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Offensive Touching and Aggrivated Menacing!!!

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Sorry it the title seems misleading, but damn, these are funny charges.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090912/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_gas_station_assault

Yahoo! News said:
Fri Sep 11, 8:53 pm ET
NEWPORT, Del. – Delaware State Police said a woman punched a gas station clerk in the face and held scissors to his throat in a dispute over how much money she had given him. The clerk at the Country Farms on West Newport Pike told police that a 53-year-old woman asked for $20 of gas, but only gave him a $1 bill. The clerk said the woman, certain that she had given him a $20 bill, screamed at him when he refused to give her $20.
Then police said the woman stormed behind the counter, punched the clerk in the face and held scissors to his throat. At that point, he gave the woman two $10 bills.
As the woman drove away, police said she found the $20 bill in her purse and returned to the gas station. Police said she was arrested and charged with offensive touching and aggravated menacing.
 
I guess the charges are supposed to be the funny part? Why?
 
It is a pretty funny wording. Menacing sounds more like something that a super villain does.
 
This is a standard definition of battery.
Black's Law Dicitonary said:
Battery- The use of force against another resulting in harmful or offensive contact
 
This is a standard definition of battery.
Maybe, but it sounds so much sillier when you say Offensive Touching and Aggravated Menacing. Kinda like Walrus said, it makes her sound like a pedophile super villian with an attitude.
 
Possibly, but it has been that way since, well, about forever, or since tort early tort reform (which I don't know when).
 
Offensive touching would of been if she poked him in the face a couple times . I think punching someone across the face and holding a knife to their throat is more than menacing.
 
That's not really what it means. These aren't just random adjectives they throw around.

A battery, in tort cases is defined by:
Womp's Torts Class Notes said:
Any:
1) Intentional
2) Unprivileged
3) Harmful or Offensive
4) Touching

And offensive is any act undesirable by society. Now, this case obviously falls under a tort yes, but the question is whether it was be a criminal case as well.
 
This thread is misleading. I thought it was being offered. Damn, better try my luck in the Bat forums...
 
That's not really what it means. These aren't just random adjectives they throw around.

A battery, in tort cases is defined by:


And offensive is any act undesirable by society. Now, this case obviously falls under a tort yes, but the question is whether it was be a criminal case as well.

:up:

Aggravated Menacing is causing another person to believe that you will cause serious physical harm to them and it usually associated with brandishing a weapon. In this case the scissors.

Offensive Touching is simply touching someone in a way that is socially unacceptable and likely to cause alarm or fear. In this case, the punch.

Depending on some additional factors both are only misdemeanor charges.
 
It is a pretty funny wording. Menacing sounds more like something that a super villain does.

Birth of a super villain?

Man, I really do feel sorry for the gas station clerk though.

He had to suffer the consequences of another persons utter ignorance.

Hope he presses charges.
 
I like how this exact plot happened on Sienfeld. George's 20 with the lipstick on it? Anyone?
 

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