You wouldn’t BELIEVE the tax dollars being spent on this.

An overturned appeal is automatically allowed to be appealed, as I understand it. Someone with better information (preferably a link to a direct source for relevant procedure) please step in and correct me.

A case where instead of a $25k fine (which is in the rule book) a guy is being prevented from playing in four games that would have cost him $2.25 million last year and could cost him $250k this year (neither of which are in the rule book) because he was found (maybe) guilty in a proceeding where the judge and jury…

Our little nerd subculture is full of “those guys.” Stand tall and proud, friend.

Lots of people airing out some good explanations below, I’ll add one more semi-non sequitr. In the 4x800, there’s a mass start instead of everyone starting in lanes and then merging. This means that the opening leg is very pushy/shovy and can be very messy. So some teams might put a physically bulky, stronger runner…

I’m not questioning that one of them said “slit eye” but all I heard was “slutty” bunch of times. Can someone give me a time on the video above where I should be looking?

They could do a redemption arc and have it not be a repeat of Vader. Not the best example, but Zuko in the animated show Avatar: the Last Airbender had a terrificly done redemption arc across the three seasons and even within the final season. Dynamic, emotional, relevant to the plot; mimicing that would be fine with…

Actually, gays and lesbians are animals. So are straight people. We’re all animals. It’s astounding to me that people forget that, but then I work in the sciences so I’m a bad example.

It depends. I live in Buffalo, NY, and the road that makes up the first two mile of my normal morning loop goes north/south, with my route taking me north. The roads are icy in Buffalo in the winter, and when the sun rises in the east, it hits the west (at that point left) side of the street and melts the ice sooner,…

Wellllll, it’s complicated. More white people are killed by police than black people each year (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…). But white people make up a much larger percentage of the population (http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/…) so this number is deceptive; relative rates matter. That said, black…

Blacktop is objectively softer than concrete. Are you disputing that, or are you disputing that runners should take advantage of that fact to prevent injuries?

I think that’s what a lot of people are finding problematic; it doesn’t appear that there were sidewalks where this woman was arrested.

Re-read the article, look on GoogleMaps where she was arrested. Lots of road with no sidewalk.

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).