Re: WTF is wrong with people?
 

In Illinois, assault means putting someone in reasonable fear of receiving a battery. No contacts needs to be made, and certainly no injury needs to occur. The definitions and semantics vary widely from state to state.

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I agree that there may be circumstances where is it both legal and proper to strike a woman. This scenario is certainly NOT one of them.

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In Kentucky, you pretty much need to be bloodied for it to be assault. :sh

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Yup, the word "assault" means very different things from state to state. In Illinois, your example would be "battery".

In Illinois, there also is no "assault and battery", as when you have battered someone, you have moved past assault, and if you have simply assaulted someone, you could not have committed a battery (all by IL definitions).

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Is spraying her with the hose assault?

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In Illionois that could range from battery (high end) to disorderly conduct (low end), but could not be assault by definition. Might be different in the OPs jurisdiction, though.

Re: WTF is wrong with people?
 

what about a burning bag of poop on their front door?

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Im not a lawyer or in law enforcement so Im not going to even try to decipher the law as its written or enforced.

...and some of the comments in this thread just make me shake my head.

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:r

Disorderly conduct.....and a hoot to boot.

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Sounds like Georgia. At home you have to be on the ground bleeding and someone had to have seen it :)

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:r :r :r

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Not if you don't get caught :noon

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Sounds like most of these states define "assault" as Illinois defines "battery". Nobody said Illinois lawmakers were the sharpest knives in the drawer. ;)

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I heard flowers don't like clorox.. I'm just sayin'....

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Battery in Georgia, is that thing we stick in our truck to crank it :wnr

Re: WTF is wrong with people?
 

I suppose that would depend upon whether this woman is guilty of assualt and/or battery; one does have the right to defend themself, and, if she was continuing to yell and scream at him after initial contact, then an argument could be made...

At any rate, it's now an issue for the law to deal with.

:bdh

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Thanks Tom this was the point of my whole post.
Well that and pulling a cigar from someones mouth likely resulted in no actual physical contact to the OP. While you may have a trespass to and destruction of private property's. No court in this state or most will find a battery has occurred. If I responded to the call I would be hooking the tough guys who punched a women or worse over a 10 dollar cigar. Even if there was an unwanted touching you would have a impossible time explaining how punch a woman in the face or using an force that inflicted injury was required.

Again come on boys, its a 10 dollar cigar and a miserable women with her kids. :r

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I am pretty confident that my dating life can be defined as "Assault and Flattery".

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Damn those Duracells!! Damn them all to hell!!!





:rolleyes:

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Texas defines both very similarly to Illinois--and, as far as I know, that's the majority view.