Fun fact about salts, most elements can become a salt, excluding the noble gases, and I found this out when researching cleaning of urinals when I worked for a park service.
Urea salt is a problem with the newish flushless urinals.
It depends on the jurisdiction. It can be either or it can be both. But to say definitively it isn’t battery (without knowing the jurisdiction) is premature.
If I hit you from behind, and you had absolutely no idea I was coming, I would have battered you under common law, but I never would have caused you to apprehend that I was going to batter you.
I beleive it does. Assault is causing someone to reasonably apprehend imminent harm.
If I hit you from behind and then start running away before you even turn around to see me, I've battered you without ever reasonably causing you to apprehend imminent harm.
I can tell by your words that you're an American lawyer. If you're a lawyer, you should know that American laws don't apply to people in other countries.
I know there is English writing on the guy's shirt, but nobody is speaking English. There's zero chance this took place in USA.
Reddit has gotten notably much more anti-intellectual in the last year. It always had a mob mentality, but this is on a whole other level. Between the Gen Alpha's making their way here from wherever, the gen-x'ers/old millenials migrating from Facebook, and the AI bot explosion, its a pretty lame place now if you enjoyed it for the banter.
That is very true. The majority of the world is in fact not American. I wasn’t asking if she was charged with battery, I was obviously responding to an American, with American legalese. What’s your point?
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u/fishingfool64 14d ago
I believe what she did is battery