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he was told by an MTA property protection agent that he was not permitted to take photos of a bus depot from a public sidewalk. As Dunlap notes, the agent was wrong to tell him he could not take photos from the public sidewalk and wrong to tell him he could not take photos of the MTA property.

There are signs all over the PA bus terminal also telling you that photographs are illegal. They will try, and try, and try until they gain a foothold of “new normal”.

Michelle remembered why she stopped calling. “[Detective Almonte] was like, ‘Listen, you should be lucky you’re alive.’ ” This was the last time she spoke with anyone from the department. “It’s like you can play Grand Theft Auto in the streets and hit real people and ditch your car and that’s allowed,” she said. “Honestly, I feel like the only way that this case would have gotten more attention is if I’d been brain dead or physically dead.”

I want to live somewhere that this doesn’t happen.

The report concluded there was no criminality.

SLAM. That’ll teach ‘em.

Of course it is perfectly legal in this country to drive a truck down the beach and run over someone you failed see, due to speed or inattention. Same as any street.

Accountability-free motoring has been the name of the game here for over half a century. Once the pedestrian “responsibility” to not be killed by autos was injected into our society, people were reduced to obstacles. Or frogs. Occasionally our culture struggles in vain with the edge cases where this artificial “responsibility” is most absurd—Do beach-goers need flag, too? Must sunbathers be hyper-aware of vehicles plying the sands, prepared at any moment to roll sideways like a commando?

Our legal institutions have expelled any principle that would identify a responsible party in such cases, so they can only lamely proclaim in one crash after another that there was no “criminality”—this weird word that you never hear unless a motorist is being absolved of something.

But having an answer for physical violence is the central purpose of government. Does our government in general, like its professionally courteous police, argue here for its own uselessness?