That video is insane. Is the guy so arrogant that he couldn't conceive of being wrong? How could he possibly continue to write a ticket after this interaction?
alexjplant 14 minutes ago [-]
> Is the guy so arrogant that he couldn't conceive of being wrong?
I think deep down most people know when they make mistakes but [US] society at large punishes admission of fault so harshly that many people refuse to do it. They can't bring themselves to say the words because they're fearful of retribution. All of our institutions and power structures - the justice system, the workplace, schools, public roads, social media - treat acknowledgment of mistake as a character fault and take license to demean people who dare to do so.
At the risk of sounding like a hippie: the world would be a better place if people weren't penalized for saying "my bad." My observation doesn't let anybody involved with this debacle off the hook but I think it explains it.
quantified 56 minutes ago [-]
Remember the cop who shot, in the leg, a person who was just lying in a crosswalk: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey]. Why? "¯\_(ツ)_/¯". Cop was convicted of essentially dipshttery but had that overturned.
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hn_acker 3 hours ago [-]
The original title is:
> Charges dismissed for woman without right hand cited for holding phone while driving
Although the traffic citation was dismissed, the remarkable event was the fact that the police issued the driver such a citation in the first place.
‘I’m writing you a ticket for holding a phone in your right hand while driving.’
‘I don’t have a right hand.’
Proceeds to show cop the lack of a right hand.
Gets a ticket anyway.
https://old.reddit.com/r/whoathatsinteresting/comments/1tp3u...
I think deep down most people know when they make mistakes but [US] society at large punishes admission of fault so harshly that many people refuse to do it. They can't bring themselves to say the words because they're fearful of retribution. All of our institutions and power structures - the justice system, the workplace, schools, public roads, social media - treat acknowledgment of mistake as a character fault and take license to demean people who dare to do so.
At the risk of sounding like a hippie: the world would be a better place if people weren't penalized for saying "my bad." My observation doesn't let anybody involved with this debacle off the hook but I think it explains it.
> Charges dismissed for woman without right hand cited for holding phone while driving
Although the traffic citation was dismissed, the remarkable event was the fact that the police issued the driver such a citation in the first place.