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

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

[Joe 6-pack]

"The couple, identified only as 'Pat' and 'Chris'...."

[SengirV]

And here I thought poin-ted sticks would have been the bigger concern.

[tired1]

Hi,

Look at the current HIPPA standards for hospital admittance:

1) male
2)female
3)other

I thought that it was a joke when I first took a course in that area of coding.

reagrds,
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[dfwgator]

I think the gays would have loved pointed sticks.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Do they provide Fruit Cocktail Credits? How about #10 can? (That would do some real damage)

[headstamp]

That's a "shim".

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Come on now!~ This is a case of apples and oranges!

[LtdGovt]

Keep your trashy fantasies off this website, please. Children might read this, and they'll not enjoy reading such graphic descriptions as much as you might.

[Will_Zurmacht]

Something odd has happened to Freerepublic...

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 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.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"WILL SHE HAVE TO GO TO REHAB?"
Yes, she's obviously bananas.

[LtdGovt]

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".

Yeah, or the Democratic party would not be viable.

[voltaires_zit]

> Isn't hate and hate speech protected by the First
> Amendment?

Pretty sure throwing objects from a moving vehicle isn't and comes somewhere under the more serious categories of "assault".

[Red6]

hate crime = special rights and protections under law (where all are equal).

[Sender]

The gender of the couple was not immediately known.

Gender can be determined by many methods, but are we talking physical gender, emotional gender or legal gender? It's not a simple X or Y thing in San Fran.

[gathersnomoss]

So, gerbils would have been a gift?

[cinives]

LOLOL

[Red6]

OMG! What is that?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

"The gender of the couple was not immediately known.",/i>

Lemme guess, Chris and Pat right?

[cinives]

Pies are fruit food, not fruits.