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Many drivers have "followed the advice of some" already.Originally Posted by Irving
Can you provide a link to any of them "rotting in prison?"
I am unable to find any so far.
If I'm on the jury, the defendant is safe.
Stopping and surrounding a vehicle with significant numbers, banging on a vehicle, breaking glass (to gain access to occupants) all demonstrate intent (imminent danger). That's not a protest but a violent mob that our ever-incompetent/evil (you pick) government should have broken up before it got to that point. Nor is it an escalation the driver caused merely by driving on a public road.
There are a number of people who believe in the space to destroy. Debatable, but if humans are the car, totally different.
That said, I personally would avoid such a scenario at nearly all costs less than the safety of my loved ones/self.
I can provide a link, later, of the person driving through the protest line to which I was specifically referring. In that situation, the protesters had successfully brought all traffic to a stop, but when the one vehicle decided to move forward, the protesters had to leave other parts of the line just to try to get in front of the vehicle. When the line of people blocking traffic is less than one person deep, good luck defending your decision to smash the gas and plow through the line. The original poster laid out a specific scenario of having your "path of travel" blocked and what your rights might be.
Predictably, many members let their fantasies run wild with a scenario out of walking dead where the road is blocked by bad guys 25 deep, all armed with weapons or something.
What are the chances that you'll be the first responder to a situation like that? What are the protesters yelling? Some people block traffic to draw attention to their cause. So just run over people yelling about more money for schools? A lot of people, including hot Dave, are having a difficult time differentiating between a protest blocking traffic, and a riot blocking traffic.
This.
I used to work at a campus that had a main entrance off of a major street, with its own traffic light. One day the janitors' union or something decided to picket the campus. The ones that entered the campus got rounded up by private security, but most stayed on the public sidewalks and they couldn't be touched. They milled about in the crosswalk blocking traffic. Eventually police showed up and made them clear the crosswalk when the light for the cross street was green, but they still blocked it the rest of the time. If you would have plowed through that crowd of protesters out into the intersection I can't imagine an outcome for you other than jail. The protesters were not violent in any way; it's hard to claim that you were in fear for your life in your car because of people carrying protest signs and chanting pro-labor blatherings.
When person A is blocking you from leaving a restroom in conjunction with person B smashing you in the face with a tire iron where does person A get a pass just because they dont have said tire iron? Or because there werent 4 people blocking the door. Or 25?
Are we reading the same OP? situation starts to escalate w/ threats = if you cannot back out, freaking floor it! As I said before, quantity has a quality all its own. Mob mentality can quickly, very quickly, devolve into one nasty situation. The entire OP was an exercise in the abstract, i.e., a theoretical situation. Of course we have to fantasize (imagine) ourselves in the situation to even answer. But you mean to tell me that if you are surrounded by a bunch of folks yelling and threatening you that you're just gonna sit there while they whip themselves into a murderous frenzy? eek.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. - The Cleveland Press, March 1, 1921, GK Chesterton
I don't care if they're holding hands on the freeway and singing about orphan paraplegic kittens.
Without a permit, they have no legal right or justification for blocking a public roadway.
They made the choice to break the law and place themselves in danger of being run down.
I guarantee the number of SJWs entertaining the idea would instantly decline after a few of them are flattened.
Instead, we roll up our windows and lock our doors and patiently wait until the snowflakes are asked to please move by the cops who are forced to waste their time coddling their precious little feelz.
Every state has provisions in place for legal protesting.
Blocking a public roadway without a permit is not among them.
Wish they'd start blocking train tracks.
Just because someone is illegally blocking the road doesn't mean you have free license to run them over. See Asmo's post. If they're trying to breach your vehicle? Sure, game on.
There were three separate, escalating hypotheticals posed in the OP.
Opps, didn't see you standing there - IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREEWAY
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