A mere legality

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 19, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> I'm watching, Don't Try This at Home. A guy runs from one platform to
> the opposite one in front of a speeding train. The engineer, unable to
> see, because of the angle, whether he's hit the guy, slams on the
> brakes.
> Turns out that the track-crosser has suffered only a broken ankle.
> Arrested, he's convicted of "causing a train to stop, for no good
> reason." Makes sense. That's what he'd done, even if he'd been killed.

Maybe, but that way he'd have avoided arrest.

LH

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