N Y new hitch law?
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First, let me say that I would be very opposed to a law about it and I hope you're wrong about NY. But, it's like this, it's evening and the light is about gone, you walk along and there is traffic going both directions between the rows of cars and you're carrying some packages and walking with the wife. You move over for traffic and walk behind this truck parked nose in. The next thing you know you're shin is on fire and you are jumping in pain between the passing cars and it hurts like hell. Now, in hind sight you know ya should have looked, but that doesn't make it hurt any less. right after it happened I contemplated the penalty for murder and weighed the difference between 1st and second degree, and could I get it reduced to man slaughter. I can't count the number of times since I've seen trucks parked the same way with the hitch in. I'm always tempted to steal the hitch but I doubt the owner would get why it was gone. I've driven a truck for much of my adult life and used receiver hitches just as long. When I'm not using it I take the hitch out. It's just one of those things I do for society, like not disabling my muffler or farting in the elevator. Some things I don't need a law to tell me to do.
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.....I can't count the number of times since I've seen trucks parked the same way with the hitch in. I'm always tempted to steal the hitch but I doubt the owner would get why it was gone. I've driven a truck for much of my adult life and used receiver hitches just as long. When I'm not using it I take the hitch out. It's just one of those things I do for society, like not disabling my muffler or farting in the elevator. Some things I don't need a law to tell me to do.
One of the main problems that I see in our seemingly degenerative society is
way to much emphasis on "Don't tell ME!"
and not nearly enough on "What's best for US?"
#50
Once you realize that, two things become clear:
1) The law does make good sense
2) The only cops who enforce it for a normal receiver hitch are ones who have banged their shin on some a-hole's hitch in the past.
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I guess I don't understand how you hit your shin on a vehicle you are not getting into the back of. That is what my reference to you shouldn't be that close to my vehicle.
If you are walking between vehicles in a parking lot there are a lot of things that can catch you shins. You have to be careful and watch where you are walking.
If you are walking between vehicles in a parking lot there are a lot of things that can catch you shins. You have to be careful and watch where you are walking.
#59
Some more Einstein-level logic here:
"If you are walking between vehicles in a parking lot there are a lot of things that can catch your shins."
Oh yeah? Like what? By that logic, because hazards exist we should do nothing to eliminate or alleviate ones we have control over?
"You have to be careful and watch where you are walking."
Like another poster mentioned, people out and about very, very often have other things on their minds, in their hands/arms, in their eyes (watching for traffic), and any number of other distractions. But that's their problem, I know. Nothing in it for you, so why should you care?
You really ought to think before you post. You are not portraying yourself in a favorable manner.
"It is far better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
"If you are walking between vehicles in a parking lot there are a lot of things that can catch your shins."
Oh yeah? Like what? By that logic, because hazards exist we should do nothing to eliminate or alleviate ones we have control over?
"You have to be careful and watch where you are walking."
Like another poster mentioned, people out and about very, very often have other things on their minds, in their hands/arms, in their eyes (watching for traffic), and any number of other distractions. But that's their problem, I know. Nothing in it for you, so why should you care?
You really ought to think before you post. You are not portraying yourself in a favorable manner.
"It is far better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
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If you are walking between vehicles in a parking lot there are a lot of things that can catch you shins. You have to be careful and watch where you are walking.[/QUOTE]
OK, I couldn't pass this up. Other than a hitch sticking out a foot or more at almost exactly shin level, name one. Cause I can't think of anything else that sticks out like that. I mean curb feelers went out in the 50s and they would only tickle your ankles. Mirrors have some give and don't hurt. If you happen to run up on a 59 caddy I guess those big **** that stick out on the front might get ya, but I think they were more like thigh high. So, I await some examples.
As for how it can happen see my post above. In the end it comes down to this for me, I can think of at least two good reason to take mine out, safety and theft prevention. I can't think of any good reasons for leaving it in. Well, maybe laziness.
OK, I couldn't pass this up. Other than a hitch sticking out a foot or more at almost exactly shin level, name one. Cause I can't think of anything else that sticks out like that. I mean curb feelers went out in the 50s and they would only tickle your ankles. Mirrors have some give and don't hurt. If you happen to run up on a 59 caddy I guess those big **** that stick out on the front might get ya, but I think they were more like thigh high. So, I await some examples.
As for how it can happen see my post above. In the end it comes down to this for me, I can think of at least two good reason to take mine out, safety and theft prevention. I can't think of any good reasons for leaving it in. Well, maybe laziness.