Towards a definitive list of legitimate and immutable reasons for not stopping at red lights

You no gets catched

Or if you need to escape someone trying to ticket you for moving out the way of an emergency vehicle.

A good reason for rlj is colourblindness.

Not really, unless they live in a vacuum (or they're a complete fuckwit) they'll be aware which lights are which (i.e. the top one is red, etc) and they'll still be able to tell which one of the 3 lights are illuminated or not.

Or if you need to escape someone trying to ticket you for moving out the way of an emergency vehicle.

Can't escape the cameras (my brother was done by a camera on the back of a bus for moving into a bus lane to let an ambulance through quicker). Cocks.

3 days and no merging? I'm surprise at you @hippy

3 days? Whatchutalkinboutwillis? There's been no merge facility since we moved to the new forum software. That's why there's so much duplicated shit. It'll take years to kill everyone clean up the mess.

Legit reason for not stopping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkmYt4Bcpxo

Well.. Mostly I jump red lights at night ..mostly

There's no legitimate reasons. If you jump the lights it's against the law. If you choose to do it you should accept that and stop trying to make some moral justification for yourself. BTW I jump them all the time

Anyway here's the list knock yourself out

No-one around to see
Too Drunk
A bit Tired
Slightly Late
Fixie Skidda Alleycat points
For the Lulz
Hill Start
Being a badass
Out of embarrassment
You're just about to get a Strava KOM
Trying to copy the person trackstanding and failing badly
Colourblind
Need a poo
Cannot trackstand
Looks like a bad crowd in the ASL
Tax Reasons
Ped pushed crossing button when there wasn't a cyclist/vehicle
within sight
You are turning left (because you can do this in the US of freakin'
A so it must be OK)
You have a flamethrower strapped to your bike which is legal in the
US and you can torch anything that gets in your way
Everyone else is doing it
You really need that poo
You did a poo
The light isn't particularly tall, about waist height, and you
fancy the athletic challenge.
Touching cloth.
Because existential crisis
need to get a ticket
You're feeling a bit frisky and the light is red hawt.
Dodgy knee
Riding braeklzz, can't stop don't want to
Because you're just more important than those light-stoppers.
Trying to even things up since London's infrastructure mainly
serves cars.
anarchist
You need to get to your destination so that you can FIX THE FICKING
LIST.
Too busy fixing lists to look for red lights
It's 2am, I triple checked, there's fuck all coming and I don't
have a number plate
Your mum.
Solipsism
You stopped in front of everyone waiting in the ASL and suddenly
feel really self conscious.
Simon says.
Daryll from down the road and a bunch of other kids did it first.
It's sex night
Has bar bag and map holder setup
Everything is inherently worthless
You finally figured out how to fix the list.
Cunt shift.
Everyone should have slowed to 10mph when going through the opposing green lights.
You have Butt Hurt
Cos waiting at lights is bad for your health
It's Sunday and I'm fucked if I'm spending any more time getting to work and back than I have to and the only reason I ever waited at red was to feel morally superior to everyone else anyway and fuck everyone else.
Because riot prediction
To avoid being bottled. standard.co.uk/news/crime/cyc­list-attacked-with-broken-bottle-after-s­topping-at-traffic-lights-near-regents-p­ark-10219813.html

You're allowed to jump the red and a half open Tower Bridge on sex night

standard.co.uk/news/crime/cyc­list-jumps-lights-then-Tower-Bridge-on-the-promise-of-sexy-time-696969.html

Cos Silicon Roundabout is a roundabout and there is no-one coming from the right, so the red light is sort of irrelevant.

This excuse may only work very early in the morning.

a solution to this thread,

A proposed ordinance would make the city the largest to allow bicyclists to roll past stop signs if the path is clear.

San Francisco May Let Bicyclists Yield at Stop Signs