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In reply to the discussion: Parents stuck on I-40 during protest call paramedics to help young son [View all]christx30
(6,241 posts)the police, the government, and the courts. You know, the people that can actually do something about it. Not everyday people like dental hygienists or architects or people trying to get their kids to the hospital.
If I'm sitting in traffic because of this dangerous form of protest, I'm not going to blame the cops or politics. I'm going to blame the idiots that walked out in front of cars going 60 on the highway.
Who's to blame when someone happens to glance down at their speedometer at the wrong moment and hits someone, because he doesn't see the idiot standing there waving his arms? Pedestrians have the right of way in most cases, true, but the laws of physics don't care. A 2500 lb vehicle going 65 miles per hour doesn't give a rip who has the right of way.