Nobody's worked up, and it's a feeble rhetorical technique to say so in the first place. You'd rather intimate that I'm upset than actually defend the thoughtless comment you wrote which began this conversation.

Again I ask, what would you have the local police do? Spank the property manager and put her in the corner? Arrest the property manager for towing the car or documenting violations of the lease agreement?

But that's simply not how our culture and society work. We don't even have pay phones on a large scale anymore. We have adapted to individual communications devices, and the technology exists for those devices to be useful even in times of emergency or diminished resources.

I assume the WiFi Duracell provides is satellite based, and allowing communication over platforms like email, iMessage, Facebook, Twitter, etc. would actually relieve some of the demand for conventional networks.

Yah fuck WiFi, I'll just send smoke signals to my loved ones when a massive disaster hits.

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Interesting. I would think the possibility of a tow truck driver doing it improperly would preclude ever using anything but a flatbed for a municipal vehicle, but I suppose some cities are less risk-averse than others.

It's private property, governed primarily by the lease agreement. In order to park on said private property, one agrees to follow the rules and to ensure that their guests are also following the rules. The rules may be unjust, but that's where hiring a lawyer comes in.

The cops wouldn't do anything, it's a civil matter not a criminal one. She needs to sue to enforce the law in this case, if cajoling and publicly humiliating the apartment complex doesn't work.

ADA and other things aside, tenant law is very clear on who is or isn't a resident (in most places, it's someone with an active lease or rental agreement). She's an adult, so her relation to her mother (the leaseholder) is completely irrelevant.

Anyone who's spotted a cop in their rear view mirror while high could tell you that THC is no match for adrenaline and the other chemicals/hormones that the body produce.

I don't think I'm claiming any causative relationship, but getting high as a professional race car driver is different than getting high in your own living room, so it's disingenuous to say that weed isn't relevant at all—if Ward was high while racing it shows a pattern of reckless behavior (putting spectators, other…

Would it be relevant to the discussion if it were Stewart with THC in his system? Unequivocally, yes, which makes it relevant to Ward's actions as well.

If Stewart was the one found with marijuana in his system, not a single thinking person would be arguing that it is irrelevant.

I couldn't disagree more, THC is known for its relaxing, sedative affects, and is also associated with, for lack of a better word, absentmindedness. If Ward was high (and not simply carrying metabolites in his body) there's a very real possibility that his professional judgment momentarily lapsed and his emotions took…

I know a guy who, when hitching a cargo trailer stoned, connected the safety chains but forgot to close the tongue latch. Weed makes you do stupid things sometimes, even when you know better/have lots of experience doing that same repetitive task.

It's not about "inhibitions" it's about impairment. Weed can make you do stupid shit that you would normally not do, like connecting the safety chains of a cargo trailer but forgetting to close the tongue latch (or so a friend once told me).

I don't see a civil jury doing much different from the DA. Ward and Stewart are both grown adults who chose to participate in a dangerous activity. Ward completely disregarded all safety procedures and protocols and put himself literally in harm's way, and may (may!) have been under the influence at the time of the…

To me, common sense is lacking. That doesn't look like it's practical on anything but the smoothest of tarmacs.

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