Getting a winger arrested today

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Tuesday April 04, 2006 · 10:07 AM PDT

2006/04/04 · 10:07

So I'm down at the local High School passing out draft counseling literature when a wing nut jumps out of his van and starts yelling at me. "Take off your phony military stuff" (I'm wearing an old field jacket with my unit combat patch). "They're dying over there, stop passing out this garbage." And other typical don't exercise your freedom of speech because (fill in the blank)

He then proceeds to slap my hand with the handouts, scattering them all over the street. Needless to say, my inner Buddhist was not in residence. I informed him that was assault and I would report him while also calling him several colorful expletives. He got in his van and drove off with my single digit salute waving him goodbye. There were witnesses whom I got their contact info from and then I called the no-emergency police number and reported the incident.

A police officer came by and took down my statement. After interviewing me he said it wasn't assault but harassment, a misdemeanor. He asked me if I wanted to press charges. Of course. I had the license number and the officer said he would follow through and turn this over to the city attorney for prosecution.

The lesson for today is, don't let them get away with anything.

All in all a productive morning.

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