Posted on 03/18/2005 3:45:19 AM PST by billorites
You lost me with that one.
Read the article.
In other words, you would find it acceptible for someone to violate your rights, tell you to shut up when you complain and assault you when you don't?
Let's just call it disciplining a child that is probably too big to spank.
And when this lady finds herself reporting to a parole officer and writing a check to settle the lawsuit, we will just call discipling a shrew who probably wishes she were just getting spanked.
TORONTO, Ontario (Reuters) -- A snowball fight is almost a rite of passage for students in Canada but Toronto schools are moving to strengthen a ban on the practice they say is violent and dangerous.
As the first big snowfall greeted Canada's most populous city this week, schools encouraged students to engage in kinder, gentler activities, such as building snow forts or riding sleds.
"We don't encourage people to throw things at other people - rocks, sticks or snow," Maureen Kaukinen, system superintendent for the Toronto District School Board, told Reuters Tuesday.
While snowball fights are expected to continue to rage off the schoolyard, Kaukinen said schools cannot condone acts of violence.
The school board, in keeping with a nonviolence code in the province of Ontario, plans to suspend students who injure others using snowballs.
Schools have had problems with snowballs in the past. In December, a child was mistakenly trapped in a giant snowball his friends were rolling in their school yard in nearby Niagara Falls. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was required to revive him.
Kaukinen said that to avoid such dangers students are reminded that snow should stay on the ground and not become an instrument of violence.
I'd be inclined to take it away from her and put it in a place where she wouldn't be likely to forget where it was.
Consider this, "Among the victims was a high school student who reportedly was an innocent bystander who just asked her to move her car.
I will wait to hear what her side of the story is before I cast judgement on her based on the word of the accuser(s). Keep in mind, because there are plenty of details left to be discovered (was the "innocent bystander" friends with the other kids?, how old and how big was the kid that got sprayed?, her side of the story, of course...etc.), I am basing my initial assesment of this story on experience, both as a kid and as a parent.
If I were to judge by the picture of him in this morning's Globe, I'd have to say he was a pretty beefy kid. The picture shows him wearing a "Gold's Gym" t-shirt while sitting on a Nautilus weight-lifting machine. Further, he claimed to be on his way to a job---a construction job.
Educated guess? This kid might not have been such an innocent bystander. He might not be telling the exact truth. He probably mouthed off like a spoiled brat. But he doesn't deserve to get pepper-sprayed for being a spoiled wise-ass brat.
You've basically nailed it...Everything in Massachusetts is either illegal or it is mandatory...
You're right, maybe not... from a legal standpoint. But, I'm sure, the next time, he will think twice about how he approaches an older woman, with a complaint. Lesson learned..
Completely. Like I wrote earlier, I'm from there, and I bet dollars to doughnuts I know the type of kid Cataldo is---probably a kid for whom entitlement & priviledge have been life-long givens. The starting price for a tear-down-and-build-on-the-lot in Andover is probably around $350-400,000.
And now he knows how stupid it is to be sarcastic with a crazy woman brandishing a tire iron and pepper spray. He owes this lady. An object lesson like that might save his life some day.
Massachusetts - where anything that can give you even a hint of self defense is illegal.
True. Given you description of him having his teeth kicked in would be more appropriate and leave a more lasting impression.
According to the law assault is saying something threatening. I guess you would have your wife wait until battery were committed upon her before she should respond. Of course this is Massachusetts where even battery isn't cause enough for self-defense.
Either way, this just goes to show that elderly women drivers can be a hazard even when not behind the wheel.
Yep. Had this been a 48-year-old dude instead of a 48-year-old woman, methinks the outcome would've been much different.
This is the thugocracy liberals have created there and Maria doesn't have a lisence to participate.
Sounds like he wrote it just for her, and for all you peer devils still in the grip of Old Man Winter.
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