Around here, if you are first in line at the light you better not react too quickly to the green light. You need to wait until all of the red light runners have had their chance or you'll end up with an SUV in your back seat.
Operaghost's post reminded me of an old joke.
An old lady called her elderly husband's cell phone one day to say "Dear, please be careful on the freeway, I saw on the news that there is a car going the wrong way down the express lane."
The husband replied "Its not just one car, its hundreds of them."