This Greenwood-area driver decided red lights aren’t a thing and treated one like a 4-way stop, instead.
Greenwood-area driver and Redditor /u/Rockycore shared headshaking dashcam footage from earlier in February (Feb 12, 2026) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing a driver coming up to a red light at an intersection and, instead of waiting, decided waiting was not for them and treated it like a 4-way stop, instead.
Check out the dashcam footage embedded below with the original Reddit thread linked here.
The incident happened at the intersection of Greenwood Ave N and N 90th St. (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As the dashcam shows, OP is traveling northbound on Greenwood Ave N towards the aforementioned intersection.
A driver in a blue VW Tiguan can be seen rolling up to the intersection, stopping for 10 seconds, and, dissatisfied that the light isn’t turning green fast enough, decides to run it instead.
Of course, 4-seconds later, the light turns green.
Despite their 4D chess move and saving a handful of seconds, they essentially saved no time at all.
“You just don’t understand how valuable their time is. They just saved a second and a half. If you do that for 10 lights a day every day for a year, that’s an hour of your time, and time is money, baby,” the top comment from /u/ArctycDev sarcastically reads.
“But, he did stop,” /u/Britannicker points out.
In Seattle, Washington, running a red light (including violations caught by red‑light cameras) generally carries a **fine of about *$139* under the city’s municipal code for a red‑light camera violation, and that’s before all the fees. The ticket is a civil infraction and must be paid or contested through Seattle Municipal Court, but it does not result in points on your state driving record like a traditional moving violation would. (violationinfo.com)
