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[Ryujin]

So if it's assault in Canada, does that make it assalt in 'Murikuh?

Protip-
The old common law difference that is drummed into your head in law school is assault is when you threaten to kick someone's posterior; battery is when you actually kick someone's posterior.

However, every state has different laws, and some have gotten rid of the distinction and will use aggravated assault, etc.


Finally, I still remember when I was watching the shows from the UK, and they kept talking about GBH. At first, I was confused with, um, the Cosby stuff. And then I finally realized it was battery (Grievous Bodily Harm).

It's being discussed on a message board in Ontario, Canada, about a woman being charged with assault in Ontario, Canada. For interest's sake the assault was with a water pistol. The woman who was charged says that she accidentally* sprayed a neighbour, who several people interviewed essentially said is a male Karen, and whose ex-husband is a member of the Ontario Provincial Police. One guess which organization the police who charged her are members of.

* Her family was hosting a children's party and she was playing with a kid, with water guns.

 

[Bedrockgames]

One guess which organization the police who charged her are members of.

* Her family was hosting a children's party and she was playing with a kid, with water guns.

The Spanish Inquisition

 

[prabe]

The Spanish Inquisition

Insert your own dam gif meme here.

 

[Ryujin]

The Spanish Inquisition

That was... unexpected.

 

[Scribe]

It's being discussed on a message board in Ontario, Canada, about a woman being charged with assault in Ontario, Canada. For interest's sake the assault was with a water pistol. The woman who was charged says that she accidentally* sprayed a neighbour, who several people interviewed essentially said is a male Karen, and whose ex-husband is a member of the Ontario Provincial Police. One guess which organization the police who charged her are members of.

* Her family was hosting a children's party and she was playing with a kid, with water guns.

I think I saw this headline, and said 'not today Satan' and moved on by.

 

[overgeeked]

Not here.

I’m really frustrated with bullies. Especially bullies with power.

You can’t have an honest conversation with someone holding a gun to your head.

 

[prabe]

Not here.

I’m really frustrated with bullies. Especially bullies with power.

You can’t have an honest conversation with someone holding a gun to your head.

"You have a gun to my head. You know that, right?"

(I jest, but I get the situation probably isn't funny, and I don't mean to mock you.)

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

"You have a gun to my head. You know that, right?"

(I jest, but I get the situation probably isn't funny, and I don't mean to mock you.)

I mean, I guess funny depends on the eye of the beholder?

 

[Ryujin]

I think I saw this headline, and said 'not today Satan' and moved on by.

One of the other posters managed to find a single case in Canada, that was on point. A woman sprayed her neighbour with a garden hose, stating that she did it in self defence. The court made a couple of findings. One was that the woman did not have grounds for self defence and that an assault (not assault with weapon) had occurred. They also found that the incident was so piddlingly minor that they refused to make a finding of guilt in the matter.

That can pretty much be used as precedent a water pistol is not a weapon and there should be no finding of guilt, in the recent case, even if she fully intended to spray the annoying neighbour.

 

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