IANALIf he was jay walking and drunk that should go a long way to mitigating your mom ' s liability . That starts to become a situation that he created by his actions . <| sep |> Near a friend ' s house there was a 90 degree bend in the road , with the road that my friend lived in joining on the outside of the bend . This meant that you had to turn across traffic on a nearly blind corner at the best of times . The person who owned the house on the inside of that corner regularly allowed their hedge to grow large and bushy and reduce the visibility even more and cause cars to drive in the middle of the road round this corner . One night when this had got particularly bad , a few of us were pretty loaded and decided that we ' d dress as ninjas , gather a selection of shears and secateurs and heavily trim their bush . We did a really neat job of it , as you would expect from ninjas .