Snowball throwing, now a felony

[legalskier]

***Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday's blizzard....[They] were then apprehended and booked into jail for throwing missiles at occupied vehicles, a felony.***
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0209101snow1.html

Who hasn't thrown snowballs at passing cars? :blink:

 

[bvibert]

Wow!

 

[Glenn]

We're turning into a nation of weenies.

 

[SkiDork]

mmmmm weenies...

 

[ctenidae]

If I were the plow driver, I'd have tried to plow them in.

 

[Geoff]

It's actually "Shoot or throw missile at law enforc./emerg. veh. w/o malice". It has a 1 year mandatory minimum sentence.

Some cop was being a real a-hole. This statute is clearly intended to be applied to people who shoot guns at cop cars. I know of a cop in my home town who had his house burned down for pulling stuff like that.

 

[legalskier]

I know of a cop in my home town who had his house burned down for pulling stuff like that.

Now there's a felony....

 

[Geoff]

Now there's a felony....

The same cop also had his cop car stolen and torched. When you pull that stuff often enough and abuse your power, some people get even. He was eventually fired.

 

[ctenidae]

It's actually "Shoot or throw missile at law enforc./emerg. veh. w/o malice". It has a 1 year mandatory minimum sentence.

Some cop was being a real a-hole. This statute is clearly intended to be applied to people who shoot guns at cop cars. I know of a cop in my home town who had his house burned down for pulling stuff like that.

I can see there being a charge including the "without malice" if it interferes with the execution of duties, etc etc. But tossing snowballs at an unmarked car? Hardly think that's a hanging offense.

 

[spring_mountain_high]

i did it too when i was younger, but if you think about it, throwing anything at a car, especially one in motion, has to potential to be a very bad scene...a few years back some kids in allentown were dropping chucks of ice and snow off an overpass at the cars below and killed some lady

 

[bigbog]

..since when is throwing snowballs close to dropping ice chunks from overpasses..?
...However I guess I'm not surprised when a 12" snowfall is their normal "disaster".....LOL

 

[MommaBear]

Snowballs are defined as missles? Wow.

 

[campgottagopee]

Glad they waited-----35 yrs ago I would be looking at 25 to life ;-)

 

[spring_mountain_high]

your kid throws snowball at car...idiot driver panics and locks up, hits tree...then that idiot or their family owns your home and your kid possibly gets locked up...go for it!

i think back at a lot of the dumb $hit i did as a kid and then think about how lucky i am

 

[MommaBear]

And we wonder why kids prefer to just sit in front of TVs playing video games.

 

[billski]

***Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday's blizzard....[They] were then apprehended and booked into jail for throwing missiles at occupied vehicles, a felony.***
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0209101snow1.html

Who hasn't thrown snowballs at passing cars? :blink:

Is there a connection here between the story and your legalskier same ?

 

[legalskier]

I like to keep an eye on these sorts of things.