And lo on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:43:10 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

> Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> So presumably you'd want to widen this to including firefighters,
>> ambulance drivers, doctors, nurses etc.
>
>   No, because they don't patrol the streets while on duty.
>
>   You are still slipperysloping.

Um yes you keep trying to suggest that this train of argument is  
universally flawed without providing any evidence. Slipperysloping is a  
reality - "Hey you're permitting X why aren't you permitting Y which is  
just like X sort of"

>> An ambulance driver is on their
>> way back from a call stops off in a no-parking zone to grab a meal  
>> because
>> a) he needs to keep an eye on the vehicle and b) needs to be able to
>> respond to an emergency.
>
>   Ambulance drivers eat at the hospital (or whichever place they are when
> not on a call). They are not even supposed to eat while on a call.

So why don't the police do the same thing?

>> >   Basically you are saying that in a situation where doing both things
>> > at the same time is not possible by the strict letter of the law, for
>> > example because there are no available parking slots nearby, the  
>> police
>> > officer must sacrifice one duty for the other.
>
>> Or to put it another way he has to do what everyone else has to do.
>
>   Everyone else don't have the same duties as police officers. A police
> officer has more responsibility, thus it's only logical to make him
> fulfilling this responsibility as easy as possible.

Nope it's the Spiderman quote - a police officer is given more powers and  
thus has a greater responsibilty not to abuse them. IOW the rules should  
be stricter when they are not directly in pursuit of those duties.

Mueen's got the right idea let a judge determine whether any such illegal  
acts have been commited in the pursuit of a police officer's duty... oh  
wait they did in this case and fined him.

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Phil Cook

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