Woman accused of tossing fruit at gays (charged with hate crime)

San Francisco Examiner ^ | 03/06/07 | Brian Foley

[presidio9]

A Pacifica woman was arrested Sunday on suspicion of a hate crime for allegedly throwing fruit and vegetables at a gay couple while riding in a van, police said Monday.

Tiffany Adler, 20, who works at a grocery store, was a passenger in a van in Pacifica on Sunday when she spotted a gay couple who frequent the store, according to police.

As the van drove by around 7:50 p.m. on the 500 block of Esplanade Drive, she allegedly rolled down the window and threw apples and vegetables at them, police said. Later, the van turned around and approached the couple again as she allegedly yelled the word “faggot” at them.

The gender of the couple was not immediately known.

At least some of what was thrown appears to have hit the couple, according to the police report.

Adler, the only person arrested, was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor hate crime and misdemeanor battery and released.

“Her statement was that she wasn’t aware that they were gay,” police Sgt. Jim Tasa said. “She thought they were people that she had a prior conflict with.”

A court date has been set for April 13.

[Gator113]

All I know for certain is that...... I am a lesbian trapped in a males body.

Oh the conflict, oh the mental anguish. We need to unite, it's just not fair.

[popdonnelly]

Faggot's not an insult to gays. Just ask Ann Coulter.

[presidio9]

ping

[toddlintown]

Was it a banana?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Sorry! But I've been squeezed dry! You can't get blood from a turnip.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Thread's dead. Lettuce move on to a new topic.

[JB in Whitefish]

"Funny how throwing fruit and cursing out someone is enough to get you arrested for a "hate crime", but cursing out your own country, committing blatant treason, supplying the enemy with aid on a regular basis is "freedom of speech"."

right.

I'm wondering if she'd have gotten a MEDAL had she first wrapped the fruit in an American Flag, set ablaze...???

If she had yelled, "Death to all military personnel!" at the same time it wouldn't have even made the news....

[drpix]

>"WILL SHE HAVE TO GO TO REHAB?"<

They'll teach her not to throw fruit and yell "faggot!"

Next time, throw faggots and call them "fruits."

[GSWarrior]

Sounds like you and Elk Grove Dan have had uh..some fun times together.

[Right Cal Gal]

That's the first thing I thought of!

"It was a drive-by fruiting!"

(channelling Mrs. Doubtfire).

[Tamar1973]

I loved Mrs. Doubtfire. LOL!

[presidio9]

Just trying to help a newbie out. The current culture demands that we applaud all faggots for their buttsex or be labled intolerant. Failure to celebrate perversity is what ended up keeping Rick Santorum out of this presidential race.

[TYVets]

What really kills me is the "Male Lesbian" category. That one slays me!

That is a new term for me. FR a great place to increase your vocabulary.

That has to be a Politically Correct term!

[presidio9]

What really kills me is the "Male Lesbian" category. That one slays me!

[NativeSon]

I swear, half the folks on this board really make me scratch my head. I think the concept of "hate crimes" is a lil pathetic, but so is rooting on the knuckledraggers who throw fruit out of vans.

I know what ya' mean; some people/group can be criticized, harassed, assaulted and other can't.

but I believe that at the end of the day, most Freepers stand for what is Right

[Old Professer]

Coconuts?

[HKMk23]

A "SHIM"!

ROFLMBO!!

HAA-hAA-HA-ha-HA-HAaaaa...

[fr_freak]

Imagine the outrage from this story if one cuts the "gay" from the story and substitutes "conservative". The outrage would spill out....but throwing food at the queers, hell, that's just good old fun "conservatism".

I think you're wrong. How many here would involve the police if someone drove by calling them names and throwing some fruit? Probably not many. Certainly not many here would pursue charges of a hate crime if the catcalls were "Hey you ****ing evil conservatives!" That is why having someone prosecuted with a hate crime for what is essentially a juvenile act is being ridiculed so much, not to mention that if the fruit-throwers were attacking conservatives, or Christians, or some other such thing, not only would this not be a hate crime, but the police probably wouldn't even bother to pursue the crime, and certainly the media would not report it.

Unless, of course, they were hurling watermelons. Or pumpkins.

[devolve]