UConn James Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Injured good Samaritan ticketed for jaywalking : Man helped push 3 people out of path of pickup truck before being struck Wow this cop is a prick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Injured good Samaritan ticketed for jaywalking : Man helped push 3 people out of path of pickup truck before being struck Wow this cop is a prick. At least he did not ticket the old broads ... what an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUFootball29 Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 perhaps if they weren't jaywalking in the first place they wouldn't have needed to be saved from the truck. Its not hard to wait for the light to change and use a crosswalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 perhaps if they weren't jaywalking in the first place they wouldn't have needed to be saved from the truck. Its not hard to wait for the light to change and use a crosswalk. Yeah, people don't think about that. It was his actions that caused the incident in the first place. Cops=bad. I just moved into the city of San Francisco and people jay walk all over the place. Some day I'm going to have one as a hood ornament...idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UConn James Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 Yeah, people don't think about that. It was his actions that caused the incident in the first place. Cops=bad. I just moved into the city of San Francisco and people jay walk all over the place. Some day I'm going to have one as a hood ornament...idiots. I'm considering the context, here. In the middle of a snowstorm, how many people can even see a crosswalk? And then, it was not he who jaywalked in the first place --- he was helping some elderly women who first jaywalked to get across the street b/c they were having trouble. Was he supposed to stay completely out of the road and only use the crosswalk and just let people get hit and say "But I couldn't jaywalk to save them! I just couldn't!"? This is along the lines of charging someone with indecent exposure if they have to use their swimming trunks as an emergency tourniquet. There are times when fast action to help those in need necessarily flouts a legal technicality, but for the much greater good. In such a time, also, it's on drivers to use common sense (which, isn't a common thing these days...) do everything they can to avoid an accident. Here, the guy saved people's lives and is getting ticketed (an update says the PD is now reconsidering the ticket). That the cop refused to grant any lenience given the real-life circumstances, is pretty stevestojanny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUFootball29 Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 From what I'm reading here Moffett was the bus driver and stopped to let the ladies off the bus and decides to help them cross the street. Helping them across the street is what initiated the jaywalking and in turn the car accident. Snowstorm or not is not a reason to just walk people out in the road without looking. Want to help someone across the street...make sure there is no traffic coming, usually sound advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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