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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.politics
Subject: Re: those funny white lines
Message-ID: <3096@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 17:10:57 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 17:10:57 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 05:12:23 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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It has been mentioned that the solid white line down the
middle of a highway is useful in the event of certain accidents:
it provides something with which to charge a driver who has
not done anything else obviously wrong but gotten into
an accident anyway.

This is an example of something that many lawmakers seem to
do: pass laws that people cannot possibly obey so that when
someone does something the police don't like, they can be
arrested on "legitimat" charges.  This is the motivation,
for instance, behind many "loitering" laws.

I consider this practice reprehensible.  If certain behavior
should be illegal, MAKE IT ILLEGAL.  Don't make everything illegal
and then leave the decision up to the police.

Further discussion in net.politics, please.