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   From: me4guns@centurylink.removeme.this2.net   
      
   "nospam"  wrote in message   
   news:180520170137311372%nospam@nospam.invalid...   
   > In article   
   > , Siri   
   > Cruise  wrote:   
   >   
   >> > > In California vehicles yield the right of way to pedestrians   
   >> > > regardless   
   >> > > of   
   >> > > whether the pedestrians are making a legal crossing.   
   >> >   
   >> > that might be what the law says, but anyone who steps in front of a   
   >> > moving vehicle which shows no signs of slowing down is not going to   
   >> > enjoy the outcome.   
   >>   
   >> Actual protesters obstruct traffic in a way that the cars have enough   
   >> time to   
   >> see them and stop.   
   >   
   > you were talking about jaywalking.   
   >   
   > the entire goal of protesters is to shut down roads and inconvenience   
   > innocent drivers who just want to go to work or home or wherever it is   
   > they're going. some of them attack the drivers who insist on getting   
   > past their crap.   
      
   Further, it should be noted that obstructing traffic to the point of   
   shutting down a road can readily be foreseen to result in traffic accidents,   
   and thus damage, injury and possibly death.   
      
   As such, the protestors could be held legally liable for ALL of   
   that....including any injury, or death that resulted from their attempt to   
   obstruct traffic.   
      
   Being a pedestrian does NOT mean you can obstruct traffic. Nor does it   
   absolve you of your responsibilities to prevent dangerous situations and not   
   to knowingly place yourself into danger.   
      
   As such a defense of your acting in willful criminal negligence is certainly   
   a reasonable defense for anyone having struck you.   
      
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