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(17,139 posts) Thu Feb 9, 2012, 06:47 AM Feb 2012

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nobody ever throw a snowball ever again eShirl Feb 2012 #1

People have been convicted of throwing deadly missiles at cars, which were snowballs jberryhill Feb 2012 #22

I can't believe people think thrown snowballs deserve prison time Occulus Feb 2012 #29

So, if you hit someone's windshield with a snowball.. jberryhill Feb 2012 #32

Thanks to the new NDAA and the Government's ability to define things. Confetti would be consider Justice wanted Feb 2012 #2

Oh, that's not a problem! stillwaiting Feb 2012 #7

Your right. Perfectly same to call something that when it is thrown FLOATS and not slams into Justice wanted Feb 2012 #9

Better reconsider throwing that rice at your next wedding... hlthe2b Feb 2012 #3

Hmmmm.... call me crazy soc7 Feb 2012 #4

I didn't say he shouldn't be punished. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #5

"faces" six months. Broderick Feb 2012 #6

Glitter being equated with a missile won't stand up to court scrutiny. no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #8

Try reading the statute and a dictionary jberryhill Feb 2012 #13

On its face, the definition may in fact be applicable, but no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #15

It is ancient, and from common law battery jberryhill Feb 2012 #18

A missile is not synonymous with an object. The purpose of the object makes it a missile. no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #24

A burrito is a "deadly missile" jberryhill Feb 2012 #25

Understood and appreciated. no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #27

One consents to the throwing of confetti at parties and rice at weddings jberryhill Feb 2012 #28

"education is limited"???? So right to the personal insults. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #16

Throwing things at people is juvenile jberryhill Feb 2012 #17

Hope you enjoy the low road! Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #19

Oooohhh... I have "fellow travelers" jberryhill Feb 2012 #23

Never said that. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #26

You have a right to think that, and that's OK by me... Capitalocracy Feb 2012 #20

Just popped into my head: IF we had this happening when Bush was President...I wonder what they Justice wanted Feb 2012 #10

The guy who threw the shoe got three years jberryhill Feb 2012 #14

In an Iraqi prison! Hawkowl Feb 2012 #31

You understand that the point of "civil disobedience" is to get arrested, right? jberryhill Feb 2012 #33

Sort of... Hawkowl Feb 2012 #34

Romney laughed if off afterward. Obviously, this was a real act of terror. n/t Ian David Feb 2012 #11

I think his punishment should be to face a firing squad... of GLITTER! n/t Ian David Feb 2012 #12

He and Romney should settle it mano a mano in the Glitterdome. Capitalocracy Feb 2012 #21

Next time use a real missile fired from a UAV gratuitous Feb 2012 #30

"If a commoner called the cops on me for throwing glitter at them, the pigs would laugh Jon Ace Feb 2012 #35