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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A healthy reminder that laws and especially their application are completely arbitrary and often follow the whims of people with money and power.

It is a choice to apply law to every day life. When we start applying the law to wage theft, skirting income taxes, lobbying for sales taxes which most affect poor people, and the systematic divestment of minorities and the indigent, then I'll be ever so slighty little less ACAB.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who is the victim in this "crime"?

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There doesn’t need to be a victim but it’s actually fairly dangerous. Crosswalks typically, and maybe by law/code, have signage ahead of the crosswalk to warn drivers.

This could make things more dangerous for pedestrians by giving them false trust that this crosswalk is signed and known to drivers that frequent the route.

I generally approve of this kind of vigilante civil engineering. But, safety should be taken into account so I’m a bit torn.

Either way, it’s civil disobedience which comes with a potential cost. It has worked by drawing more attention to the issue and nobody got hurt. Hopefully, they get off with a slap on the wrist.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cadekat@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago

Life was simpler before 9/11.

Uh, I'm pretty sure you can still buy reflective vests at Home Depot.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

~~It was already a crosswalk, just unmarked. Adding road markings cannot make it less safe.~~

Ugh, I misread the article and thought he marked an unmarked crosswalk because of the article image and the comment I was responding to calling it "this crosswalk".

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago

Wait, is it the empty two-line path on the south side of the intersection? If so, that needs better marking anyways.

Just give the guy a list of materials, tools, and relevant safety and installation codes, and let him cook. He's already willing to do the job for you, help him do it right, and also save some taxpayer dollars in the process.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There’s no such thing as an “unmarked crosswalk” in Virginia. Pedestrians can legally cross at “marked crosswalks” and intersections if there are no marked crosswalks.

The difference is that drivers are legally required to stop at marked crosswalks. This is not an “unmarked crosswalk. It’s just an intersection.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It’s just an intersection.

I get that you are referring to legal definitions here, but that’s exactly what an unmarked crosswalk is: an intersection without crosswalk markings. Same thing, different name.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

And are drivers not required to yield to pedestrians at intersections? With or without crosswalks...

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The real climate terrorists are oil, shipping, and car companies.

If this is the punishment for doing nothing then might as well delete some CEOS.

[–] ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"A police report that Cox shared with the news station alleged that officers were unable to determine whether his improvised crosswalk had been created with permanent paint. Officials determined the crosswalk could not be removed, so city workers covered it with black paint." So...some stupid MFs who don't know how to use water or a pressure washer FFS

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

For once, we shouldn't assume stupidity when malice is a perfectly valid explanation.

Can't harass activists with the threat of jail time for some chalk drawings, better claim it might not have been chalk.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

The drawing in question

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She SHOULD have just Killed millions of Poor People! THEN she would become a Millionaire CEO or even PRESIDENT!

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

On Reddit you'd be banned for that statement. Good that this is not Reddit.

Someone should redo it.

[–] Typewar@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm new to this community, but don't feel like this post resonates with my views.

Do we hate cars because they are spewing out CO2 and are more risky to drive than most other alternatives, or because driving a car is isolating, toxic and boring?

I believe infrastructure made for cars makes for a super ugly and detaching area. I hate cars because they make places less cozy

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 19 points 1 month ago

Why not all of those

Cars are a pollutant that is accelerating climate change.

Cars are a danger to everyone involved.

Driving is isolating as compared to walking or biking or commuting.

Car-first infrastructure makes cities uglier and uglier.

These are all true.

[–] C45513@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago
[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Multiple reasons can be true at once.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Personally I hate cars for all the reasons you mentioned and more.

The article certainly speaks more to the “dangerous” part as well as to general car-focused and also fascist state tendencies, but it’s at minimum adjacent to c/fuckcars matters.