West Virginia Man charged with Assault/battery for passing gas

[CougarKing]

Posted for comedic value.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- As if getting a DUI wasn’t enough, a man arrested for driving under the influence got in a lot more trouble at the police station.

Police stopped Jose Cruz on Route 60 in South Charleston Monday night for driving with his headlights off.

Then, he failed sobriety tests and was arrested.

When police were trying to get fingerprints, police say Cruz moved closer to the officer and passed gas on him. The investigating officer remarked in the criminal complaint that the odor was very strong.

Cruz is now charged with battery on a police officer, as well as DUI and obstruction.

 

[BernDawg]

Well if that's the case then some of the troops around here should get life!  ;D

(Myself included)

 

[Cloud Cover]

Well if that's the case then some of the troops around here should get life!  ;D

(Myself included)

maybe a sentence of rife imprisonment?

 

[BernDawg]

Of course I was speaking in the vernacular. 

 

[1feral1]

Then I too am a lifer, as I often clear the office out here, and even get blamed for it when its not me, ha!

Seriously, a criminal record for a fart is outragous, and the judge should throw the charge out of court when/if it goes that far. It is a waste of resources well beyond a joke. However if he spat on him, or did some other body fluid 'assault' then fair enough, but for a simple beer fart, well thats plain stupidity.


OWDU 

 

[Hot Lips]

Well as a nurse I can only imagine how many charges I would have had laid over my career... :rofl: (wishing there was a gas mask smiley...)

A little over the top for sure IMO...

HL

 

[PMedMoe]

(wishing there was a gas mask smiley...)

HL

Here ya go!!

 

[WrenchBender]

Well it appears some sanity is coming through....
"The Kanawha County prosecutor's office requested that the charge be dropped against 34-year-old Jose Cruz."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hs2TwujTDL2W4xIvPx90cXm61n4QD93DVSGO0

WrenchBender

 

[CougarKing]

Here we go again.

NOVEMBER 21--A 12-year-old Florida student was arrested earlier this month after he "deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class," according to police. The child, who was also accused of shutting off the computers of classmates at Stuart's Spectrum Jr./Sr. High School, was busted November 4 for disruption of a school function. A Martin County Sheriff's Office report, a copy of which you'll find below, notes that the 4' 11" offender admitted that he "continually disrupted his classroom environment by breaking wind and shutting off several computers." The boy, whose name was redacted from the police report released today, was turned over to his mother following the arrest.

Source:  "http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1121083gas1.html" 

 

[PMedMoe]

I'm thinking in this case, the actual disruption was shutting off the computers.  Seriously, can people "break wind" deliberately?  :

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Yes they can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofn8-3SWd8M

 

[PMedMoe]

Yes they can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofn8-3SWd8M

Thanks, it was a rhetorical question. 

 

[Reccesoldier]

You have got to be _ _ _ _ _ _ _ me.

 

[Marshall]

I believe they should make beans and such an illegal substance then.

 

[aesop081]

I believe they should make beans and such an illegal substance then.

How about a bean registry ?

;D

 

[1feral1]

Get him off the red cordial (AKA cool-aid), ha!

OWDU

 

[bwatch]

Here we go again.

I pass gas in Church if I don't like the preaching.  I also did it on a Tube in London, people couldn't wait to get out

 

[JesseWZ]

How about a bean registry ?

;D

Don't even joke about something like that...
The NDP are monitoring these means.