Pet Peeves!

[russotto]

Originally posted by sycamore


The first part is not completely true.

From the Drivers Manual of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:

"A steady yellow light tells you that a red light will soon appear. If you are driving toward an intersection and a yellow light appears, slow down and prepare to stop. If you are within the intersection or cannot stop safely before entering the intersection, continue through carefully."

The driver's manual, though, is not authoritative, and the law says nothing about slowing down.

Realistically though, how many times has this happened to you? Did you call the police? I would wager that you if you had to plead your case in a camera situation, you'd probably win.

I've been hit deliberately only in that one incident. I did not call the police. Deal with the police voluntarily? No, thank you. Given that I didn't call the police, I figure my story in court would be met with "I don't believe you, guilty". Or, as has been reported in Maryland, even before I tell my story -- the judge started the court session by announcing that anyone who had a red light ticket with a picture showing their car over the line was guilty.

As a side note, the Commonwealth should seriously consider adding front license plates to cars. If you have someone causing you trouble from behind, at least you could possibly get a tag number.

I wouldn't put mine on anyway, so I have to oppose that idea...

Unless you have a DNR order, or someone invokes power-of-attorney privileges you've given to them, the hospital is going to do whatever they can to save you before harvesting your organs.

You can believe that if you like, but I figure doctors are human like the rest, and if doing a little less effort to save someone they have little sympathy for in order to harvest organs can save someone they have more sympathy for, they might just do it.