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Felony Snowball Tossing Charges Lodged
The Smiking Gun ^ | 9 Feb. 2010 | Staff

Posted on 02/09/2010 9:43:27 AM PST by PilotDave

Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday's blizzard. Charles Gill and Ryan Knight, both 21, were nabbed by cops in Harrisonburg, where they attend James Madison University. According to police, the pair first targeted a city plow last Saturday afternoon. The driver responded by calling cops to report the frosty fusillade. When police responded to the scene in a bid to identify the assailants, their unmarked vehicle also came under an icy assault. Gill and Knight, a guard on JMU's basketball team, were then apprehended and booked into jail for throwing missiles at occupied vehicles, a felony.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: assault; crime; felony; jmu; prank; snowball; snowstorm
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To: Boonie
Reminds me of the scene in "The Patriot" when a British detachment is traveling through the woods, dragging Mel Gibson's son as a prisoner. Suddenly shots ring out. One by one by the British soldiers fall. Eventually, the bullets stop but the tomahawk work begins. There's blood everywhere. The entire British detachment is wiped out (almost) and the prisoner is rescued and led away.

Afterward, a lone survivor is being questioned by Lord Cornwallis. As the interrogation proceeds, it becomes clear that the British were wiped out by a single man.

21 posted on 02/09/2010 9:58:59 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I was born in America, but now I live in Declinistan.)
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To: Doomonyou
Snowballs are now missles...

Give it some time and they'll be considered WMD's

22 posted on 02/09/2010 10:01:58 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM where are you?)
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To: PilotDave

I’m siding with the students - why?? Because JMU is my alma mater ;-) Go Dukes!


23 posted on 02/09/2010 10:02:15 AM PST by Lilpug15 (The Forgotten Man: He works, he votes and he generally prays - but He Always Pays": Sumner)
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To: PilotDave

Yikes! Minneapolis is leaking out into Virginia! A year ago I was walking by this one house with a labrador retriever in the yard. So I pick up some snow, and the dog is going “yeahyeahyeah snowballsnowballsnowball”. I lob the snowball towrd some random place in the yard, and the dog runs after it. Owner throws a hairy fit, claims I am assaulting the dog, pelting the dog with snowballs.


24 posted on 02/09/2010 10:02:53 AM PST by Fred Hayek (From this point forward the Democratic Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)
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To: PilotDave

I think it’s crazy to should arrest these guys, BUT, a good unexpected snowball to the driver’s window can scare the crap out of you. I’ve seen people get out and chase kids who pounded them. If you’ve been sitting stuck for an hour in snowbound traffic, you are already pretty irritable.

One of my brothers was with a bunch of kids throwing snowballs at traffic in a nasty after-school snowstorm. A bus driver got tired of it and stopped the bus. The kids took off. (This was 50 years ago when kids still had some fear of adults.) One of them ran in front of the bus and slipped just as the driver started up again. A front tire ran over the kid’s head.

I can still remember the police coming to our house asking my brother what he saw happen.


25 posted on 02/09/2010 10:05:16 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: PilotDave

“Gill and Knight, a guard on JMU’s basketball team, were then apprehended and booked into jail for throwing missiles at occupied vehicles, a felony”

throwing missiles? a snowball is a missile??

talk about using inflammatory language to increase the impact of an otherwise boring story


26 posted on 02/09/2010 10:06:22 AM PST by sten
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To: Fred Hayek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqROt6plySA


27 posted on 02/09/2010 10:07:48 AM PST by houeto (Remember in November!)
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To: PilotDave
Perhaps this will be dismissed for lack of evidence, unless the keep the snowballs in the freezer until the trial.

-PJ

28 posted on 02/09/2010 10:08:41 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: tet68
Snowballs. The scourge of modern society. When will the madness end!
Women and minorities hardest hit
George Bush and Sarah Palin to blame.
Story at 11:00
29 posted on 02/09/2010 10:12:33 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 36 days away from outliving Jim Jones)
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To: Tzfat

hows about “conrolling” and “power hungry”...totally “the head ..........., what is in charge”


30 posted on 02/09/2010 10:13:41 AM PST by ldish (Looking forward to Independence Day)
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To: PilotDave
I was appalled that he said he spit a loogie into the snowballs

When I was a young teenager I was at my buddy's house where we were throwing snowballs into his trout pond. As he was pulling his arm back to make a throw, I decided to throw my snowball and try to knock his out of his hand. I was only about 8 feet away from him so it should have been a cinch.

Well it wasn't......throwing as hard as I could I nailed him right upside his head........LOL!

And thats how the fight started.......

31 posted on 02/09/2010 10:14:07 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
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To: PilotDave

You can have my snowball when you pry it from my cold hands.


32 posted on 02/09/2010 10:15:11 AM PST by timeflies
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To: PilotDave

“...then apprehended and booked into jail for throwing missiles at occupied vehicles...”

Throwing missiles?? We’re they heat seeking snowball missiles, MIRV multiple snowball warheads or SAMs?

What an incredible waste of time and abuse of duty...so some kids threw snowballs at you. Boo hoo! Get over it!


34 posted on 02/09/2010 10:21:29 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: PilotDave

Surprised they weren’t labeled terrorists.


35 posted on 02/09/2010 10:24:22 AM PST by diverteach (D.C. has become Jonestown)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Seven YO grandson pelted his other grandmother with a snowball in the face that hit her square on the nose. Brought blood. Turned out it was more of an ice snowball. Bubby got in trouble.


36 posted on 02/09/2010 10:26:19 AM PST by gopheraj
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To: WKUHilltopper

Have any of you peeps ever been in a vehicle thats being pelted with snowballs??? Its a safety threat for sure. Glass sounds like it could shatter at anytime, metal sounds like its been dented big time, its a criminal act absolutely.


37 posted on 02/09/2010 10:26:52 AM PST by biggredd1
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To: Right Wing Assault
Yes, irate stuck ups can be maddened by snowballs. "Mad" being the operative term. This is crazy, let them go and get a life.
38 posted on 02/09/2010 10:32:36 AM PST by JasonC
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To: PilotDave

Now if the the cops had a trunk monkey they could have settled this without felony charges.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGFuMrkVzXw&feature=PlayList&p=4796131B7009060D&index=13


39 posted on 02/09/2010 10:32:44 AM PST by valkyry1
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To: PilotDave

The perps were found with snowball residue on their “firing” hands. It doesn’t look good even though the weapon has not been found.


40 posted on 02/09/2010 10:33:28 AM PST by sbMKE
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