Yep. There's extremely little chance of any serious damage.
Just your opinion.
At 12:23 in the morning you just happen to be standing in this particular motel parking lot and are so dense and preoccupied that you can't hear the wheels on the pavement nor the huffing and puffing of the pusher of the moment. Right...
You might get a sprain, maybe.
We're not talking slopes here - we're talking Portage, Indiana, not Colorado.
That's true. That's what happened, I think, when the car hit the irregularity in the parking lot and then rolled backwards.
Its not going anywhere in an imperceptible grade. There's a thing called rolling resistance, which is what makes it so hard to keep pushing it even after you have it going.
They weren't on a significant grade. Even drunk they probably wouldn't have tried to push it on a significant grade. Even drunk, they'd be smart enough to just take it out of gear and apply the brake as it coasted - why go to all that work?
But there was no grade...
Yeah, the letter of the law is still WRONG, as in UNJUST! I am not going to support injustice no matter what some politician may have written nor what some cop has warped into his own idea of justice, or worse, is just trying to get another notch in his belt while ignoring the justice. Wrong is wrong, and it's wrong to charge people that were doing the RIGHT THING, which is moving the dead car off the road, thus eliminating a traffic hazard.
The intent of the DWI laws are just, as they are designed to deal with a deadly threat. This was no deadly threat. In fact, it was no sort of threat to anybody. In fact, it was the removal of a threat, that being the dead car, off the road. Punish 'em? For pushing the car off the road? No way.
No, I'm not, and you have no sense of justice.
Dave Head
