Throwing Missile at Occupied Vehicle: South Sixth Street and Truman Road, June 10, a woman reported that a suspect opened the rear emergency door of a bus and threw an egg.
ref: From a VA blotter
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Also keep in mind that the charge I linked to specified "W/O (without) MALICE". Tailor made for an egg incident.
Actually I thought it was common knowledge an egg can be considered a missile. Along with a snowball. Even non-packed!
Imagine for a minute this teen threw an egg at a car carrying a mom and two kids. As the egg splatters against the windshield, the startled mom swerves into a bridge abutment, killing herself and her two kids.
The egg was no more deadly when it hit the vehicle than when it was pulled out of the carton yet it resulted in the deaths of three people.
I'm not justifying what the guy did, just pointing out that the kids could have been charged with a felony too.
And so I just noticed that PAR35 said in a few sentences what took me a half a page ;)
A helpful hint for drivers out there. When a foreign object hits your windshield, do not swerve into bridge abutments or any other immovable object. If the road ahead of you was clear the second before the egg hit your windshield, it is quite probably clear in the half second it takes to say, "Whoa! What was that!".
In any case, shooting the kid who threw the egg is probably the wrong response.