Posted on 02/09/2010 3:37:06 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
FEBRUARY 9--Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday's blizzard. Charles Gill and Ryan Knight, both 21, were nabbed by cops in Harrisonburg, where they attend James Madison University. According to police, the pair first targeted a city plow last Saturday afternoon. The driver responded by calling cops to report the frosty fusillade. When police responded to the scene in a bid to identify the assailants, their unmarked vehicle also came under an icy assault, according to a Harrisonburg Police Department press release. Gill and Knight, a guard on JMU's basketball team, were then apprehended and booked into jail for throwing missiles at occupied vehicles, a felony. Gill (top) and Knight are pictured below in Rockingham County Sheriff's Office mug shots. If convicted of the felonious snowball tossing, the men each face between one and five years in prison, and a maximum $2,500 fine.
The definition of a felony is getting lower and lower these days.
Amen. And the sad part is this probably isn’t being done just to scare them into not being so stupid in the future. Just like teachers who call the police when a 10 year old slaps another student, our government workers actually think that these are high crimes that should be prosecuted to the fullest.
Is the evidence in a cooler?
So which was it, snowballs or missiles? :)
Were they mirandized?
Yet a child rapist can get off on probation? I will be surprised if this isn’t reduced to a misdemeanor.
So is the threshold for the use of force.
Cops tazing folks for what amounts to verbal resistance. Others using deadly force on another case where a guy was only accused of misdemeanors and ran from the cops. Of course when they caught him, he resisted and was shot...
Society is slowly dying, just like the frog in the pot.
I always thought I was an upstanding, law abiding citizen. Now I found out that my childhood was filled with felonious activities for throwing snowballs at cars.
I won’t be seeing you guys for awhile. I’m turning myself in to face the punishment......../s
Five bucks says snowballs will soon be considered weapons and banned within 500 yards of a school.
Just a smidge of a suspicion alcohol may have been involved.
Geez, that's not a felony.
It’s GOOD to live in a police state...
Clearly, the givernment must step in and institute a 7-day waiting period for all potential snowball users. Background checks and 4 pieces of ID, too.
Pretty soon, it will be a "felony" to post stuff like you just posted...
Felonies, huh?
Admittedly they shouldn’t have been throwing snowballs... but FELONIES?
One day people are going to get tired of this bulls*@!.
Cruel and unusual.
People make a blanket statement that felons should not be allowed to own guns. Does it really makes sense that a college kid who got wild and snowballed a snowplow (stupid, for sure) should now lose his right to self-defense?
There are a lot of stupid felonies. Many need to be downgraded or if remaining as felonies, the firearms and voting rights should not be infringed upon.
Just stupid. Both the law and the kid.
“The definition of a felony is getting lower and lower these days.”
It hasn’t changed in Virginia. I got hauled to the police station for throwing a snowball at a car 40+ years ago. Even then it was a felony to throw an object at a moving vehicle.
Back door gun control
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