penny = deadly weapon?

[williamsburg]

anyone see this

Assault With A Deadly Penny? - Indiana News Story - WRTV Indianapolis

 

[threefiftyfour]

I guess they have to charge him with something. Although, the car honking was breaking an Indiana law, so where are those charges?

 

[TopDog]

Anything can be a weapon.
With my awesome Ninja skills I can kill you with a rolled up newspaper.
The jerk that threw the penny's can go to jail like any other asshat that assaults other people and destroys property.

 

[snapping turtle]

Sounds like it was a problem with someones common cents.

 

[PapaScout]

Maybe the driver was in the Penny Lane? :-P

 

[! twitty]

In middle school this kid kept throwing a nickel around when the teacher was out of the room and I started to get annoyed. I caught it and threw it at him. The teacher walked in as I did so and I got detention for, "throwing the nickel with deadly force." Some of the dumbest crap I have ever heard.

 

[printcraft]

These stories depress me... I'd like to hear something bad not happening for a change.

I need a song to cheer me up.....

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uROuR3Jm6M[/ame]

 

[Doty]

This didn't happen in Indiana so no charges for honking.

 

[ghostpoint]

I read a similar issue like this several years back lady was suppose to get 2yrs on it - 'McMissile' Moment Lands Mom in Jail

No one was injured, but the cup launcher, Jessica Hall, 25, of Jacksonville, N.C., was charged and convicted by a Stafford County jury of maliciously throwing a missile into an occupied vehicle, a felony in Virginia. The instructions given to the jury said that "any physical object can be considered a missile. A missile can be propelled by any force, including throwing."

 

[Sailor]

Pennies in the old Star Trek Tracer Gun, could be assault.

 

[1911 DeadHead]

I snapped (kindalike you do with a bottle cap) a nickel at my buddy and it hit him right between the eyes. Broke skin. Would have felt really horrible if it got his eye.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I thought you were supposed to chuck change when moving...

How the times have changed.

 

[TopDog]

I read a similar issue like this several years back lady was suppose to get 2yrs on it - 'McMissile' Moment Lands Mom in Jail

While waiting for sentence by the Judge she was looking at two years possibly less if the Judge reduced the sentence.

What was the response from the woman> "Two years! What did I do?"
Even when Ballin testified, Hall said, "I'm thinking about what I'm going to cook when I get home."

And that my friends is why silly sentences don't seem so silly. As far as she was concerned she did nothing wrong, she learned absolutely nothing from the trial and the 30 days already served. For crying out loud are people really this dumb? I suspect that if the woman had shown even slight remorse and agreed she had a anger problem the Judge would have reduced the sentence, perhaps even just community service?

Hall also was found guilty of reckless driving, assault against Ballin and assault and battery against Fowle. For her conviction on those charges, the jury recommended she be fined $1,000.

Later in the article she states> "Now people are going to see me as an angry, road rage, convicted felon. And it really upsets me," she said. "I must have been wrong . . . but seriously, God. Lesson learned. Lesson learned is one hour in this place."

 

[hoosierdoc]

The author tried to be funny but the comments here are way funnier, and even that is an insult to the author (and also a dig at you all)

Doesn't the fact he was in a car when he did the assault make it worse?

 

[BSUrugger]

The Penny 'Pitcher' stikes again!

If we had a penny for every pun on this thread.....

I couldnt resist.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I'll bet the police were confused when they arrived and found a copper on the ground