2026-10-18 09:17 UTC
Okay, but define standing there, and define public space, and define blocking.
Is standing in a public space for 10 minutes blocking?
What if you’re standing in a line? What if you’re standing, looking at a parking meter? Perhaps you’re waiting for the walk sign on the road, and you’re standing on the edge of the sidewalk?
Is there now a large list of exceptions? Does that mean standing in a public space where your activity is not part of the list of exceptions means you are now obstructing it?
What if you’re standing in a public space, but you’re a worker and are actually tasked with working on that public space? Technically, you are standing in a public space, so you are blocking it, no?
Is there some temporal element to this? If not, then are you technically blocking a public space simply by existing in that public space? If at any point you are in that public space, you are not actively moving out of that public space?
So on and so forth. This can continue forever.
The implications of something like that are pretty far-reaching, and the ambiguities are great.
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