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Old 06-04-2009, 02:15 PM
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Not taking anyone's side here but I've always hated this... you be the judge and tell me if I would have been to blame.

So I'm driving down Main St. one day and happen to have an expired vehicle inspection sticker. I had stopped for donuts (yes, donuts), on my way to get my inspection taken care of and pull up to a stop light, at which a motocop is sitting across the intersection, on a curb, kickstand down. As I pull through the intersection, I can tell he sees my expired tag and he begins to roll his motorcycle off its stand. In so doing his front tire drops off the curb, he loses his balance and his motorcycle topples over on to him.

I kept driving, but what if he had broken his ankle? Would I, who was technically breaking the law, have assaulted the officer and been responsible? By all the logic in here- I would have. Scary that because he couldn't have chosen a better spot to park his bike and lost his balance, I could have gone to jail for assaulting an LEO.
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