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PaperclipPerfector  11d ago (text post)   2309 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 19, 2025

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Court opinion:

  • Around 2 AM in Philadelphia, a 12-passenger van rear-ends a car at low speed, causing the car to spin out and the car's driver to receive a minor injury. The van flees the scene, but the car follows. After a 12-block chase at 50 miles per hour through several stop signs and red lights, the van turns into a parking lot from which it is unable to exit. The responding police officer observes that the van driver appears drunk. The municipal judge acquits the van driver of drunk driving, but convicts him of reckless endangerment, and imposes a sentence of 18 months of probation.

  • The appeals panel reverses. There is no evidence that the rear-end crash with the car was the result of recklessness rather than of negligence. (Drunk driving is not inherently reckless, especially when it was not even proved that the van driver was intoxicated beyond the legal limit.) And there is no evidence that, during this early-morning chase, any other vehicles or pedestrians were on the street in front of the van to be endangered in the first place.

Fun fact: It may be legal for you to design a house even if you are not a licensed architect.

NJ Statutes tit. 45 ch. 3 § 10:

No person except an architect licensed in the State of New Jersey shall engage in the practice of architecture in this State.

Nothing herein contained shall prohibit any person in this State from acting as designer of a dwelling and all appurtenances thereto that are to be constructed by himself solely as a residence for himself or for a member or members of his immediate family.

PA Architects Licensure Law ch. 5 §§ 8 and 11:

No individual shall engage in the practice of architecture in this State unless such individual holds a currently valid license issued pursuant to this act.

Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to prohibit the preparation of any drawings or other design documents for detached one-family or two-family dwellings not more than three stories in height and their accessory structures.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/twynu9/ops_driveway_connects_two_public_roads_using_it/

Purchased 30 acres of land and built a house several years back in central Florida, had a driveway installed that cuts across the center of my property allowing me to exit on either of two main roads.

I now have traffic using my driveway as a shortcut between the two roads up to and including 18 wheelers and other large vehicles since using my driveway cuts off nearly half an hour of travel time between two cities.

He should have added a toll gate.

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