College Student Charged with Assaulting Cop with M&Ms

LOVE THIS COUNTRY wrote:

<quoted text>How dare you disrespect people in general! You are what is wrong with this Country! Disrespect is what starts all our problems..when people think they can get away with something like this when they set the bar higher!

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Phread01 wrote:

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I really hope you're making a joke.
I don't care how many times you try it, you're not going to beat someone to death with an M&M. Even if you wrap it in a big scary towel.
Some things are simply not a weapon. You couldn't CHOKE someone to death on an M&M, much less bludgeon them to death as you seem to be implying.

Phread01 wrote:

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I really hope you're making a joke.
I don't care how many times you try it, you're not going to beat someone to death with an M&M. Even if you wrap it in a big scary towel.
Some things are simply not a weapon. You couldn't CHOKE someone to death on an M&M, much less bludgeon them to death as you seem to be implying.

Zoom wrote:

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No joke just stating it is not the type of weapon but the action of interefring in a matter that did not concern him. He threw a projectile that was aimed at a police officer, that behavior may be acceptable to you but this man was wrong,wrong,wrong!! So you justify crime based on what you THINK as foolish but a person that works at a job that is life threatening every day would think it foolish also? I think not. Ask anyone who has been in combat and ask them about coke cans and what they were used for.

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Phread01 wrote:

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Now that you've clarified that you weren't making a joke, I can authoritatively state that you are making yourself seem to be a complete moron.
Again, let me reiterate for you since you seem to be slow...an M&M is not a coke can. He wasn't arrested for throwing a coke can. He wasn't arrested for wrapping oranges in a towel and beating someone with them. He was arrested for throwing M&Ms. Not even bags of M&Ms, but individual M&Ms made of milk chocolate and a hard (but non-lethal) candy shell and weighing something on the order of a gram each. M&Ms that are so light that their maximum velocity is limited by air resistance to such a degree that you could drop one from the top of a skyscraper onto someone's head and they'd sustain no injury.
A human being cannot throw an M&M hard enough to kill someone.
M&Ms are non-lethal weapons.
Can I be any more clear about the fact that we are talking about M&Ms and not some hypothetical non-traditional weapon like a balloon filled with ammonia, submerged in bleach and left under the bed of the unsuspecting officer?
We're not talking about a board with a nail in it.
Not lawn darts.
Not a fingernail file.
Not toenail clippers.
Not a plastic bag from the dry cleaner.
Not an innocuous piece of hastily filleted catfish with a needle-sharp bone concealed in the flesh.
Not a tissue with mucus from an ailing avian bird-flu victim in Bangladesh.
Not a bag of PopRocks and a soda.
Not an egg salad sandwich loaded with cholesterol.
M&Ms.
And, as someone who has held a job where my life was being threatened by any number of dangerous projectiles on a daily basis, I can, indeed, tell you that arresting someone for throwing M&Ms is completely retarded.
I said it before and I'll say it again now. The taxpayers who will see their hard-earned dollars wasted for months before the charges against this kid are finally dropped as frivolous will NOT be thanking this officer for his irresponsible behavior.

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Zoom wrote:

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Hey dipstick, I guess if you and your spouse go to dinner and some kid starts tossing M&Ms at you you would be stupid enough to take it. You are the moron to minimize the threat that could have been real to the cop. You are what is wrong with society, you justify idiotic behavior because you have the IQ of a wet fart.

Republicae wrote:

When the Law becomes so arbitrary that a police officer cannot use his common sense in such situations makes it evident that our country has lost its ever-loving collective mind. I would assume that a police officer would have far better things to do and would take far more care in clogging up the already stressed court systems in this country, but perhaps because such officers think that their uniform gives them the license to do whatever they see fit, no matter what the consequences, the costs, or the level of vacant stupidity in such cases.
I am amazed that the people of this country continue to put up with such idiocy from law enforcement. I see law officers taking liberties with the law all the time simply because they can get away with it. When those who swear to uphold the law break it or ignore it then there is no law.
In this case, it was purely an example of mismanagement of the taxpayers hard earned dollars to stifle the court's time in such a meaningless way.

Bill wrote:

cops are useless, I cannot think of any reason to ever call one. Except for the mandated requirements that a report must be filed in order to comply with some law.

Zoom wrote:

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Hey dipstick, I guess if you and your spouse go to dinner and some kid starts tossing M&Ms at you you would be stupid enough to take it. You are the moron to minimize the threat that could have been real to the cop. You are what is wrong with society, you justify idiotic behavior because you have the IQ of a wet fart.