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Road Crime

Posted: November 23rd, 2013, 2:53 pm
by seanrichardryan
Please use this thread to post links regarding crimes near or around roadways.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: November 24th, 2013, 7:48 pm
by ECtransplant
I think this should cover most of them

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/police/ ... efor_index

Re: Road Crime

Posted: November 24th, 2013, 9:30 pm
by Nick
Took this a while ago:

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Re: Road Crime

Posted: November 25th, 2013, 7:41 am
by RailBaronYarr

Re: Road Crime

Posted: November 25th, 2013, 10:04 am
by mplsjaromir

Re: Road Crime

Posted: November 25th, 2013, 11:40 am
by MNdible
So, what exactly is the point of this thread? Is it just a snarky reaction to a bad news story about the garage break-ins?

If so, thanks, got it.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: November 25th, 2013, 11:45 am
by mplsjaromir
I am a big supporter of internal combustion lanes. It is frustrating when you see so many users of those lanes break the law.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: November 25th, 2013, 12:05 pm
by ECtransplant
All the road projects the gubmint keeps building has me worried a certain element could use those roads to get from Murderapolis to my nice community.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: January 15th, 2014, 7:10 pm
by Anondson
A driver who is blind in one eye and poor sight in the remaining one, hit two men and dragged one for a mile. Sentenced to 15+ years.

http://www.startribune.com/local/east/240352541.html

I think part of the crime is granting a man who is blind in one eye and poor sight in the remaining one a drivers license.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: January 20th, 2014, 8:13 pm
by Nick

Re: Road Crime

Posted: January 20th, 2014, 9:13 pm
by MNdible
So, by that logic, if I blow a red light in my car and get T-boned in the intersection and I die as a result of the accident I cause, the other guy gets charged with vehicular homocide?

I'm all for jaywalking, if the pedestrian looks first and knows they can safely get to the other side of the street. The BS that always happens on Franklin Avenue, where people saunter in front of moving traffic, is a fish of an entirely different color. Obviously, they don't deserve to be hit, but it wouldn't bust me up too much if they got a ticket.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: January 20th, 2014, 11:39 pm
by Nick
Wasn't endorsing it, I just <3 Hamilton Nolan.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: January 21st, 2014, 9:39 am
by Cyclotron
I did not know that Lonnie from Deliverance wrote for Gawker.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: January 21st, 2014, 2:29 pm
by seanrichardryan
In Wisconsin road crime news...

He must have been pretty wasted-

http://www.startribune.com/local/241290261.html

Re: Road Crime

Posted: February 5th, 2014, 8:19 am
by mulad
Approximately one in eight Minnesota drivers are on the road illegally and do not have driving privileges.

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/02/04/illegal-drivers

Re: Road Crime

Posted: February 6th, 2014, 7:45 am
by RailBaronYarr
Wth?: http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/B ... 208612.php

This cannot possibly be the best long-term strategy for reducing area-wide crime..

Re: Road Crime

Posted: February 11th, 2014, 9:11 pm
by talindsay
From the BBC: how the auto industry turned crossing the road into an offense:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26073797

Re: Road Crime

Posted: June 2nd, 2014, 7:07 pm
by Anondson
Drivers don't like it when you touch their paint jobs when the nearly drive over you.

http://www.startribune.com/local/261497161.html

Pedestrian beaten bloody, but driver and passengers arrested and charged. Bad choices all around.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: June 2nd, 2014, 8:56 pm
by mattaudio
Meh, it's the equivalent of a horn for a pedestrian. Except people who have real horns have the luxury of being inside a steel cage that will protect them much more from the stupidity of others.

Re: Road Crime

Posted: June 2nd, 2014, 9:49 pm
by Anondson
I agree, I've slapped my fair share of cars that I dodged. But mostly in a way that makes it indistinguishable from them having ran into me. ;)