[RedMonqey]

Forming a posse to hold down a person and cut their hair, is not a prank, it is a full blown assault.

So in that same vein would you also classify "Indian burns", "purple urples", "red bellys" and "wet willies" to name a few, as "assaults"?

If so, then most of my elementary school classes would be charged with assault and battery.(including myself in both roles as "victim" and "assailant")

And forget about games like dodgeball where the game itself is organized mob assault.

Seems ridiculous but school districts have forbidden traditional schoolyard games like tag, dodgeball as well as playground equipment because they were seen as hazardous"

What an utterly dull and lifeless childhood children would have under these guidelines...

I can imagine what fathers here would think if their son came home from school having been attacked in this manner.

Evidently his family didn't see it as "assault" as his sister didn't know about it.

His father probably didn't like it and maybe asked for the boys to reprimanded but he (evidently) didn't demand the offenders to be hauled off to court.

And I have come home from real fights with black eye and scraps and neither side was charged with "assault". Just detention. But those were times when people didn't hyperventilate over such things and kept it in perspective.

p.s. It has come out that the accuser didn't even witness the event.

[ansel12]

Give a woman an Indian burn or participate in a voluntary game of dodge ball, or overcome her enough to get her on the ground and cut off her hair by force, which one would you prefer trying to defend to a jury in a court room, as harmless, which one would you not want on your record?