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I agree with that point but I never said or tried to say it was legal for the biker or bikers to just stop in the middle of traffic.I'm not really talking about hypotheticals either champ. The biker who parked his bike in front of the Range is no different from when there is a two car accident/or bumper tap and two cars line up in front of each other either in the middle of the road or on the side of the road. If the biker who is in the hospital decides to say he was going up to the Range to get his insurance information (yes that is an excuse the biker can use, be it the truth or not) then he can use that in his civil case for his injuries. That why I said if the others bikers decided to bash Lien's back window UNBEKNOWN to the biker who got ran over than his case against Lien would be even stronger. We'll just have to see how this plays out.Again, this goes back to my example from earlier, if me, you and ksteezy are out riding our bikes, you DoubleJs07 brake check a vehicle, that vehicle taps/hits you........all 3 of us stop because of the hit to you, if you walk up towards the front of the vehicle, but me and ksteezy for whatever reason decide to go to the rear of the vehicle and bash in the window with our actions unbeknown to you DoubleJs07, that wouldn't necessarily give the driver the right to run over you causing you injuries and sending you to the hospital. In which case you could sue the driver in a civil suit.
I'm not taking about a hypothetical, Deuce. I'm going off of what I saw in the video. By all accounts, the dude who is in the hospital was one of the guys who was blocking the range. If you notice, there are a bunch other riders hanging off on the side of the road. I'm pretty sure he wasn't in that group, and he made an awful decision that may ultimately cost him the ability to walk.
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The only appropriate and legal place to stop a motor vehicle on a roadway is the righthand shoulder with your hazards illuminated.
Anything that happens to someone while stopped blocking the middle of the freeway is their own damn fault and any court of law will agree.
These bikers may have had a case if they were lines up in an orderly fashion on the shoulder of the road but at the video shows they have absolutely no claim.
True the actions of the some of the bikers might screw him over. I just wanted to get folks to understand or see the difference between criminal and civil charges.Like I said before, he COULD have had good intentions...but the actions of his club screwed him. I'm sure there are guys who weren't acting stupid on this day, but he was one of the guys who put themselves in harms way, and thus, I believe he was trying to block the SUV.
Now we're talking hypotheticals.....Aight, swap out KKK with unruly mob, champ.
Come champ be for real. I recognize and realize that a large portion of the group was acting and driving recklessly but to say they can be seen or equated as a "hate group" which would include groups such as the KKK is a bit extreme wouldn't you say??those bikers could somewhat be seen as a hate group as well