Ryan:  A similar bit of foolishness occurred in the Los Angeles area a number of years ago.  A trench ditch collapsed in on a worker, burying him under much dirt.  Two men, driving by, saw what had happened and immediately went to his rescue, thus saving his life.  They were thereafter charged with a failure to first notify some local bureaucracy, so that he could be rescued according to established policies.  He would have died, of course, but as the mantra tells us: “the law is the law.”

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