This is the trolley conundrum.

Glad you mentioned this. And not only in a coma with a TBI, but multiple fractures to both legs and her pelvis.  

Well, given that the idiot was unable to stop in time for a stopped cruiser, despite a valliant last ditch throw-the-anchor effort of the ATV rider, it is reasonable to assume that he also would not have been able to successfully stop or evade pedestrians.

If the trolley conundrum is either save innocent families from harm or harm a criminal (it’s not, btw) then I’m picking harm the criminal every single damn time.

This example needs more stars. 

Mmmm not even close. On one track you have potential families and people not breaking the law... on the other you have this shit stain who could care less about anyone other than themselves having fun. Fuck this guy he got exactly what he was looking for. 

Just a few days ago, up in Albany, some moron driving an ATV on a pedestrian path hit a student, and now she’s in the hospital in a coma with a TBI. Alexa Kropf, University at Albany student from Floral Park, in medically induced coma after hit-and-run - Newsday

One was not an active threat to anyone, the other is a guy riding a vehicle that weighs a few hundred pounds at 30+ miles per hour on a path meant for pedestrians lol

I am failing to see how the cop did not do *exactly* the right thing here. If moron was going too fast to stop in time to not hit a very plainly visible cop car, he was going too fast to not hit a pedestrian. Not like he came around a blind corner and there was the cop.

Two parties in the wrong you say?

If you were going too fast to avoid a stopped car, you were going too fast to avoid a pedestrian. I’m good with this one.

I’m normally on the ACAB side, but I’m really struggling to be displeased with what the cop did here.

“Unless your purchase is primarily dictated by cost . . .” For many, if not most potential buyers, cost IS a big part of the equation, especially when looking at midsize pickups. If funds are virtually unlimited, those lucky buyers will, most likely, be looking at their full-size options.

Genuinely curious, how is a parked car with a sign in the window any different from any other parked car? So long as it’s parked legally, what difference does it make to your life?

He tried to pay the ticket. It was issued unfairly, as he wasn’t leaving the vehicle parked like that, but he tried to pay it. The town representative decided to shake him down even more.

If you’re trying to sell your own car, in front of your own house, there should be no issue with this. This is what the Truck’s owner was trying to do.

Lighten up, Francis.

Seems like they would have to ticket every work vehicle on the road that had a phone number advertised on the side. Isn’t that “using the streets for commercial purposes?”

I can understand not wanting parking lots filling up with people trying to privately sell their cars, but if the vehicle is on private property or in a public parking area I don’t see what the big deal is. Sounds like this was in reaction to a specific situation 30 years ago, making the ordinance more of a reminder to…

Sounds to me like he was parking the vehicle in a public space for the purposes of transportation, not “for the purposes of selling it”. If that clause just had ‘sole’ in the middle of it, I’d call this a slam dunk for his lawyers, but as it stands I’d say he’s still likely to win.