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To: Mrs. Don-o

Battery? Poking is battery?


20 posted on 06/19/2013 11:44:31 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121
Yes. In law: "battery: an intentional unpermitted act causing harmful or offensive contact with the "person" of another."

Approach a person in an aggressive manner without even touching them, is assault.

Unwanted intentional touching is battery.

23 posted on 06/19/2013 11:50:47 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (When I grow up, I'm gonna settle down, chew honeycomb & drive a tractor, grow things in the ground.)
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To: nikos1121

A harmful or offensive touching of one by another. Yep, battery.

But it’s not a crime for her to be a moron.
I just got back from WallyWorld. Some idjit had his cart parked north-south in an east-west lane, and he was blocking the rest of the aisle.
I said “Excuse me!” while thinking, “Why am I asking this guy to excuse me?”
But he said, “I’m sorry,” and we both moved on. Grownups aren’t supposed to hit one another. Not a comment on your question, but I was having a bad day and thought about pushing it out of the way with my cart as he held it.
Thought better of it. People like us may be holding society together.
But can we hold?


28 posted on 06/19/2013 12:28:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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