Roving gang of anarchists captured without incident

[steveh_131]

They aren't too much different when not following those regulations leads to vehicular manslaughter.

Fortunately for us, vehicular manslaughter is already a crime.

 

[Benny]

Fortunately for us, vehicular manslaughter is already a crime.

Like murdering your wife or daughter, but carries a lesser sentence.

 

[sbcman]

The real crime is the girly hair. Such epic wins on the beards, such epic failure on the girly hair.

 

[steveh_131]

Like murdering your wife or daughter, but carries a lesser sentence.

My instinct tells me to disagree with you, but I find nothing here to disagree with.

Hate when that happens!

 

[GPD177]

Murder and traffic regulations are only different in degree, they are both behavior codes that are limited/defined by law, by the elected reps of we the people as a whole.

 

[steveh_131]

Murder and traffic regulations are only different in degree, they are both behavior codes that are limited/defined by law, by the elected reps of we the people as a whole.

I think they are fundamentally quite different.

 

[Benny]

My instinct tells me to disagree with you, but I find nothing here to disagree with.

Hate when that happens!

Damn, that's unfortunate.

Murder and traffic regulations are only different in degree, they are both behavior codes that are limited/defined by law, by the elected reps of we the people as a whole.

I think they are fundamentally quite different.

While they are quite different on the surface, disobeying certain traffic regulations can lead to similar results.

I couldn't care less if they have reflective triangles on their buggies during the day, but once darkness hits, they need to have them or be off of the roads. I don't even want to imagine how bad I would feel if I killed a family, regardless if it was their fault. I also wouldn't feel too great if I swerved off of the road and wrapped my vehicle around a tree because I didn't see them until the last moment.

 

[strahd71]

why dont we deal with the truth! it's not about the reflectors or their beliefs!

its about the open milk container they found in the buggy!

jake

 

[melensdad]

They reject our society, don't pay our taxes, and break our laws. They ride around in gangs, dressed alike, in their 2-horsepower anarchy wagons. Finally they will get the chance to learn about American values from their experience being arrested and thrown in cages with other criminals.

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OK let me see if I understand this.

They use public roads at night, without lights or reflective tape. Carriages have been involved in several fairly high profile disasters where whole families have died because they've been hit by cars/trucks on the roadway.

We are supposed to feel sorry for them because they are tossed in jail

I have to raise the BS flag on this one. Seriously who is feeling sorry for the poor drivers who run into these careless idiots on our roads? You run over carriage and kill a whole family and I'd bet you are screwed up for the rest of your life but we don't hear about the drivers who have killed fools like these folks.

I'm actually very much in awe of the lifestyles of these folks but if they go out on the public roads they damn well better have reflective tape, SMV signs and at night they need some flashing lights. I get they have a religion that we should show respect for (just like all other religions) but that does not mean we should allow them to endanger us with their actions.​

 

[Garb]

I have to agree with the idea that the Amish should have reflectors on their buggies. It is totally within the realm of the local or state government, both constitutionally, and for the sake of safety, to make them have reflectors on their buggies while on public roads.

 

[NYFelon]

Genuine question. Naturally I have done some travelling, even into PA where the East Coast Amish are known to roam. However, having lived the whole of my life in NY, and having been born into a Catholic family, I have little to no knowledge of such sects. Earlier on, someone mentioned a difference between Mennonites and Amish, I admit I had always thought they were the same. Can someone give me a sort of quick quide as to the differences?

Sorry for the thread jack, and thanks in advance.

 

[nate1865]

The orange triangles are for their safety really, not others'.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Amish=horse and buggy

Mennonite=truck with blacked out bumpers.

 

[CarmelHP]

Amish=horse and buggy

Mennonite=truck with blacked out bumpers.

And all sorts of gradations according to Ordnung and sect.

 

[NYFelon]

Amish=horse and buggy

Mennonite=truck with blacked out bumpers.

is that for real?

 

[EvilBlackGun]

... and Vernor's is medicine.

Amish are REAL; Mennonites just wear clothes that look funny.

Don't confuse Mennonites with Amish.
It's like comparing Baptists to Catholics.

 

[Expat]

is that for real?

Close with exceptions. There are horse & buggy Mennonites in some areas. We have some in Western Elkhart County. Some of the Amish will get exceptions from their Bishop to drive a car due to health or something.

 

[Jerry]

Why does this remind me of central booking at Santa's workshop?

 

[Dead Duck]

Who do you think Busted the perps in the first place.

 

[melensdad]

The orange triangles are for their safety really, not others'.

BULLCRAP

The orange triangle on my tractors is so others don't run into my tractor and kill THEMSELVES (or me).

Those a SMV triangles and they go on all farm vehicles that cannot maintain the speed limits including hay wagons. If a SMV triangle is there to protect the vehicle occupant then who is it protecting when a school bus runs into a hay wagon? It is there to alert drivers for the purpose of protecting the other driver as well as anyone who occupies the SMV placarded vehicle.