Tom_in_CA
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This wasn't md'ing, but it can be analagous to md'ing. It involves something that is:
a) a grey area of the law. Ie.: a law that can be interpretted a few different ways.
b) an area where it could be argued that the person *could* have asked first, to have avoided any confrontations , tickets, embarassment, etc...
So in that sense, there can be similarities drawn between this, and the debate on grey zones of rules/laws in md'ing. Eg.: the dreaded "alterations", "defacement" and "cultural heritage" verbage.
There was a fellow driving a hearse for a mortuary. The highway patrol stopped him in a carpool lane, for violating the car-pool lane rules (must have 2 or more persons in the vehicle, to use the carpool lane). When the officer explained to the fellow that he had stopped him for only having a single person, the hearse driver explained to the officer that .... in fact ... there WAS another person in the vehicle. Whereupon he pointed to the back (where there was a coffin in transit). The officer said that that didn't qualify as a 2nd person, since .... of course.... that person was dead. Thus the driver's objections fell on deaf ears, and he was given a ticket.
He chose to fight the ticket, and signed up for his day in traffic court. When his turn came to state his case, the judge dismissed the ticket, by observing that the signs on the road there simply state "2 or more persons", and didn't say whether or not the person had to be alive or not. Therefore, the fellow's ticket was dismissed.
true story!
As you can see, this fellow did not have to go ask first "can i?". Instead, the system works. And yes, it's never "fun" to get a ticket (and I'm not advocating that we all invite that with open arms), but just saying: don't assume that if .... in the remote chance you did (and HIGHLY UNLIKELY as you'd most likely ever get a "scram" first), that the system CAN work.
a) a grey area of the law. Ie.: a law that can be interpretted a few different ways.
b) an area where it could be argued that the person *could* have asked first, to have avoided any confrontations , tickets, embarassment, etc...
So in that sense, there can be similarities drawn between this, and the debate on grey zones of rules/laws in md'ing. Eg.: the dreaded "alterations", "defacement" and "cultural heritage" verbage.
There was a fellow driving a hearse for a mortuary. The highway patrol stopped him in a carpool lane, for violating the car-pool lane rules (must have 2 or more persons in the vehicle, to use the carpool lane). When the officer explained to the fellow that he had stopped him for only having a single person, the hearse driver explained to the officer that .... in fact ... there WAS another person in the vehicle. Whereupon he pointed to the back (where there was a coffin in transit). The officer said that that didn't qualify as a 2nd person, since .... of course.... that person was dead. Thus the driver's objections fell on deaf ears, and he was given a ticket.
He chose to fight the ticket, and signed up for his day in traffic court. When his turn came to state his case, the judge dismissed the ticket, by observing that the signs on the road there simply state "2 or more persons", and didn't say whether or not the person had to be alive or not. Therefore, the fellow's ticket was dismissed.
true story!
As you can see, this fellow did not have to go ask first "can i?". Instead, the system works. And yes, it's never "fun" to get a ticket (and I'm not advocating that we all invite that with open arms), but just saying: don't assume that if .... in the remote chance you did (and HIGHLY UNLIKELY as you'd most likely ever get a "scram" first), that the system CAN work.