A Nevada prostitution ordinance is being challenged as overbroad:

Under the ordinance, police can arrest someone who "repeatedly beckons to, stops, attempts to stop or engage persons passing by in conversation, or repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicle operators by hailing, waiving of arms or other bodily gestures."

Yeah, it probably would. And the language forbidding attempts to "stop motor vehicle operators by hailing, waiving of arms or other bodily gestures" would also seem to criminalize attempts to summon help after an accident or mechanical breakdown.

It might even criminalize flagging down a cab!

The people who write such laws seem to be possessed by a need to sacrifice common sense at the altar of public morality. In the old days, police didn't enforce ridiculous laws like this, or if they did, they availed themselves of something once called "police discretion."

But alas! Discretion is also based on common sense, so it too must be abolished.