Antismoker Allegedly Punches Man Outside Tavern

Madistan.com ^ | January 16, 2009 | Staff Writer

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Casey Arneson may not get the award for Most Righteous Nonsmoker of the Year, but he should probably be a nominee -- depending how you feel about the continuing war between smokers and nonsmokers.

Arneson, 22, won the battle outside of the Depot tavern, at 627 W. Main St., in the early morning hours of Dec. 27, but he may have lost his personal war when he was charged Friday with battery for punching a smoker.

[Eaker]

Well, until you have smoke blown in your face.

Real tough guy, huh?

If you get to close to me while I am smoking and smoke gets in your face tough shit.

[nd2bfree]

I agree the reporter is a biased. the reporter also states the anti-smoker won the fight. its pretty obvious that the anti threw a “sucker punch”. Not much of a chance for self defense. The left always pushes for hate crime prosecutions unless of course it is something that is not their agenda. This would seem to qualify as some sort of hate crime just not according to the left.

[GreyMountainReagan]

“Well, until you have smoke blown in your face.”

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Oh, you poor, poor, soul.

Got a little smoke in you eyes? And on your anniversary too?

How about the animating contest of freedom, huh? How about let people be free? Ever thought of that?

Honest question. Has anyone ever blown smoke in your face? Ever?

[berdie]

Is it time to invest in “tobacco” stocks again?

[Hot Tabasco]

Arneson, the criminal complaint against him says, told another female smoker, “You really shouldn’t be smoking.”

I'm not faulting Reyes in the least but certain words put me on full alert. When that happens I just shut up and develope an attitude.......

[AZ .44 MAG]

I quit smoking about ten years ago because it was starting to make me feel bad and the cost (due mostly to taxes). I still like the smell and don’t begrudge anyone smoking.

I think there’s a huge overreaction to smokers and people need to back off and let smokers smoke where it’s not prohibited. And just to be clear; it should be the property owner’s choice to allow smoking on private property. Unless TheMom objects, of course.

[happydogdesign]

Red Ingle - Cigareets & Whuskey...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqk3osxS4wQ

[Gator113]

New hate crime??

;>)

[Hulka]

Not in mine. . .deliberatly, but I tell ‘ya, it is getting tiresome to walk through the gauntlet of smoke from the dozen or so smokers huddled outside the entrance to the office building where I work. Warm days, not so bad as they walk around. It is the cold days where they cluster by the door that makes it a smelly activity just to get to work.

[TigersEye]

What does it take to walk by them? About ten seconds?

[GreyMountainReagan]

“getting tiresome to walk through the gauntlet of smoke from the dozen or so smokers huddled outside the entrance to the office building where I work...”

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Sometimes freedom is tiresome.

Speech, religion, guns ‘n ammo an all that, what a hassle. Perhaps all that freedom is just not worth it. Let’s do awayt with it all.

BTW. I never have smoked. Just because I don’t do it though doesn’t mean I think it should be outlawed.

[Hulka]

You missed the point of my post: It is tiresome, why they won’t respect other’s rights and be civil and polite and not crowd the door? I suspect it is the me-me-me-my-right-to-be-smelly-and-inflict-smoke-on-others trumps all other rights.

So, one day last year, April, I think, I did give $5.00 to a guy that pan-handles outside the Metro stop and had him stand with the smokers during the noon rush to smoke. A real smelly guy and it was an absolute hoot to watch the smokers react.

Cheap entertainment for about 10-minutes. Then back to work.

Say. . . .I think I’ll do it again. . .should be fun.

[Hulka]

Don’t follow your post at all.

Truly, it makes no sense. Seriously.

Smoking stacked up against consitutionally protected actual rights. . .sorry, don’t follow that train of thought.

Cheers.

[Grizzled Bear]

Did you attend the “Curtis Lemay School of Diplomacy?”

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Those people weren’t there outside the door until the rabid smoker-hating Nazis DROVE/FORCED them there. Then they bitch about that. Never enough.

[richardtavor]

Especially after midnight. He was prone to malfeasance.

[GreyMountainReagan]

Obviously you don’t follow the post. Hence the apparent disagreement.

How about your thoughts on this one: Driving a car is not constitutionally protected. Should it be taxed to oblivion since it offends some people?

Sure that is a more extreme example but if we don’t stick together, we will hang separately.

[muawiyah]

It's of a piece with the old standard in the South where a black on the sidewalk would have to give way to any passing white.

Some people liked that standard, and their ideological heirs are applying it to smokers.

Once they get rid of the smokers, they'll find some other reason to bully people.

[abner]

You missed the point of my post: It is tiresome, why they won’t respect other’s rights and be civil and polite and not crowd the door? I suspect it is the me-me-me-my-right-to-be-smelly-and-inflict-smoke-on-others trumps all other rights.

Nope. It has nothing to do with what you said. It has to do with people that still smoke and have been made to smoke outside in the cold because they have been legislated to where they are to smoke. Right, wrong, that is the issue. Not the smokers wanting to make you smell their smoke for 10 or 20 seconds while you are walking into work. Walk around them. Evil smokers don't like the cold any more than you do. So they are crowding the door, which becomes farther and farther from the entrance that they are normally welcome to each and every day as non-smokers become more and more militant. Not that smokers want to be that way, it has just become more legislatively more popular.

[GOP_Lady]

Childish.