That's a new way to run a red light...

[IT Grunt]

My wife got t-boned by some moron doing a parking lot cut back in her college days. She was driving along a 2 lane road, and went to turn right onto the road her house was on. At this particular corner was a gas station. Fuckwit who was behind her (and apparently thought she was driving too slow) thought he could get ahead of her by cutting through that gas station to get onto the same road she was turning on to. Unfortunately for him, my wife made the turn and began to accelerate faster than he anticipated, and he ended up caving in her passenger side door. This kid's father showed up and both had the audacity to yell at my wife for making a legal turn while fuckwit made an illegal manuever. In the end though, they didn't get away with it and he got a nice fat ticket.

[Andara Bledin]

I live in Southern California and have gotten a ticket for doing that.

The city might have a specific law, you could have not come to a complete stop before exiting the parking lot, or it's possible the cop didn't know that it wasn't specifically ticketable. Cops are not infallible, and I've had more than one give me false information. My ex-pa-in-law actually had two different cops, on the same day, give him mutually exclusive information on how to legally make a u-turn while in the middle of a straight road with a painted median that isn't a double yellow. (the correct answer, by the way, is to start the turn-around from the left driving lane and not from within the median strip)

As an aside, I just went through almost all signal and movement sections in the California driving code, and there doesn't seem to be anything at all regarding driving through a parking lot to go around an intersection. *shrug*

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[Zellie Crescent]

There has only been one time where I intentionally ran a red light. I saw the light turn yellow and knew I wasn't going to make it so I stopped, then I look in my rearview and see that the truck behind me is still going at full speed. With my only 2 choices being dead or getting a ticket, I chose the ticket. After I was accross I looked behind me only to see the truck turn onto an off ramp that was immediatly after the light.

[Dreamstalker]

When I was doing stage crew, the set truck would often run red lights if it was yellow when we reached the intersection. The alternative was causing a messy accident involving (at minimum) the rest of the caravan behind us.