Tom Cruise gets it in the face!

HarryKeogh said:
I think if you got dressed up for a very special event where you are one of the focuses of attention and someone embarassed you in front of the world you wouldn't think it was harmless.
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You would think wrong.

Sure it was just a squirt of water but you just can't do those things.
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I beg to differ, unless you think that the video clip was fabricated, you might rephrase.

What if it was a bucket of water?
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It would be more funnyp

or someone spit on you or whatever.
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Spit would be a health issue, that would be wrong.... Unless I was a "Clear" in which I know I couldn't get sick anyway.

At what point does it not become harmless?
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When there is actual harm involved.
 
Grammatron said:
I don't know if it was that harmless. If someone I know did that to me I'd laugh, but if some a-hole TV person did it for ratings I'd be pissed.
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So, do you think shows like Candid Camera are wrong?
 
thaiboxerken said:
You would think wrong.



I beg to differ, unless you think that the video clip was fabricated, you might rephrase.



It would be more funnyp



Spit would be a health issue, that would be wrong.... Unless I was a "Clear" in which I know I couldn't get sick anyway.



When there is actual harm involved.
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fortunately the law (at least in the U.S.) disagrees with you.
 
If a celebrity can't be publicly mocked, ridiculed and squirt in the face with water, then they aren't truly celebrities. Cruise should count his blessings.
 
Shame and embarrassment are not harm. Geeze this is a variation on one of the oldest practical jokes. If it had been a squirting flower on the "reporters" lapel would everyone be taking this as seriously? Same principal, different prop.

Maybe the water went up his nose or something... that could make a person a little testy.
 
HarryKeogh said:
you sound like those people who say "with all the starving people in the world I can't believe they're spending 100 million dollars on a telescope"
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And you sound like someone who would spend time prosecuting jaywalking in a city with a hundreds of unsolved murders.
 
shecky said:
If a celebrity can't be publicly mocked, ridiculed and squirt in the face with water, then they aren't truly celebrities. Cruise should count his blessings.
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Indeed. For Tom Cruise having someone seek them out for mocking, ridicule, and water squirting is far more important than having no one do this.
 
It confirmed that a crew from the same show had squirted Sharon Osbourne with water at a cinema screening last month.

Rock manager and X Factor judge Osbourne responded by getting a bucket of water and going after her assailant.
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From the article. Guess it depends on the person.
 
TragicMonkey said:
And you sound like someone who would spend time prosecuting jaywalking in a city with a hundreds of unsolved murders.
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oh yeah? and you sound like a big poopy-head!
 
Bandersnatch said:
From the article. Guess it depends on the person.
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Yeah, I would drop the charges and then hire many, many people to do the same to these "reporters" at random times.
 
rdtjr said:
I thought it was kind of funny too. Now the "news" crew is being charged with assault? What kind of assault? In the U.S. that wouldn't even be "simple assault" in most states that I know of, so I wonder what kind of assault these guys would be charged with.
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Can you provide a citation for that claim? Throwing something at someone with the intent of hitting the person with the thrown object qualifies as assault as I understand it - even if that something is as harmless as water, a marshmallow, or a stuffed animal.

TragicMonkey
Do you honestly think that if you walked out right now and someone sprayed you in the face with water, you could get a cop to arrest them?
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Yes, I do. If someone sprayed me with a firehouse, that would undoubtedly be an assault that deserves an arrest. Someone spraying me with a much, much smaller amount of water is still an assault and is subject to arrest. It is not the cop's job to decided how much water is required for prosecution of a crime (it is the office of the district attorney to decide that), it is the cop's job to arrest people if a valid complaint is brought against a suspect.

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As for this incident, I don't see it as funny as others do, but irregardless [sic] of the actual humor, the rule is if you are going to play a prank, then you should be willing to take any heat arising from the playing of the joke. I consider this prank a stupid thing to do.

Aside: shouldn't an Operating Thetan IV, like Mr. Cruise, be able to prevent water from hitting him? I mean what is the point of being able “to control life, thought, matter, energy, space, and time,” if you can't prevent yourself from being squirted with water?
 
Ladewig said:
Can you provide a citation for that claim? Throwing something at someone with the intent of hitting the person with the thrown object qualifies as assault as I understand it - even if that something is as harmless as water, a marshmallow, or a stuffed animal.
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Wow. So every woman who ever threw a drink in a guy's face at a bar is guilty of assault. Granted, the guys are usually being creeps, but then, who's to say Tom Cruise isn't?

Big can o' worms to open.

What next? Assault by silly string?
 
TragicMonkey said:
"No, I was busy hauling someone down to the station for spraying Tom Cruise's pretty face with water."
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Ugh, he's so nasty and old. I think I'm the only persn on earth who thinks he's one of the least attractive people out there.

RUN KATIE, RUN!
 
pgwenthold said:
Wow. So every woman who ever threw a drink in a guy's face at a bar is guilty of assault.
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The guys could press charges but I'm sure they'd be too embarassed to do so.

Granted, the guys are usually being creeps, but then, who's to say Tom Cruise isn't?
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from the above article:

After the incident, Cruise continued his hour-long walkabout to greet fans who had waited hours for their idol in the sweltering heat.

He is famed for his lengthy walkabouts at film premieres, spending hours greeting fans, signing autographs and talking on their mobile phones.
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what a creep.
 
Assault (n) Law.

1. An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another.
2. The act or an instance of unlawfully threatening or attempting to injure another.




I just don't see the word "assault" being applicable to this event.
 
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