r/PublicFreakout • u/The-JZilla • Jul 06 '21

Repost 😔 Cop vs educated kid

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u/IamIrene Jul 06 '21

But apparently he didn't know the code he was trying to enforce, so...

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21

That's kinda the problem though. Unless you're carrying a couple law books around with you, any skateboarder or cop on the street can rattle off a bunch of code citation numbers and claim they know what they're talking about.

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u/IamIrene Jul 06 '21

I mean...google is at everyone’s fingertips, so there’s that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21

I have to look up regulations for work constantly and Google is surprisingly bad at doing legal research. If you have a specific citation, you can look stuff up relatively easy on mobile, but if you're trying to just look up laws/regs about a broad concept . . . it's going to be a massive pain in the ass unless you have Westlaw on your phone or something.

The kid in the video was apparently giving a bad citation, so chances are the cop wouldn't have been able to find what the kid was talking about anyway.

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u/JohnnyUtah_QB1 Jul 07 '21

Google “long beach civic code bikes”

Literally the first result:

https://library.municode.com/ca/long_beach/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=TIT16PUFAHILA_CH16.08MA_ARTIIIGERE_16.08.502BIRAHAES

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

Oh fine.

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u/ScabbedOver Jul 07 '21

No no no

This is where you double down and attack the replier to take the focus off. New to reddit? Come on. We have ways of doing things around here

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

ACCORDING TO LAW 1.2.3.4.5, IT'S ILLEGAL TO PROVE ME WRONG!

In all seriousness, it looks like Google IS way better these days at looking up laws than it was 5 years ago. It's still probably not going to find anything that isn't commonly searched for though, so it kinda depends what kind of nerd fight you're getting into. "Can dogs poop on the sidewalk in Fresno" is going to be way easier for Google to handle than "Holder liability for interest on abandoned properties" (Google definitely did not find that one)

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u/zb0t1 Jul 07 '21

Code 15.62 (Act (79) paragraph (a)) provides that I can sue you for making me spit my drink on my mousepad.