If you’re sitting at a light and a cop is behind you and you burn rubber when you take off, but you don’t break any other laws is that breaking a law?

@Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 1M

If you’re sitting at a light and a cop is behind you and you burn rubber when you take off, but you don’t break any other laws is that breaking a law?

@thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 1M

Yes.

Source: a cop who used this exact scenario as an example of “letter/spirit” of the law, saying if it was raining and the tires chirped on the crosswalk surface, that wasn’t the same as laying it down on dry pavement.