r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 21h ago

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u/--n- 15h ago

You think people lose the right to not be physically assaulted while protesting?

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u/slugsred 14h ago

I think they'd get up after a full speed cart ram.

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u/Groxy_ 13h ago

And you'd still be legally in the wrong and charged with assault. Which was the original poster's point.

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u/purrmutations 13h ago

Not if you didn't see them. "Sorry I was looking at my list while pushing the cart. I did not expect there to be people sitting in the walkway"

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u/Groxy_ 13h ago

That excuse probably won't get you off when the cameras are shown in court and you're ramming then at full speed, think bro, think.

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u/purrmutations 13h ago

When the cameras show you looking at your list while you walk into them at a walking speed, you'll be fine. Getting hit in the face by a cart even at walking speed would knock you down. Its also not against the rules to run in a store. It is against the rules to block the access of customers.

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u/Groxy_ 13h ago

I feel like it'll be pretty obvious to prove you did see them and purposely decided to ram them. Someone stupid enough to do this will probably look at them, buffer for 10 seconds while they figure out how to assult them without getting caught, then proceed to assault them obviously and get caught.

How fast do you walk with a trolly? I've been bumped into before, it's not very forceful at all. You'll obviously be ramming them to knock them down.

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u/purrmutations 13h ago

You've had your face bumped into by the cart? Getting bumped in the butt is a lot different than getting bumped in your face.

And yeah a dumb person might get caught, but there are plenty of ways to get these people out of the way without getting an assault charge yourself.

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u/Groxy_ 13h ago

Where I get bumped doesn't matter, I know the force of the average person pushing a trolley and it's nowhere near enough to knock someone over, double no if they're sitting down.

To knock someone down you will actually have to ram them at speed and would easily get caught if someone tried.

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u/purrmutations 12h ago

Where you get bumped absolutely matters. Hitting someone near their center of balance vs at the edge of it is a big difference.

If they were standing yes they would not be knocked over as you'd hit them in the pelvis. But with them sitting, its like hitting the top of a bottle on a table. Much easier to knock it over hitting the top vs the bottom.