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There is a grey area between the letter and intent of the law but it takes a special sort of wilful misinterpretation to end up with "driving onto a little cart
by egypturnash 5y ago
There is a grey area between the letter and intent of the law but it takes a special sort of wilful misinterpretation to end up with "driving onto a little cart that goes about two hundred feet along a rail, then comes back" as "travelling by rail". Especially when there is apparently a whole pile of paperwork that had to be done to officially register this little cart as A Canadian Rail Line. These people know damn well what the spirit of the law is and put a lot of time and effort into coming up with a way to violate the spirit but not the letter of it.
The only way you can get to that point via a slippery slope is to bring your own barrels of lubricant and spend a while clearing rocks and trees and other obstacles off of your slope. You might even have to put some effort into increasing the grade of that slope.
- FpUser 5y agoThis case is obvious. So fix the law, it is / should be easy to close the loophole and move along.
- egypturnash 5y agoHopefully the courts will decide that while this may not violate the precise letter of the law, it's incredibly obvious that it violates the spirit of it, and judge them guilty. But if they do, this company will probably try to push it back to a higher court, given that the initial fines are 90% of their revenue from a few years ago. I wonder how much they saved by doing this stupid game instead of using actual rail shipping for about thirty miles, and how much of it ended up in the pockets of their top-level staff and investors vs. the pockets of their employees?