You must stop at all Red Lights (Optional)

At least that's how drivers manuals must read for some people.

Imagine this, you come up to a red light, you see crossing traffic proceeding. So you know that the people across the road from you also must have a stop sign. Your light turns green. Logically, the people in the left turn lane across from you have a red light. Yes?

Well, this was a situation I drove up to a couple of days ago. I drive up to the light in the situation described above. Across from me in the left turn lane (oncoming) there are three cars lined up. Seconds after I came to a full stop at my red light, my light turns green. The instant that it turns green I see the second car in the left turn lane drive around the first car and make his left turn. Somehow this driver must have gotten a different drivers manual than I did. I swear mine informed me that I must stop at ALL red lights, and may only proceed through them if they blink or I am turning right.

The traffic I see every day amazes me. I swear, drivers seem to forget the laws of the road when they are an inconvenience to them. I can't believe that they have so little regard to the safety of themselves or the people around them that they willingly and blatantly ignore the law. *sigh*