Felonies? I hope this is some sick joke;
Va. students charged with felonies for snowball throwing
Harrisonburg police say throwing snowballs at occupied vehicles isn’t a harmless prank.
Two James Madison University students learned that lesson the hard way. Each faces a felony charge for throwing snowballs at a city snowplow and an unmarked police car.
Harrisonburg Police Department spokeswoman Mary-Hope Vass says both 21-year-old students were charged Saturday with throwing missiles at occupied vehicles.
Vass says any object thrown at a vehicle can result in the felony charge.
From the WaPo : http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/virginia/va-students-charged-with-felon.html
How is this a good use of government power? If anyone has better information please let someone know.
Snowball’s are a harmful prank? Show me the damages. Right now.
I guess pulling a gun on snowball throwers is probably justified . . .
Not that the gun pulling on U street is connected to the Harrisonburg events. I didn’t mean to imply that, other than to point out that without additional information, this seems to be an overextension of police power.
True Dat. So, basically the kids had the bad luck to hit an unmarked police car, and the officers inside got angry. Ugh.
i don’t know the whole story, but from what I understand at this time: yeah. Seems silly for a snowplow to be angry at that as well.