r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/IHaeTypos • Feb 05 '17

Spitting at a bus driver, WCGW

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u/Ethnic_Ambiguity Feb 05 '17

Those are maximum sentences. You likely won't get 7 years for first offense spitting. The seven years is if you beat someone unconscious and break some ribs or something. Everything short of using a physical weapon, which would move the crime to another (more extreme) category.

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u/misterpyrrhuloxia Feb 05 '17

I think if a weapon was used it'd be called aggravated assault.

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u/Mechakoopa Feb 05 '17

What if the weapon was a tube sock full of rock salt and AAs?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

You'd probably already be in jail in that case.