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.

[SengirV]

There are plenty of other things on freerepublic to scratch your head at like bashing every possible GOP candidate such that Obama and Hillary look like reasonable options.

This is simply frustration over the misuse of "hate crimes" designations. IF you replace "gay" with "conservitive", you would not be hearing cries for the perps to be charged with a hate crime.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"Ouch!"
You're right! I must be outa my gourd! Todays work consisted of a long, fruitless search. for a problem in a new machine. I think we may have been sold a lemon!

[freeangel]

So many jokes here--so little time.

[NonValueAdded]

Mrs. Doubtfire redux? That one had a fruiting too.

[ElkGroveDan]

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.

Maybe you should keep your children away from discussions of homosexuals.

That's what they do. It's revolting, but necessary to point out in the face of all the "they are just like the rest of us" propaganda foisted on us all day, every day. It's filthy perversion despite the nice code words you'd like us to use.

I suggest you send your kids to Nick.com.

[philled]

Question:

Had the roles been reversed and the gay couple been tooling around in their Miata throwing rulers at the girl and her boyfriend, would they also have been charged with a hate crime? Or would it be your more garden variety assault / criminal mischief charge? Shouldn't a crime be the same crime regardless of the victim or perpetrator?

[don-o]

Passe’ The happening thing is throwing catfish.

[ElkGroveDan]

Please not before dinner. Dessert...fudge for everyone.

[MindBender26]

Throwing fwoots at fwoots?

Woo!

[Blogger]

The fruits tossed themselves. People don't splatter. Fruits splatter.

[MovementConservative]

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

Apparently not in the fascist city this woman is from. Only the acceptable state approved speech/thought will be tolerated. All others will be prosecuted.

[presidio9]

Keep your trashy fantasies off this website, please.

Dan's just doing his part to celebrate diversity. He should be commended for it. Incidently, faggots play in each other's feces every day, and they demand that we recognize that behavior.

[presidio9]

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.

No, your physical gender will not change just because you undergo cosmetic surgery on your genitals. Take all the estrogen you wish. I can assure you that you will never develop ovaries.

[Gay State Conservative]

Has the constitutionality of "hate crime" laws ever been challenged in the Federal courts? One would think that they're a violation of the "equal protection" clause (but I sure ain't no lawyer).

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"Resistance is fruitile!"

[presidio9]

A drive-by fruiting?

Mrs. Doubtfire referrence...

[T.Smith]

It is apparently that very behavior that led to the fruiting in the first place. It was a drive by fruiting!

[presidio9]

A drive-by fruiting?

Mrs. Doubtfire referrence...

[Xenalyte]

I beg to differ . . . DNA is the ONLY permissible evidence, since it's the only unchangeable factor.