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“It’s not safe or legal for people to fill potholes on streets that are maintained by the city,” says Rivera. “They run the risk of being injured in a traffic c
by thelastidiot 9y ago
“It’s not safe or legal for people to fill potholes on streets that are maintained by the city,” says Rivera. “They run the risk of being injured in a traffic crash.... They also run the risk of being held personally liable if someone were to be injured by the pothole they attempted to fix.”
Not legal? Everything starts being illegal when it's an embarrassment for the governement. As in capitalism's paralyzie? Let these guys decide if they want to run the risk to be injured.
- pitaj 9y agoI don't know what you mean by "capitalism's paralyzie" but yeah, it seems like things similar to this should be covered by Good Samaritan laws.
- greggeter 9y agoImagine if we started allowing "competent, trained software developers" to make patches in Unix without QC. I guess that would be ok -- as long as the good Samaritan developers decided they wanted to take on the risk themselves...