Don't report getting squirted by a kid, go to jail.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-weizner061201.shtml The first person charged under CCAA, Hector Flores, was a deliveryman for NotFauna.com. Two years ago, while carrying a heavy vase of flowers into the home of a paraplegic customer, he was squirted by one of the customer's kids with a water pistol. The customer apologized and Flores forgot about the matter, but subsequently, when the same child squirted a pizza-delivery man, who reported the incident, the ensuing investigation uncovered the previous assault on Flores. Flores was charged with child abuse for having failed to report the episode, which might have prevented the attack on the pizza deliverer. Convicted and sentenced to two years in a facility for child molesters, Flores appealed, arguing that the law referred only to actual firearms, not to purple water pistols. The court ruled that although the language of the statute read "firearms" and not "actual firearms," the prosecution had nevertheless acted reasonably in extending the state's school policy of zero tolerance to the home. After his release, Flores will be required to register as a child abuser wherever he lives while serving his 19 years' probation. The child will be returned to his family later this year when his parents have completed the state's Violence Begins in the Home crime-prevention program.
On 20 Jun 2001, at 8:17, Victoria Barracks wrote:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-weizner061201.shtml
The first person charged under CCAA, Hector Flores, was a deliveryman for NotFauna.com.
Umm, you're aware that this article was satire, right? George
I went to that link and read the entire article and I have some real doubts to its accuracy.... Jon Beets Pacer Communications ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victoria Barracks" <vb@ears.au> To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Don't report getting squirted by a kid, go to jail.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-weizner061201.shtml
The first person charged under CCAA, Hector Flores, was a deliveryman for NotFauna.com. Two years ago, while carrying a heavy vase of flowers into the home of a paraplegic customer, he was squirted by one of the customer's kids with a water pistol. The customer apologized and Flores forgot about the matter, but subsequently, when the same child squirted a pizza-delivery man, who reported the incident, the ensuing investigation uncovered the previous assault on Flores. Flores was charged with child abuse for having failed to report the episode, which might have prevented the attack on the pizza deliverer. Convicted and sentenced to two years in a facility for child molesters, Flores appealed, arguing that the law referred only to actual firearms, not to purple water pistols. The court ruled that although the language of the statute read "firearms" and not "actual firearms," the prosecution had nevertheless acted reasonably in extending the state's school policy of zero tolerance to the home.
After his release, Flores will be required to register as a child abuser wherever he lives while serving his 19 years' probation. The child will be returned to his family later this year when his parents have completed the state's Violence Begins in the Home crime-prevention program.
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Victoria Barracks wrote:
The first person charged under CCAA, Hector Flores, was a deliveryman for NotFauna.com. Two years ago,
Flores. Fauna.. Satire. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
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