A deadly weapon is one which can inflict mortal or great bodily harm. Car: made of steel and capable of great speed. Human: soft and slow. I'd say the definition is well-met, an assessment supported by countless judges.
But then a plane, train, forklift, any sort of machinery-- even a bicycle (!) can be construed to be a "weapon".
We humans are pretty damn frail, really.
Intent.
They will find this to be self defense. On one side we have a male that has twice confronted a driver and probably wasn't civil about it. On the other side we have a woman that was probably scared. Note that she stopped once the man was incapacitated instead of driving away.
@Ice Prez, yeah that is a factor. I don't think it justifies what she did, but we were not there and don't know how he approached her....its possible she felt physically threatened and reacted. There is a rumor she will not be charged
DIRK, while her actions could have been more measured, certainly, I think you still owe the girl an apology for plastering her mudshot - HUGELY - on your blog while not reporting all the facts.
You should have dug deeper into this story before painting anyone as evil.
Sorry dude....
Hmmm... I know him.
He has always been nothing but kind to me and my wife too.
However, that don't change the fact the girl shouldn't have her face posted up like a FBI Top Ten Wanted List.
Stories are reported as facts are gathered. If news outlets waited to report until all the facts were in, daily newspapers would go out of business in a month.
So it's annoying to constantly have readers who freak out at initial reports with limited information. If the information were incorrect, it'd be different. Stop trying to manage the press from afar.
You know, it's bad enough when the Oregonian runs a story about a driver deliberately attempting to smash a cyclist with their car and the grubby ultraconservative worms that infest their comments sections take the driver's side. I never imagined that all the same worms lived under the Mercury's rock as well.
We humans are pretty damn frail, really.
Intent.
You should have dug deeper into this story before painting anyone as evil.
Sorry dude....
He has always been nothing but kind to me and my wife too.
However, that don't change the fact the girl shouldn't have her face posted up like a FBI Top Ten Wanted List.
That is unforgivable if true.
So it's annoying to constantly have readers who freak out at initial reports with limited information. If the information were incorrect, it'd be different. Stop trying to manage the press from afar.