[mikeash]

Getting lost doesn't remove your ability to read signs that tell you not to enter a particular street.

[berns]

But what do the signs say? I'm really curious. Can you visit a friend? Do the police escort you to your friends house?

[mikeash]

"I'm going to a friend's house. He is located at $ADDRESS."

If you're proposing this as a way to avoid a justified ticket by lying to the police, all I'll say is, good luck with that.

[tptacek]

"NO THROUGH TRAFFIC".

[kinghajj]

But what if you believed that the street was, in fact, the way to your destination (a friend's house)?

[tptacek]

This feels like a discussion in which "NO THROUGH TRAFFIC" signs are a proposal, something abstract, that doesn't exist. "NO THROUGH TRAFFIC" signs are everywhere, and they are routinely ticketed. If your friend lives on the street you're ticketed on, you probably won't get a ticket. If they don't, you probably will.

[kinghajj]

Well it seems that they're not universally enforceable, which is probably why some people are having difficulty accepting it.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/12/no_through_traffic_signs...

[tptacek]

This is a nonsensical article. No Through Traffic signs aren't unconstitutional; they're enforced all over the place.

It's possible that this particular township didn't have laws on the books making the signs enforceable, and the police and residents put signs there anyways. But unless Alabama has a truly wacky state constitution, that problem is a city council meeting away from being fixed.

[mikeash]

I don't know. I suggest you ask a policeman or a judge.