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 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.
"The couple, identified only as 'Pat' and 'Chris'...."
And here I thought poin-ted sticks would have been the bigger concern.
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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I think the gays would have loved pointed sticks.
Do they provide Fruit Cocktail Credits? How about #10 can? (That would do some real damage)
That's a "shim".
Come on now!~ This is a case of apples and oranges!
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.
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.
"WILL SHE HAVE TO GO TO REHAB?"
Yes, she's obviously bananas.
> 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".
hate crime = special rights and protections under law (where all are equal).
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.
So, gerbils would have been a gift?
LOLOL
OMG! What is that?
Lemme guess, Chris and Pat right?
Pies are fruit food, not fruits.
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