no crosswalks there.
- RishiBoy, on 02/27/2009, -1/+9About 9 hours earlier with a readable title & description:
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Good_Samaritan_Ticketed_ ... - vilago, on 02/27/2009, -0/+7yea so when have you EVER successfully sued a cop, or the government for that matter? the government and it's officials never admit when they have been wrong. they just shrugg it off. god forbid you commit a little wrong-doing like saying "pig" or whatever in front of one (because we are all human and get angry and lose our temper. i know both of you idots have at some point in your life) you get thrown in jail for it. where's the ***** justice?
- AdrenalineJunky, on 02/27/2009, -1/+8Indeed. Call the grammar police on the submitter!
- saranagati, on 02/27/2009, -2/+8you dont need a crosswalk to legally cross the street. You can legally cross at any intersection where there's no crosswalk within 200(?) feet.
- BionicPimp, on 02/27/2009, -3/+9I don't know about every state, but in CA, if there isn't a crosswalk in 100ft ( that's not really far ) you can legally cross without it being jaywalking. my 2cents...it's classic cop CYA behavior. To bust the driver, you have to 'bust' the jaywalker so that in court, the driver can't bring up the jaywalker as a defense (although running over someones grandma is pretty much indefensible).
- Scrodes, on 02/27/2009, -1/+7lol When I first read the heading, I was trying to figure out what a police ticket man was.
- edboyy, on 02/27/2009, -1/+7moron
- vilago, on 02/27/2009, -3/+8i hate police because you don't have freedom of speech around them. if you talk back they can cuff you or accelerate your penalty. ***** all cops.
- Maddoktor2, on 02/27/2009, -3/+8Wow, talk about adding insult to injury...
- bradharrelson, on 02/27/2009, -1/+5Buried for horrible grammar.
- Zeigy, on 02/27/2009, -1/+5Yeah, I get the impression the truck driver got so impatient he waited for an opportunity and headed straight for the group, he was out for blood.
- Cerebron, on 02/27/2009, -0/+4That's what judges and juries are for, to determine if/how the law should be applied.
- webyatri, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4Police ticket a man who got hit by a car while he was helping seniors cross a street.
ok that makes sense, I mean grammatically. - banderwocky, on 02/27/2009, -2/+5Seriously, what the hell has happened to conventional wisdom? These guys just blindly follow a law to the 't'?
- MonkeyOverlord, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4Ticketing him for jaywalking is like arresting a man for having an unregistered handgun when he uses it to prevent a violent crime. It's not just unjust, it's stupid. You say "the law is the law?" You know what? The law is often an ass, and the police should have enough discernment to understand that they need to promote the outcome, an orderly society, not just mindlessly enforce the law. When you punish people for technicalities, you make them think that the system is more concerned with numbers (and too often it actually is!!) than the goal it was created to serve.
- firesphotons, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4Actually, in some states it does, it's called the good Samaritan law. We live in such a mentally ill society that we need a law to protect some poor soul who breaks a rib doing CPR or apparently jaywalks while trying to save a life.
- AkronGuy, on 02/27/2009, -3/+6Just because it happens all the time doesn't make it right.
- zuiquan, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4@mac, uh yeah because city buses are wicked easy to turn around whenever you feel like it.
- offrdbandit, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4In the defense of the police, ticketing the man may have been a formality in punishing the driver who hit him. I'm not a lawyer, and this certainly seems a little harsh, but it may be to keep the driver from having a legal "out" by doing everything exactly "by the book" so to speak.
It could be good old douchebaggery, but it's tough to say. - ygeoff419, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4@twinklyjesus
ROFL, thank you for displaying your stupidity..... now we all know not to listen to anything you say, ever! - inactive, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4That was my first thought, but according to the article, there was nowhere to cross. The only other thing I can think of is if the bus driver drove up to a place where he could turn around so he could drop them off on the other side of the street.
- 42Vindictive, on 02/27/2009, -2/+4Errr, running onto a highway? Think about your postulates.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 02/27/2009, -2/+4A worded horribly is that description.
- zuiquan, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2Uh brainiac, there were no cars coming. An ***** got impatient and peeled around from behind the bus. Nice job reading the article. Next time try not to skim or lie about having read it. I learned about that as a toddler. But since it such a looooooonnnnnnnnggggggg ***** article I'll just go ahead and paste the relevant text:
However, once the group had made it about halfway across the road, a "pick-up driver got impatient and passed in the left hand turn lane," McDonald said. "He plowed right into my stepdad -- but not before he pushed the old ladies and the other guy out of the way." - Nerys, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2Driver turning LEFT. Can't turn left if there is no intersection.
He should fight the ticket and SUE the police department for being "*****" the "penalty" if he wins should be "how not to be an *****" training. - aroedl, on 02/27/2009, -1/+3One is a so called power user and the other one is "a digg nobody". I guess you need hundreds of friends and shouting seems to be important. I'm not submitting stuff anymore, because it just doesn't make sense. Leave it to a handful of power users...
On the other hand it's also our fault. We should digg more stuff from the upcoming queue. - newman8r, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2you've been awarded the horrible description, that is.
- jessehadden, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2What a piece-of-crap cop. This is the reason why I felt only marginally pissed when someone tried to mug me a couple months ago, but felt actually and cravenly afraid when a cop walked past me yesterday.
- DoodleMaster, on 03/01/2009, -0/+1What if the car was kit?
- Nauree, on 02/27/2009, -0/+1Dugg for they're
- newman8r, on 02/27/2009, -0/+1lol... don't you mean 'redundant'
jk, but only kinda jk. - Premier, on 02/27/2009, -1/+2Take too long to cross he street in Denver? That's a plowing.
- bromac, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1Because you are in control of the car, you're responsible for what it plows into.
- Nerys, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1The pickup was AT A STOP WAITING TO TURN (RTFA)
he got IMPATIENT and apparently DROVE THROUGH THEM intentionally.
careless driving is all he gets charged with? Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and multiple counts of attempted manslaughter sounds more like it.
Regardless of whether anyone else broke the law jaywalking it does not mean you can INTENTIONALLY hit them and "its ok" because they broke the law first.
2 wrongs and all that. - FurtThePirate, on 03/01/2009, -0/+1So the cops ticked some guy for getting hit by a car while helping old people cross the street?
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