Brickbat: Rules Are Rules

Roanoke police
arrested Larry Wayne Dodson, threw
him to the ground, handcuffed him and hauled him off to jail,
all for riding his mobility scooter against traffic on the side of
the road. Dodson, who is paralyzed from the chest down, had gone to
get groceries at the local Kroger as he has done hundreds of times.
He began going home riding down the side of Electric Road. A police
officer stopped him and told him he had to ride in the same
direction as traffic.

Dodson said he felt safer facing traffic and to ride with
traffic he’d have to cross five lanes on a busy street. That didn’t
impress cops, who insisted state law said he had to ride with
traffic and arrested him.