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The situation you sketch is not comparable to the school bus case. Most traffic laws have exemptions for dealing with a force majeure; either explicit or implic
by Freak_NL 7y ago
The situation you sketch is not comparable to the school bus case. Most traffic laws have exemptions for dealing with a force majeure; either explicit or implicit by condoning any reasonable behaviour necessary to mitigate the problem.
You're not stuck in the school bus scenario unless the cops who put it there maliciously keep its blinkers on for an unreasonable amount of time until you do pull up again after stopping (which then might be classified as entrapment). rhacker's wife didn't stop.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> The situation you sketch is not comparable to the school bus case. So what? The argument I responded to didn't use any aspect of the school bus case. It was "You don't get to make the call. A stop sign means stop, so you have to stop." And that argument is obviously bunk. A red traffic light also means stop; it is perfectly comparable to a stop sign.