Never as described.
The roads I ride the most are 4-6 lane intersections both ways and the time it would take me from a start to get across in the same scenario (beating the left turners) I'd be road pizza. I have on rare occassion run them orange at the last minute since I was moving and had momentum on my side. I also have 4 jusiditions of police in the area (GSP (barrack just past my office), KSU (campus police based in my building) City of Kennesaw and county (just past the GSP barrack) AND a Police training facility up the road on my commute.