[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by jumpy

You can argue the technicalities all you like, but I find a heavily disabled, wheelchair bound man to constitute very little physical threat to anyone. Bat or no.

Finally, someone sees the light.

What would you do to prevent a suspected gary from escaping arrest, knowing the police were on their way, when it involved a family member? If you had any decency, you'd do what was right regardless of the cost to you. Had wheelchair man wanted to do the other chap real harm there's much more he could have done than attempt to level the playing field of his disability with a baseball bat.

And again, Amen brother!
People should realise that emotions did get in the way, yes we don't deny that, and that this case is what it is.
A man, emotionally involved, for obvious reasons.

Originally Posted by Platapus

Clearly the disabled guy thought a baseball bat was an appropriate weapon as he pre-meditatively carried one.

Appropriate? Hard to say really. That's probably all he had to have with him.

I think a baseball bat in anyone's hands no matter how young or old or able or disabled can be a dangerious weapon, especially when it is used as such.

Really? Wow! There must be a lot of pansies out there in this big beautiful world of ours then.
And gun crimes should be down too then in that case.
Why is it that we always fall back on this arguement that a baseball bat is a threatening weapon?
Do we really have to derail this thread and start defining what is considered a threatening weapon? And how a object becomes threatening? And how an object must be made up of and held and wielded or cocked and loaded or held in the 2 hands and swung at full force by an able-bodied man who weighs 300 lbs?

Well, the key is to not look at this issue from an emotional viewpoint. That is what Lawyers and Judges have to do. It is very easy to get swayed by the emotional aspects of this case, especially when the emotions involved agree with you.

Well i do agree with you there.
It just shows that there are human beings out there with feelings and morals and emotions that get the better of them in situations like that. Does that make us weak? Does that make us criminals?

On an emotional level we have this cripple smacking the crap out of a child molester. On an emotional level this is very gratifying.

Hell yea, i'd do the same thing.
And i ask again, is this 27-year old a girl?
A right royal pansie! That should never have been a threatening situation for this clown. I take a guess that the clown thought to himself ill milk this one for all it's worth! What's the bet?

On a logical level we have a person setting up another person and smacking the crap out of them because the first person *thinks* they are a child molester.

Yes, it certainly is easy to sit back here, all of us, including me and judge the situation from afar.
Logic, would not be the first action i would undertake in a situation like that either.
And the point about him not knowing the facts, i have to agree with you, but surely there is more to this story than what is told.
More reports of the abuse, marks, etc on body of child etc etc.

The actual facts and evidence will come out in court where they will, hopefully, be examined not from an emotional viewpoint but from a logical viewpoint.

Ofc they will, that's one reason why the guy in the wheel chair is going to court.
Oh, and 2 other reasons ofc too, one: the clown that pressed charges, because he couldn't defend himself from a guy in a wheel chair () and two: the prosecution who i'm sure informed the clown that one: this would be beneficial to your case and two: let's make some money!

I think at the end of the day we are all going to go around in circles with this case.