Then he’s falling for a number of simple heuristical cognitive biases. It’s great that he wants to serve and protect, but he’s crazy if he thinks that giving out tickets for things like this will save lives. He’s producing a net negative in his community.

Wait, was this a highway or a residential? Google-mapping the area near where the arrest is reported seems to suggest there are plenty of places where she wouldn’t have been in violation of the law for doing what the officer said she was doing.

Yes, but you do get to ignore the cop if you’re not disobeying the law. That is how functioning society works. If what she was doing WAS unlawful then the officer should have said he was charging her but you can’t just arrest someone without charging them. The officer is bound by due process, and in that he failed.

But there’s no evidence that she was on the part of the road for cars, nor that she was on the part of the road with sidewalk.

But it’s not clear there was sidewalk present where she was running.

Running in the street is not illegal. Running in the street over the solid white line is illegal if there is no sidewalk. This woman was running inside the line and where there was no sidewalk.

It’s illegal to run in the (driving portion of the) road with traffic (if there is an available sidewalk).

The hard evidence that she actually broke any laws is somewhere between ‘scant’ and ‘non-existant.’

It’s not clear that she was in the wrong; the local law states that running in the main part of the road is illegal (she claims she was inside the line, not in the driving portion of the road) if there is no sidewalk available (the officer has no footage of her running where there is a sidewalk). So there is scant…

That’s a false equivalency if I’ve ever heard one. Running on the road is not even close to as dangerous or unnecessary as a car driving on a sidewalk.

Sorry, is there something about comments I’ve made before that invalidates whatever I’m saying here? Or do you just find my perspective disagreeable, and therefore you ignore any argument I’m going to make? Not that I feel compelled to garner your attention, I’m just curious whether you make casual logical errors on a…

Team USA dominated, but their victory was never quite as assured as UConn’s seems to be. Plus those were players who were playing for teams that we had watched that WERE competitive with each other. And nationalism is a thing that exists.

Seconding this. I had a partner who would orgasm very easily from penetration, but it became very painful soon after orgasm. I tend to get very, very soft as soon as I finish. So the timing had to be perfect or one of us was going to be very grumpy. If I finished too soon, I couldn’t finish her. If I lasted too long…

Nazis were also strictly against private gun ownership, in favor of socialized healthcare, in favor of state run education, and a long list of other perfectly progressive things that I’m sure you would support. Simply saying “don’t side with Nazis” without explaining what’s wrong with a particular proposition is…

I find the idea of a “personal” account being separate from any other account kind of nonsensical when the account is available to the public. By making it public, it ceases to be personal in any sense of the word.

I’m assuming this is a reference to the questionable arms-out-at-the-finish that put Pretty White Girl (TM) Molly Huddle in first and an African athlete second at the recent New York City half marathon by a fraction of a second.

Also FYI: running tights are not the same thing as leggings, and are pretty much standard wear for men who run (especially in colder places like Chicago).

At a guess, that fact that he does best on college campuses probably contributes a little bit to that.

Agreed. I browse other stories here and there, but I really only come to Deadspin to see more mainstreamed coverage of running than the nuanced looks I get on flotrack and letsrun. This is my only source of mainstream articles about running.

Because the median finishing time at the majors (New York, Chicago, LA, etc.) used to be in the mid 3:30s, and has slowed down to 4:15. Oprah ran 4:29. Breaking 4:00 means that you can only run a little over a minute faster per mile than OPRAH. There has been a cultural shift in marathoning in the past 15-20 years…