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Permalink Reply by Marcus Moore on February 20, 2014 at 7:27am

Yeah, I don't know...  I was on my way to work and, really who wants to get arrested?

Just some story background- I was riding North on State (I didn't have a stop sign) and this car rolls through a stop sign (from side street) and starts to turn into me.  I think I rang my bell, he stopped suddenly and I made some spittle fly far enough to hit his windshield as I passed his front bumper.  A couple blocks later- I heard a cop's siren, looked over my shoulder and saw him approaching.  I pulled over and he did too, followed by the car I spit on.  The cop saw the infraction and decided to pull me over.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 20, 2014 at 10:24am

Okay, spitting may be disgusting. Provoking or insulting - sure. But how does that constitute PHYSICAL contact when it's touching the windshield, not the person? You lost me on that one.

yaj 7.4 said:

(720 ILCS 5/12-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-3) 
    Sec. 12-3. Battery. 
    (a) A person commits battery if he or she knowingly without legal justification by any means (1) causes bodily harm to an individual or (2) makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with an individual.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 20, 2014 at 10:25am

Seems like a stretch to me.

Eli said:

Is a car's windshield considered an individual now?

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Permalink Reply by El Dorado on February 20, 2014 at 1:21pm

IL legal definition of assault would be; threatening words like "I'm going to kick ur a$$". An aggravated assault would be threatening a CTA driver, elderly person, ambulance drivers ect... A battery is a bit worse and is when actually contact is made. For example, a punch to the nose. An aggravated battery is if you used a weapon when you hit the victim. Spitting is a very nasty battery. The offender could have a disease and then the charges get worse.

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Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on February 20, 2014 at 6:10pm

Hah. I spit into a guys window when he opened it to call me a "faggot". Pretty sure I nailed him good because he started screaming more obscenities afterwards. Prior to this, he was honking and aggressively following me. Needless to say, I got my ass out of there as fast as possible.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on February 21, 2014 at 7:40am

Way to escalate a situation.

And then run away from it.

Adam Herstein said:

Hah. I spit into a guys window when he opened it to call me a "faggot". Pretty sure I nailed him good because he started screaming more obscenities afterwards. Prior to this, he was honking and aggressively following me. Needless to say, I got my ass out of there as fast as possible.

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