08-08-2019, 05:52 PM
(08-08-2019, 10:39 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(08-08-2019, 09:49 AM)plam Wrote: Most people probably would tell WRPS, but I don't think there is any obligation to tell them (and in that case no one would get a ticket...)
See, that is the problem. The way it should work is the owner gets the ticket, unless they testify as to who was borrowing the car from them at that time and that person gets the ticket (if they contest it, back to the owner’s liability for the ticket), or if they report the car stolen (meaning that whoever was operating the car at the time would be criminally liable for car theft, or it would go back to the owner possibly with an additional charge of perjury in the event the person actually borrowed it and didn’t steal it).
Cars are sufficiently dangerous that owners need to be held responsible for anything that is done with them.
If owners don’t like it, they can be careful about to whom they lend their vehicles.
I agree, and certainly many others do as well, but this is not what the law says right now.
Of course there are others who would vehemently oppose this, why, I don't know, they seem to have a very one-dimensional understanding of the concept of "freedom".