Boy charged with felony for throwing snowball at cop

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22 Feb 2014, 3:32 pm

Of course, I'm thinking, Even if the boy did do it and it did hit the cop's arm, then why on God's green earth does this earn him a felony charge?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/c ... -1.1621756

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22 Feb 2014, 3:40 pm

If those other kids had had charges against them dropped for the same offense of throwing snow balls, and even sued the city successfully, then the charge against this kid isn't going to stick, either.

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22 Feb 2014, 3:46 pm

The word snowball can have a range of meanings. I notice it went from snowball to "chunk of ice" very early on in the article.

As far as the kid not doing it, kids lie. I found a draft of a letter in my own stuff a few years ago, one I'd been forced to write because my punishment for throwing a snowball at a teacher was to write an apology letter. I hid fully behind the fact that the teacher never saw me throw it, when in actual fact I was fully guilty.

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22 Feb 2014, 4:07 pm

This is what it's coming to.
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22 Feb 2014, 4:16 pm

Caleban wrote:

Cops also lie....meh even if he did do it I think a felony is a little ridiculous.

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22 Feb 2014, 5:09 pm

At least the cop didn't shoot him.

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22 Feb 2014, 10:58 pm

beneficii wrote:

Depends if there was a hidden projectile, like a rock, packed in the snowball. I'va had plenty of those thrown at me when I was younger.

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24 Feb 2014, 5:17 pm

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beneficii wrote:

Depends if there was a hidden projectile, like a rock, packed in the snowball. I'va had plenty of those thrown at me when I was younger.

The article probably would have mentioned if there was a rock in the snow ball.
We used to enhance our snowballs with rocks, too. :twisted:

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24 Feb 2014, 6:14 pm

Raptor wrote:

Meistersinger wrote:

beneficii wrote:

Depends if there was a hidden projectile, like a rock, packed in the snowball. I'va had plenty of those thrown at me when I was younger.

The article probably would have mentioned if there was a rock in the snow ball.
We used to enhance our snowballs with rocks, too. :twisted:

True, but considering that this was published in the Daily News (which, with the Post, are the modern practitioners of yellow journalism), tends to leave me suspect.

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07 Mar 2014, 12:11 am

Cops tend to think that they're gods. Thats what I've come to realize after dealing with them numerous times during my youth.

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