Posted on 01/16/2017 2:02:58 PM PST by Drango
Protesters may want to think twice about blocking roads in North Dakota.
Republican lawmakers in the state introduced a bill last week in the legislature that would not hold motorists liable for negligently running over someone obstructing a roadway. The bill was introduced in response to a year of protests over a proposed pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
"A driver of a motor vehicle who negligently causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway may not be held liable for any damages," the bill reads. "A driver of a motor vehicle who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway is not guilty of an offense."
Lawmakers told the Bismarck Tribune that the bill is needed after protesters blocked traffic during oil pipeline protests.
"It’s shifting the burden of proof from the motor vehicle driver to the pedestrian,” Rep. Keith Kempenich told the paper. (Roads) are not there for the protesters. They’re intentionally putting themselves in danger."
The bill will be heard by the North Dakota's House Transportation Committee on Friday.
I will have to do some research about which vehicles do this. Never like the idea about being afoot if I don’t need or want to.
There you go.
And perhaps a bug shield.
You don’t want nasty stuff in your radiator grill work.
It could slow you down later. No need for that.
I’m not against the bill, but I am against the authorities for not spraying these scumbags with icewater.
High-pressure icewater.
that gives license to the mooselimbs driving when it’s crowded.....
Good question.
Yeah, I don't see this working very well. It'll be, "Yee haw, how many points do I get for that guy?"
Reginald Denny shoulda ran over his tormentors.
Not so fast. I think you didn't notice that word "unintentionally" in the description.
driver of a motor vehicle who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic
I'd be more for targeting the BLM types that encased their limbs in barrels filled with concrete, and got dropped off in, um, on interstates in Boston, and I think Minneapolis.
That is something that needs to go national.
https://onscenevideo.tv/ucsd-student-trump-protester-hit-by-car-on-i-5-caught-on-camera/
It's easy to tell.
Protesters should learn to look both ways before they obstruct cars going 70 mph.
Stupid should hurt
Morally wrong to unintentionally run over someone? What the hell are you talking about?!
“How is this bill going to distinguish between “protestors” and people merely walking along the side of the road?”
The person merely walking along the side of the road is NOT ‘obstructing’.
Definition: Obstruct
verb
Law
commit the offense of intentionally hindering (a legal process).
an individual obstructing vehicular traffic...
That’s a semantics question. This is a serious board.
I’d sleep just fine.
ROFL!!
I dont they should be blocking the road either.
When have they done this?
Why all the semantic questions on here.
Go to a metaphysical website for those answers.
I agree that it is morally wrong for them to try to block my way because they are upset by someone else.
I am hitting the horn and driving through.
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