Assault with a food seasoning?

Guessing there will be state governments introducing that as an actual crime next sessions.

/you can have my Mrs. Dash when you pry it...

"What am I going to charge her with?"

Assault and pepper?

I know it's only related by the slenderest of threads, but it's times like this when I wonder how the Jennifer Fox story/investigation is coming along. . ..

The woman who pepper-sprayed Porter Ranch Wal-Mart shoppers...


Pepper spray *and* salad dressing? She should fry!

Sadly, there is no charge for chronic assholism.

SilentStrider: Simple assault, with as many charges as people who can demonstrate they got sprayed.

I really shouldn't have to do the LAPD's job for them.

Public Endangerment, maybe?

BurnShrike: "What am I going to charge her with?"

Assault and pepper?

I have a man crush on you now.

Good thing she wasn't carrying one of these:

I can see how it would be a tough case to prove, there was a melee going on

BurnShrike: "What am I going to charge her with?"

Assault and pepper?

Frowns on your shenanigans:

A&B
Incitement to riot

But the LA jails are all full up with Lohans!

/pretty sure that some of the victims will put the attacker through tort litigation hell
//but she saved $100 on the X-box....

This is a slippery slope. The "fear for my life" defense can go too far. Step too close behind me and all I have to say is "I fear for my life" before I Taze you or pepper spray you. Recent story in my home town: a driver shot another driver in the neck because he thought the other guy had a gun. No gun. No charges filed yet.

BurnShrike: "What am I going to charge her with?"

Assault and pepper?

**throws produce**

Inciting a panic? Aren't there laws like that for yelling fire in a movie theater? I'd hardly think causing blindness and sudden intense pain would be the appropriate solution for dealing with a mob that's out of control.

BurnShrike: "What am I going to charge her with?"

Assault and pepper?



Approves.

madgonad: A&B
Incitement to riot

But the LA jails are all full up with Lohans!

/pretty sure that some of the victims will put the attacker through tort litigation hell
//but she saved $100 on the X-box....

It's unlikely she will get sued as even if you get a judgment in your favor how do you collect? No deep pocket. They will sue Walmart ... maybe she will be named in the suit but chances are she's a broke ass biatch.

If I was caught in a crowd surging forward to grab a video game and about to be crushed I'd pepper spray all of you farkers to avoid being crushed by the tons of blubber on display at Walmart.

And I'd probably go ahead and grab the game I came for too.

I'm sure if I sprayed Barney Fife here in the face with pepper spray, he'd find something to charge me with.

Not that the item this was over would ever justify the use of paper spray in a case like this, but the fact this was over a 5 year old video game console worth a few hundred bucks just boggles the mind.

Ennuipoet: brigid_fitch: I know that when I'm stuck in a crush of people and about to be trampled to death, I reach into my purse, grab my mace, spray the crowd, and then quickly recover enough to grab my purchase & proceed to the registers. Getting the hell out of the way of a crazed Walmart mob never crosses my mind.

*rolls eyes*
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You might be surprised how useful this things can be at clearing your way through a crowd.

Is that a +1 mace?

BurnShrike: "What am I going to charge her with?"

Assault and pepper?

I love you.

Well it seems to me that her self-defense argument should be thrown out due to the fact that she then proceeded to go to the checkout and make her purchases and then quietly slip out of the store. It seems to me if she felt threatened enough to use mace to defend herself, then it would be expected that she would at least vacate the the premises as quickly as possible (you know, not standing in line waiting to get checked out) for her own safety, if not report the alleged actions which resulted in her feeling the need to use mace to the police, or at least the store management. She could be charged, they just don't feel like it.

It's a vegetable, therefore you must acquit.

BurnShrike: "What am I going to charge her with?"

Assault and pepper?

You know, I was going to make my own joke here but I just can't top this.

She was just trying to spice up everyones shopping experience.

Let me add Los Angeles to the list of places I'm never going to live. Oh wait, it was already on there.

Wow, have fun at next year's black friday. Everyone will be packing.

TravisBickle62: I can see how it would be a tough case to prove, there was a melee going on

Did she stick around and buy a farking X-box ????

Charge her with, i dunno, coup against House Atreides?

TravisBickle62: It's unlikely she will get sued as even if you get a judgment in your favor how do you collect? No deep pocket. They will sue Walmart ... maybe she will be named in the suit but chances are she's a broke ass biatch.

A big business won't go to the trouble of running down a non-rich person, but if you don't mind jumping through hoops you can still effectively punnish someone financially. My wife (an attorney) will do this from time to time. It helps because it makes people realize she means business. She has even gotten debts PAST a bankruptcy and gotten in front of primary mortgage note holders on foreclosures (I am an accountant and I don't know how she does that). Also, many idiots will end up with contempt charges and get locked up (with their bond set to match their debt). You would be amazed how much money can appear from non-well-to-do families.

"You know it's a sad day when people cannot act like human beings when it comes to Christmas shopping," Marisol Arnold commented on the Daily News website.

You know it's a sad day when human beings have devolved far enough to consider "shopping" a cultural imperative.

Inciting a riot. Terrorism.

PghThermal: TravisBickle62: I can see how it would be a tough case to prove, there was a melee going on

Did she stick around and buy a farking X-box ????

Once she was free of the melee and her safety was no longer threatened, there was no reason why she shouldn't proceed with her purchase.

MBooda: Charge her with, i dunno, coup against House Atreides?
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careful, She might learn to ride Shai-Hulud then we will have a problem. She will have an infanite amount of spice.

Discharging a vegetable product within city limits?

So I guess this will end the endless online speculation about her race. Obviously she's white. Probably attractive or at least facially symmetrical.

Well, they can't really point a finger when it comes to using pepper spray, can they? It would be like the pot calling the kettle attractive and successful.

Cuz God forbid the authorities would want to discourage people from pepperspraying one another on a regular basis.

Ennuipoet: yves0010: Is that a +1 mace?


Yup, it used to belong to Gary Gygax.

Last I heard, he was sucked into a non-existing universe due to a time destorting "fry hole" or a "Hawking Hole"

yves0010: Last I heard, he was sucked into a non-existing universe due to a time destorting "fry hole" or a "Hawking Hole"

Damn Gazebos