A man in West Virginia got charged with Battery against a police officer...for farting on him. Your thoughts? (article in question)
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Anti-Semantic - Quaerens Intellectum
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_on_fe_st/odd_flatulence_charge;_ylt=A9G_Rz8oAdtI70MBVBes0NUE
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Stupidest thing I have ever heard of in my life. What's next, offensive smelling burps or body odor constitute battery on an officer? What's really going on here? If this reflects a bad attitude towards the law or towards cops is this really going to be fixed by waaaaayyyyyy over-punishing somebody? If I lived in West Virginia I'd have a petition started to have this officer disciplined or hopefully fired for abusing his power. If our justice system actually affected attitudes, I would say punish Mr. farting man with something to fix his bad attitude, but since it often doesn't I would say, "LET IT SLIDE".
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I guess my answer is if that qualifies as battery against an ordinary citizen, then yes. It seems a little ridiculous when it's easy enough for the person to get up and avoid it. Probably be best comparable to whatever crime a smoker who smokes in a non-smoking area gets charged with.
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The charges were eventually thrown out. I haven't heard anything about whether the officer is being disciplined for abuse of power.
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Police officers are very sensitive people, you have to understand that - they even wear special police thongs to protect their genitals from arousal.
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Reminds me of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". The French guarding their castle against the attacking English, "I fart in your general directon." And then they would fling a cow over th erampart. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often funnier too.
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