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[Hostile]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Gainesville father has been arrested for hitting his daughter with a pizza slice.

The 38-year-old man was arrested early Friday on a charge of child abuse without great harm, a third-degree felony. The man's name was being withheld to protect the identity of the victim.

Deputy Nick Vickers says the man used racist and sexist terms when he asked his daughter to turn off her computer, and she fired back with some crude language of her own.

Vickers says the father "intentionally threw a slice of pizza at the victim, striking her in the back of the neck, against her will."

The girl, whose age was not available, called 911 and her father was arrested.

Commentary from Hostile:

Where do I begin...?

So the man is charged with a third degree felony. Felony is a massive charge in the US (You're not even allowed to vote if you have a felony). Let us closely examine the wordage used by the arresting Deputy and see if there is some nonsense there.

intentionally threw a slice of pizza

Is it possible to "unintentionally" throw a slice of pizza? Maybe if I trip and have a plate of pizza in my hands, maybe it might unintentionally be thrown at you. Silly really.

What if it was a piece of celery or a carrot. Does the law dictate which piece of food item is allowed to be thrown and which aren't? Why is that limited to food? Say I throw a piece of crumpled paper? Is it still a felony?

striking her in the back of the neck

To strike someone with a slice of pizza, one would have to engage the girl in mortal combat and physically strike the girl in the back of the neck. You can't throw and strike with the same piece of pizza, at the same time, unless you are Jackie Chan. Even then I doubt the slice of pizza would have survived the throw, let alone the hand/slice of pizza to the neck strike.

Why is it noted in the back of the neck? If it happened to the front of the neck would it be a second degree felony? What happens if it "struck" her on the side of the neck? Would it be a second and a half degree felony?

against her will.

Is anyone a willing recipient of being the target of a flying piece of pizza? Why include such powerful language? To make it actually sound like a crime? "I smite thee with my valiant slice of pizza"

Is America becoming an idiot? What police officer would actually arrest an individual for that? What prosecutor would survive a case involving this? What judge would not throw it out?

I was curious when I read the original article thinking maybe he threw a whole pizza at her, but a slice? Did she suffer 2nd degree burns from the sauce? What if the slice of pizza came from a pizza from the refrigerator? Who determines the outcome of such laws and law enforcement?

Is it possible that idiocracy is a self fulfilling prophecy?

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[some_weirdGuy]

thats just so stupid

i recon i can picture it:
dad:"come on its dinner time, get off the computer"
daughter: *doesn't get off*
dad: "i told you to get off that damn computer! i've called you five times! you're going to eat your pizza cold and your banned from the computer for a week!" *holding plate with pizza slice on it*
daughter: "fuck you i'm not getting off, i don't even want pizza"
Dad: *angrily throws pizza slice at little bitch*
daughter: "i'm a little spastic and i'm gonna call the cops on you"
dad: "like the cops are retarded enough to do anything about it..."
*couple of minutes later*
cops: "we hear you've been throwing pizza at your bitch of a daughter. we'd like to ask if you have a lisense of mozzarella-based weaponry?
dad: "...wha...?"
cops: "you're gonna have to come with us" *arrests dad*

((ok, so thats not exactly how it would have happened, but the idiocy of the situation makes a serious recount of what probably pointless))

All i can say is... what is the world coming to when a father can't discipline his own daughter with Italian cuisine, without the laws interference?

[Florisz]

Kinda stupid yes...And waste of a good slice of pizza... *sigh*

[Vortigern]

I really rather hope he gets off without being charged and his daughter gets a hearty slap. She sounds like she deserves it.

[Beowulf]

I really rather hope he gets off without being charged and his daughter gets a hearty slap. She sounds like she deserves it.

I love your common sense. Goddamn. I can't say it any better than this.

Edited by Beowulf, 20 August 2009 - 06:14 PM.

[Spectre]

"intentionally threw a slice of pizza at the victim, striking her in the back of the neck, against her will."

From this point on I battled myself on whether to laugh until I ran out of breath, or hide my face in shame.

somewhere out there, a murder victim is rolling in their grave.

[Bart]

We have 2.2 million people in prison and prisons have become for profit institutions run by corporations.

Have you been watching Death Race a little too often?

[DIGI_Byte]

We have 2.2 million people in prison and prisons have become for profit institutions run by corporations.

Have you been watching Death Race a little too often?

I have !

Edited by DIGI_Byte, 08 October 2009 - 01:49 PM.

[partyzanPaulZy]

On Topic:
I can understand why child cannot be hit on head from back, but mild cheek-slaps or mild spanking should be OK
although some governments say no (even against public opinion), that they want rude, vulgar, ill-mannered lazy brats who won't do almost nothing more than smoke weed and listen to hip hop...
What I've heard from girls which were in England as Au Pair many children there are rude and ill-mannered,
these Au Pairs had to clean mess like mouldy dump from paper, apple cores,...
or dirty clothes across whole floor. 6 years old child which don't sh** on toilet should be spanked and pulled to toilet...

When you ask people, they can tell you what they were doing as children, but few slaps or spanking told them more
than 2 hour talks.

Hitting girl with pizza isn't normal , but I'm not sure it's really child abuse.

IMHO, mild corporal punishments (for bad behaviour) should be reintroduce in schools although it was banned in 1960's.
Problem is that teachers (mostly women) are afraid to do anything to stop rude children, they can be fired or even incriminated.
This is like with police, they have less and less money for more and more work, they can be fired or even incriminated for something they haven't done (policemen can be also hurt, crippled or even killed).

PS: Laws forbidding any kinds of physical punisments don't stop those who want abuse their children...

[Tom]

This sort of shit happens all the time. Hear about it all the time.

[True Lord of Chaos]

thats just so stupid

i recon i can picture it:
dad:"come on its dinner time, get off the computer"
daughter: *doesn't get off*
dad: "i told you to get off that damn computer! i've called you five times! you're going to eat your pizza cold and your banned from the computer for a week!" *holding plate with pizza slice on it*
daughter: "fuck you i'm not getting off, i don't even want pizza"
Dad: *angrily throws pizza slice at little bitch*
daughter: "i'm a little spastic and i'm gonna call the cops on you"
dad: "like the cops are retarded enough to do anything about it..."
*couple of minutes later*
cops: "we hear you've been throwing pizza at your bitch of a daughter. we'd like to ask if you have a lisense of mozzarella-based weaponry?
dad: "...wha...?"
cops: "you're gonna have to come with us" *arrests dad*

((ok, so thats not exactly how it would have happened, but the idiocy of the situation makes a serious recount of what probably pointless))

All i can say is... what is the world coming to when a father can't discipline his own daughter with Italian cuisine, without the laws interference?

I bet that's what happened.

[Pasidon]

Neh... I'm sure there's something funny about slapping a skank in the face with a pizza.