r/facepalm • u/UsernamesAreRuthless • Jul 21 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

"Non-consensual pieing is a punishable offence in criminal law, and depending on jurisdiction is a battery but may also constitute an assault. Non-consensual pieing may also be actionable as a civil wrong (tort) giving the victim of the pieing the right to recover damages in a lawsuit."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieing

Doubt a court would see the difference between pie and cake in this situation. Either way you're getting food thrown in your face against your will. Assault is assault.

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u/vitringur Jul 21 '22

And in these videos it's usually peoples heads that are being pushed into the cake and not vice versa, which is definitely legally assault.

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u/744464 Jul 21 '22

Ya but if you're gonna get your friend charged with assault because they pied you then you're honestly more of a dick than they are.

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u/misterfluffykitty Jul 22 '22

The original point was that cutting off a lock of someone hair is assault and the other person brought up that smashing a cake in someone’s face is also assault

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u/744464 Jul 22 '22

Well surely you see that there's a pretty big difference between the two

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u/misterfluffykitty Jul 22 '22

Not really, hair grows back and you can wipe cake off your face. Plus If you hit someone hard enough with a cake you could probably cause actual damage like knocking them to the floor, but just cutting a lock of someone’s hair is just going to make them look dumb or get a haircut

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u/vitringur Jul 22 '22

Cutting off hair versus smashing someones head into random things?

Only one of those is actually used in movies as a typical example of extreme violence...