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Like a threat is any better.
It is, actually. If you threaten someone nobody gets hurt. It's incredibly simple.
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Apparently you have never been pelted in the face with a water ballon.
The kid was 9 years old... he doesn't have the muscle to do any damage with a water balloon.
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And secondly, there could have been rocks in the water ballon.
What kind of little kid puts rocks in a water balloon? If you ever come at me with a comb I'll throw a rock at your face and tell people I thought there was a knife on the other side.
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And third, you can't charge harrassment charges for a water ballon fight. You would have to charge assault charges, like she had them charged on her.
You can if she didn't agree to having a water balloon fight... I didn't read the whole article but it seems pretty retarded for someone to throw a rock instead of a water balloon in a water balloon fight.
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So, if a 21 year old women was being over powered by a 22 year old man and the guy was going to do bad stuff to her shifty.gif . and she found a gun on him and shot him *Below the waist* lets say the leg. It wouldn't be considered as self defence?
Guns are put under a different set of laws. If she had the chance to threaten him, but didn't, I'm pretty sure it won't be considered self defense. Seriously... you don't shoot someone unless you have a damn good reason. If you have any idea how much damage and pain a bullet causes, you'll know why.
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[sarcasm]Every 11 needs to be told what to do if you are being harrassed because it happens to everyone at the age of 11. OMG those parents are so stupid for not telling their kid not to throw a rock when she was being over powered by multiple boys.[/sarcasm]
Not specifically at the age of eleven. Parents need to teach their kids what to do in situations like this before they go wondering around without them. It's not hard to understand.
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oh yeah too bad she wasn't a celebrity because she would be innocent if she was.
No, she would have just been let off with a lighter than her already incredibly light sentence. Not that this topic had anything to do with celebrities... at all.
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Actually, if a water baloon hits you hard in the chest, it can kill you.
A nine year old has the muscle to throw a balloon at a moving targets chest with the force to kill an eleven year old girl?
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I find this utterly idiotic by the way, throwing a rock is not assualt with a deadly weapon.
Do you mean she should have been charged with assualt with a deadly weapon, or that it shouldn't... I don't know the exact charges and that has a double contradicting meaning. If you mean it isn't, it's not the fact that a has the potential of being a deadly weapon, it's that it was used as one.
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Shows how messed up our justice system if we convict a 11 year old for assault since she threw a rock.
How is that messed up? The system is taking action to show that it's not okay to hurt people, even if they hurt you a little first.
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Here in Preston, you touch someone that's a minor and you're above the age of 18, instant jail time for you.
Only if the person claims assault. It's because people are scared of teachers who are pedifiles. Why do you think teachers will never stay in the same room with one child?
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And I would really like to hear how the hell a rock is a deadly weapon, last time I checked, socks wern't deadly weapons either, but oh noes, you could strangle someone with one, best classify socks as deadly weapons too, I guess I'll be getting arrested for whacking someone with a sock now.
It's not that it could be used as a deadly weapon, it's that it was used as a deadly weapon. Bring a pen to school nobody bothers you, stab a pen at someones throat you'll be charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Rules are rules.
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This is the sort of incident that makes me want to move to canada.
Please don't...
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This is just ridiculous really, did you notice the part about how they sent several squad cars and a HELICOPTER to subdue a eleven year old girl who threw a rock
If their parents had the wit to just take care of it themselves this wouldn't have happened. Someone clearly called 911... instead of asking for an ambulance, they wanted police... I don't know how badly the boy was hurt though so...
So many of you deserve to be told what you are... but apparently it's flaming here.
Stay away filthy (as in, not all) Americans.