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Students Charged With Felony Snowball Throwing
Charles Gill and Ryan Knight are facing felony charges for allegedly throwing snow at a plow and an undercover police car. The pair were charged with throwing missiles at occupied vehicles. If convicted, the men face 1-5 years in prison, and a maximum $2,500 fine. In addition to the snowball throwers, a group making snow angels was detained, but no charges were filed.
Casting magic missile at a cop is a serious offense! okay, I didn't RTFA or even the entire summary... but it sounded bad.
Step 1: Throw snowballs at cars.
Step 2: Run like hell!
If cops are responding to a "snowballs thrown" call, then they seriously must not have enough to do!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Prison is too good for them, send them to Gitmo!
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Is this that case last month where the police detective reponded to a college snowball fight by threatening students with his sidearm?
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
RTFA. They weren't throwing snowballs at the plow and police car; they were throwing snow with a shovel. They continued to throw snow when the cops opened their doors and got snow inside the cop car... way to piss off the cops, morons!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Everybody knows you use a snowblower to bury cops.
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
I think it is, as for that that incident with the police detective the video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFC8mNdxV0c
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clearly, it snow joking matter
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No, it isn't. The news release states the incident occurred on the 6th of February around 5 pm.
If they had been busting snowball throwers when I was their age, I would be doing life in prison.
...See? Better ideas already. :-)
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
Okay these two are complete morons but a felony charge? I think that is a bit much. 100 days community service with a misdemeanor charge.
Lol
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Bring it on badass, we'll tape you to a lamp post and pants you, then throw snowballs at your micro unit. I bet your mommy calls the cops.
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Sounds like someone was teased as a kid and wasn't able to overcome it. "Meek" could be considered a form of "nice". There are a variety of sociological reasons behind teasing, and teasing can also be a form of positive socialization and an opportunity for improvement if the target of that teasing is emotionally stable enough. Particularly children without brothers or sisters end up having a hard time because they are inexperienced in dealing with social conflict. On the other hand children with many siblings will be prone to deal with teasing quite well. Generally children who remain calm and collected or take action that will not seriously escalate tension in the situation will be capable of diffusing it and avoiding negative future confrontations, whereas children who react poorly will be targeted repeatedly.
As a parent do your best to teach your children to remain calm, not to over-react, and to be capable of laughing at themselves. If your children are being teased over bad hygiene or not being able to keep up with the class then your child has problems that need to be remedied and not ignored.Of course no child will be completely capable of handling teasing in any immediate fashion, but each time they are teased they are also being offered an opportunity to overcome their own weaknesses and social barriers. If they are never capable of overcoming it they'll develop into an angry adult who posts emotionally frustrated comments on nerd news sites as AC like the parent poster here.
The police point out that this wasn't just a few snowballs and that this occurred in the middle of a snow storm! These guys were throwing SHOVEL fulls of snow onto windshields and when the officers attempted to exit their vehicle they received shovel fulls of snow as well!
These weren't 10 year old children but 21 year old college students who ought to have had a little more common sense! I'm not sure a felony charge is warranted unless they're being charged with criminal stupidity but they sure ought to be charged with something. Not the brightest bulbs on the porch....
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YES! YES! We should kill 'em in the 'lectric chair, bring them back, and kill'em again. Then turn it on till they burn to ashes and deficate on the remains.
Or, we could get a decent sense of perspective and realize that police acting like goose stepping thugs does far more damage to society than a couple college students over-doing the winter fun ever can.
Surely hauling them to the police station and then charging them with simple disorderly conduct would make the point just fine without making the police look worse than the students.
Additionally, they weren't throwing snowballs - they were heaving shovels full of snow at cars during a snowstorm.
There were numerous complaints over 2 days.
People have enough distractions when they're driving.