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A man from Garvin County, Oklahoma, is facing an assault and battery charge after he threw a cupcake out the car window, smack into another man’s face. It’s a misdemeanor charge, but still.
The Pauls Valley Democrat reports that the alleged assault took place in May this year, on a construction site near the town of Paoli. The assailant, 31-year-old Trevor Pearson, was traveling in a car with a female driver, when traffic came to a slow because the road narrowed down to just one lane.
Another car passed by the vehicle Pearson was in and the driver inside flipped off the female driver. Pearson reacted by throwing the cupcake he was holding out the window, hitting the man in the face.
The report notes that the victim wasn’t injured (no surprise here: this is a cupcake we’re talking about, after all), but he decided to press charges either way. So Pearson was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery, which carries a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
In the state of Oklahoma, you can accuse someone of assault without that person ever making physical contact with you. Assault is defined as an argument that escalates into the threat of violence, and throwing a cupcake does fit the bill. What if Pearson threw an ax next?
On a serious note, throwing stuff out the window of your car is illegal and potentially very dangerous. In June this year, one California driver threw an empty glass bottle out the window of their speeding SUV, hitting a 5-year-old girl walking on the side of the road in the head. The impact was so strong as to put the girl in hospital with serious injuries.
Granted, a cupcake thrown from a crawling car and a glass bottle hurled from a speeding vehicle is like apples and oranges, but there is a common denominator: they both qualify as assault.
Another car passed by the vehicle Pearson was in and the driver inside flipped off the female driver. Pearson reacted by throwing the cupcake he was holding out the window, hitting the man in the face.
The report notes that the victim wasn’t injured (no surprise here: this is a cupcake we’re talking about, after all), but he decided to press charges either way. So Pearson was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery, which carries a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
In the state of Oklahoma, you can accuse someone of assault without that person ever making physical contact with you. Assault is defined as an argument that escalates into the threat of violence, and throwing a cupcake does fit the bill. What if Pearson threw an ax next?
On a serious note, throwing stuff out the window of your car is illegal and potentially very dangerous. In June this year, one California driver threw an empty glass bottle out the window of their speeding SUV, hitting a 5-year-old girl walking on the side of the road in the head. The impact was so strong as to put the girl in hospital with serious injuries.
Granted, a cupcake thrown from a crawling car and a glass bottle hurled from a speeding vehicle is like apples and oranges, but there is a common denominator: they both qualify as assault.
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