Mental Note: only throw the mushy red tomatoes
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]he mushy remains of a tomato thrown at a prominent member of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats has posed a legal dilemma for authorities trying to assess how to punish the thrower.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Police investigating the fruit, thrown by an unemployed protestor at the premier of the state of Brandenburg, said they have concluded it was a yellow tomato. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Had it been a soft red one, the man would have faced a lesser charge of causing malicious damage. A harder, green tomato could carry the tougher charge of bodily harm. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]A yellow one is somewhere in between. "In these types of cases it has to do with the consistency (of the fruit)," said Caecilia Cramer-Krahforst, spokeswoman for the court in the eastern city of Cottbus. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]No decision on the charge has yet been reached.
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]he mushy remains of a tomato thrown at a prominent member of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats has posed a legal dilemma for authorities trying to assess how to punish the thrower.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Police investigating the fruit, thrown by an unemployed protestor at the premier of the state of Brandenburg, said they have concluded it was a yellow tomato. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Had it been a soft red one, the man would have faced a lesser charge of causing malicious damage. A harder, green tomato could carry the tougher charge of bodily harm. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]A yellow one is somewhere in between. "In these types of cases it has to do with the consistency (of the fruit)," said Caecilia Cramer-Krahforst, spokeswoman for the court in the eastern city of Cottbus. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]No decision on the charge has yet been reached.
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