Posted on 03/06/2007 2:30:10 PM PST by 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 wasnt 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.
All fruit should be banned. They are dangerous and can be a hazard to someone's health if used as ammunition. SAY NO TO FRUIT!
That's the thing. A crime is a crime regardless of the motivation. Generally there is some motivation for every crime, but regardless the crime is wrong. Should she be charged for throwing fruit at these people? Yes. Should she be charged for her underlying motivation? No, I don't think so. If hate crimes became more widespread, imagine how scary things could get. I mean say a person got in an argument and punched a homosexual or a minority, the homosexual or minority could claim that the motivation was due to sexual orientation or race when it was simply just due to a dispute. I think it could come to the point where peoples' free speech and even thoughts are serverly regulated for fear of being charged with a hate crime.
LOL!
Of course they should not have thrown fruit at the...couple. The salient fact is that only because the couple was gay, this becomes a hate crime. What if I drove by in a van and threw fruit at my boss? I might be fired but certainly this would not be a newsworthy event. But to do anything that might be construed as gay bashing...or Muslim bashing...or racist...then you must be martyred. If we are to have equality and justice here, then it is no worse to throw fruit at fruits than to throw fruit at bosses. It is the throwing of physical objects that is the offense. If someone has a bad opinion of homosexuals, then that is their opinion. Who cares. There are ignorant opinions everywhere. That is not a criminal offense. I dislike the concept of thought crimes.
Nice punch line. Too funny.
LOLOL, I love that! Really pretty!
Is "tetter" akin to "primp", snicker.
Thanks for the ping!
Really cute devolve. Hillary needs to be a bit more 'hippy', that once was Al Gore's body. LOL!
Dirty trickery!! I deleted my Carmine Miranda image awhile back, lolol.
LOL, good job!!
You can't make this stuff up : )
Thanks.
Maybe that's where the fruit came from.
LOL. Thanks for pinging me to it. I haven't done much posting in a number of days. I was working on my Profile page, trying to get the size of it down!!
Hell, she's probably a freeper.
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