This whole story seems a bit skippy so I think it'll be dismissed in a jiff(y).

A Washington man is facing an assault charge for allegedly smearing peanut butter on the forehead of a fellow student who is severely allergic to peanuts.

We have a neighbor who can go into Anaphylactic shock if he is too close to the scent of peanuts.

An assault charge sure seems warranted if he was aware of the allergy.

what, no jelly?

he ought to be shot, along with people with aids who spit on cops!

Nanc-
re: "he ought to be shot, along with people with aids who spit on cops!"

Is this a big problem on the planet you live on?

"Is this a big problem on the planet you live on?" - BET

I don't know, but I understand the problem's spreading.

Oohrah-
So, so you and Murphy have any stats on the growing problem of AIDS patients spitting on cops?

Or even one anecdotal, yet verifiable, example?

BET-
Your pun detection meter must be out of batteries.

spreading - peanut butter

BetelG If memory serves Me correctly there was one in Oklahoma that received a life sentence for spitting on a Cop. Not sure about the AIDS part thought.

Larry

Oohrah-
Oh. LOL. I guess I didn't get the softball Nanc pitched, LOL. She's a clever one.

Larry-
Faggots with AIDS are spitting on cops all over the place, Larry. It's a big problem.

not really, betelg - but if it were, i'd say they're just about the same type of m.o., having worked in law enforcement for the better part of my working career.

That's why I posted this story - for the comic relief and not as a serious law & order issue. Yes, it sucks for the plaintiff, but can't you just picture the Three Stooges having a food fight - all starting with one guy smearing a sandwich or pie in another's face?

Got the Sox/Angels on and not in a contentious mood. Look for more bad puns.

betelg - i didn't say "faggots" with aids who spit on people - why are you always trying to choose my words?

Nance-
"having worked in law enforcement for the better part of my working career.", how many cases of "AIDS" infected did you run across who were spitting on cops?

none. why do you assume only "faggots" get aids? a little paranoid, aren't you?

Nance-
Since you've worked in "law enforcement for the better part of [your] working career", maybe you can entertain us with an example or two of the new trend of "people with aids who spit on cops"

Nothin', Nanc?

first tell me why you believe "faggots" with aids are the ones who spit on cops.

Nanc-
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you wrote that, "he ought to be shot, along with people with aids who spit on cops!"

I wasn't aware that "people with aids who spit on cops!" was a big problem, or that it was such a problem that they should be shot. Your inability, as someone who has "worked in law enforcement for the better part of [your] working career", to supply a single example of this trend made me wonder about your ideological bullshit.

My bad.

People with AIDS who spit on cops?

The likelihood of contracting HIV via saliva-transmission is next-to-nil.

There was a CSI: Las Vegas episode where peanut butter was used by a member of a sequestered jury to bring about a mistrial so she could go home, but her plan went awry, resulting in the allergic juror dying. I never knew that a allergic reaction to peanuts could be topical, I thought you had to ingest it to have the reaction, but evidently that's not the case.

There was a LOCI with a woman using peanut dust to kill a person who had peanut allergies.

When I grew up in the 60's and 70s, I NEVER heard of a peanut allergy. Everyone ate PB&J.

"The end is near, the end is near....RAAAWWWWK!!"

not really, betelg - but if it were, i'd say they're just about the same type of m.o., having worked in law enforcement for the better part of my working career.

#11 | Posted by nanc at 2008-10-03 11:10 PM |

fingerprint gal at the mayberry jail isn't law enforcement, hon!

"The likelihood of contracting HIV via saliva-transmission is next-to-nil."

I would say unless you are a cop and the perp was resisting arrest and has a cut inside his mouth. then your chances are greatly increased.

I have handled workers' comp claims for many police and sheriff dept's as well as prisons and mental hosptials.
I have seen hundereds and hundreds cases of either HIV positive or Hep C positve people spitting, on, bleeding on, biting, pissing on, feces thowers etc, and not one claim ever converted to positive. Not one. By law we pay for testing etc for a year and then we can close the claim.
Should any of the police or nurses/Dr's had converted, WC would have covered him for life.

But it never happened.

So what'll get more jail time, farting on a cop or stuffing a pb&j sammie in a dude's face?

You can have my peanut butter when you can scrape it off of my cold dead hand.

Peanut butter doesnt kill people, people kill people.

So TRUTH, if peanut butter is outlawed, only outlaws will have peanut butter. Spread the word.

Incredibly stupid on this kids part.

Given the outcome, I wouldn't throw the kid in jail, but I would try him for assault with a sentence of 2 years community service working with an allergy organization.

Yes, all this is find and good but the problem plaqing mankind is this; was it crunchy or smooth?

crunchy = chunky

"he ought to be shot, along with people with aids who spit on cops!"

- Nanc

Is this a big problem on the planet you live on?

- Posted by BetelG

LOL! I bet nanc might get her info from watching the MSNBC cable channel on the weekends. That's all that cable channel shows on weekends -- prison and prison inmate stories.

Every weekend in the evening, without fail, it's always "live inside real prisons" stories which shows prisoners with aids spitting on prison guards, or prisoners tossing their feces at prison guards, or .... well, you get the picture. I've watched those stories a few times -- you learn a lot. Actually, way more than you ever want -- or need -- to know.

When I grew up in the 60's and 70s, I NEVER heard of a peanut allergy. Everyone ate PB&J.

Maybe kids were just embarrassed back then and were less likely to mention them to anyone. I grew up in the 70/80's and had a friend who had a peanut allergy.

I also knew many kids who wore glasses or retainers and took them off as soon as they got on the bus. That doesn't mean there weren't glasses or retainers back then.

On some issues (esp. disabilities, allergies, etc.) I think kids are more accepting than they were just a few decades ago.

Another fun allergy fact!

Many people who have allergies to peanut butter as kids lose that allergy when they get older.

Of course, who's going to voluntarily test that as an adult if they learned to retch at the smell of them as a kid?

As for the jackass who smeared the peanut butter in the kid's face, I would have to say that this is probably a culmination of many other humiliations and assaults he's committed over time. A useless bully retard who'll be even more useless when he gets out of jail. Maybe he'll get a cell mate who 'loves' him.