# Assault with a deadly bubble **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 16, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362 "2010-10-16T17:29:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/41 "2010-10-20T09:59:37Z")
> [@ColdPhoenix](#): > > Yeah, taking into account wind, you can have quite a bit of control over where bubbles end up going over a short distance. > > It is harmless but some people would find it annoying to have bubbles being blown at them on a long, hot day. > > And it’s obviously not impossible to take affront at (see Officer Bubbles). The problem with your “argument” is that she wasn’t blowing them at him. This version of the video doesn’t show it, but _he walked over to her_ and then began hassling her. The female police officer had been present before that, and was smiling as she bantered with the protester. Only when Officer Bubbles arrived on the scene did the mood change. And, **kitten** , your counting ability is impressive and must have taken so much time practicing that you didn’t have much time left to develop your reading and literary skills. Perhaps that’s why you don’t understand the figurative use of the word ‘hissing’. The deficiencies in your comprehension skills, **kittenblue** , are even more evident when you somehow take from the encounter that, “It sounds like he said since it was detergent, and could possibly get in the eyes of the un-sunglassed officer next to him and interfere with her vision, he’d consider it an attempt at assault.”. Watch the video again, you douche. That’s not at all what he said or implied. He said, more than clearly, if the bubble touched him she’d be arrested. D’ya follow? ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/42 "2010-10-20T10:43:51Z")
In my “argument” I never said she was blowing them directly at him. I’m not defending him. As I said in my original post he should have acted professionally. All I was saying was that the girl isn’t completely blameless, she was blowing them directly in the face of the female officer (based on the video you linked, I haven’t looked out for other versions). Fair enough, the female officer didn’t seem bothered and the girl should obviously not have been arrested, but she was showing a lack of respect for the police and that’s what he took offense at. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/43 "2010-10-20T12:55:24Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Number 2: It sounds like he said since it was detergent, and could possibly get in the eyes of the un-sunglassed officer next to him and interfere with her vision, he’d consider it an attempt at assault. In addition to what **KarlGauss** already said, isn’t this a product that marketed to children who constantly use it unsupervised and manage to avoid hundred, if not thousands – no millions! – of doctor and emergency room visits a year for treatment for vision interference? WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN! > [@ColdPhoenix](#): > > Fair enough, the female officer didn’t seem bothered and the girl should obviously not have been arrested, but she was showing a lack of respect for the police and that’s what he took offense at. RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH OR I WILL MAKE UP A LAW AND ARREST YOU WITH IT! So what if he took offense? His job was to keep the peace and apply any laws as applicable. His “taking offense” is no reason to arrest someone and if he can’t do his job professionally without reacting based on his personal offense, he shouldn’t be a police officer. This also goes for kittenblue’s “cranky” comment above. I wonder how how his departmental command is reacting to his Facebook page and subsequent possible lawsuit of YouTube commenters. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/44 "2010-10-20T13:03:41Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > You know the girl was doing it to be a douche. In the US, our jails are filled to overflowing with people arrested for victimless crimes, like using drugs. If we begin locking up douches, who will be left to guard the prisoners, drive the buses, run businesses, pay taxes, etc? ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/45 "2010-10-20T13:03:51Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH OR I WILL MAKE UP A LAW AND ARREST YOU WITH IT! > > So what if he took offense? His job was to keep the peace and apply any laws as applicable. His “taking offense” is no reason to arrest someone and if he can’t do his job professionally without reacting based on his personal offense, he shouldn’t be a police officer. This also goes for kittenblue’s “cranky” comment above. Next time try reading what has been posted before acting like a twat. I said “as a professional he should have just ignored it as it wasn’t doing any harm” and “the girl should obviously not have been arrested”. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/46 "2010-10-20T13:24:07Z")
As soon as you said “the girl isn’t blameless,” you included qualifications and equivocation on whether you thought he should have acted professionally since she broke no law; therefore, you should a long, hard look in the mirror and reflect on the fact that your uncalled-for twat remark is a comment your your dessicated, venerealized hairy taco of a self. ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/47 "2010-10-20T13:43:06Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > As soon as you said “the girl isn’t blameless,” you included qualifications and equivocation on whether you thought he should have acted professionally since she broke no law; therefore, you should a long, hard look in the mirror and reflect on the fact that your uncalled-for twat remark is a comment your your dessicated, venerealized hairy taco of a self. Not true, what the girl did or didn’t do should have no effect on an officer’s professionalism. The girl did nothing that deserved the reaction she got but I do feel that there is a decent possibility that she was doing it to wind up a police officer and potentially get a reaction. If the cop was professional it wouldn’t have happened. If she hadn’t been blowing bubbles in police officers faces it wouldn’t have happened. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/48 "2010-10-20T13:57:39Z")
It didn’t seem like she was being all that “douchey” to me. She was talking pretty calmly. I mean…come on. They’re bubbles. They’re about as harmless as you can get. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/49 "2010-10-20T14:07:49Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > It didn’t seem like she was being all that “douchey” to me. She was talking pretty calmly. I mean…come on. They’re bubbles. They’re about as harmless as you can get. Holding your finger 1 inch away from someone’s nose saying “I’m not touching youuuuuu” is harmless too. Harmless doesn’t mean “not douchey”. Seems to me the whole point is to annoy cops in a way that they can’t do anything about. They can’t walk away because they have a job to do, they can’t stop you because you’re not breaking any law, they can’t even ask you to stop because that’s a guarantee to get 10x as much crap as they’re already getting. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/50 "2010-10-20T14:13:32Z")
… **Officer bubbles** just doesn’t understand how people work. His ‘bubble clampdown,’ and now this ridiculous legal stunt, has only given him more attention/mockery (what a silly, egotistical fool). I mean…come on; even a child would know this; **Officer bubbles** is less socially astute then a child. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/51 "2010-10-20T14:16:21Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Holding your finger 1 inch away from someone’s nose saying “I’m not touching youuuuuu” is harmless too. Harmless doesn’t mean “not douchey”. > > Seems to me the whole point is to annoy cops in a way that they can’t do anything about. They can’t walk away because they have a job to do, they can’t stop you because you’re not breaking any law, they can’t even ask you to stop because that’s a guarantee to get 10x as much crap as they’re already getting. I guess if you think blowing bubbles is “douchey” then maybe you shouldn’t be a cop or work with the public… She stopped blowing bubbles when the guy started reading her the riot act. She was trying to explain what she was doing though I couldn’t hear what she was saying. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/52 "2010-10-20T14:33:59Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I guess if you think blowing bubbles is “douchey” then maybe you shouldn’t be a cop or work with the public… Blowing bubbles in someones face is douchey, blowing bubbles up in the air, not douchey. When I was working retail, if you came into my store and started blowing bubbles in the faces of the staff, the manager would ask you to leave. Just because you work with the public doesn’t mean you have to take their shit. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/53 "2010-10-20T14:36:49Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Number 3: You know the girl was doing it to be a douche. Clearly Officer Bubbles had that not-so-fresh feeling. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/54 "2010-10-20T15:02:07Z")
But she wasn’t doing it in his face. ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/55 "2010-10-20T15:43:31Z")
If I’ve taken one thing from this thread it is that there are actual people in this world who don’t think soap bubbles are awesome, and that just blows my mind. No one should need a reason to blow soap bubbles. Who doesn’t like soap bubbles!? Bubbles! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/56 "2010-10-20T16:01:01Z")
Ha! If he’s looking to blame someone for being depicted as a ridiculous cartoon, he doesn’t need to look any farther than the end of his nose. What an enormous douchebag - if there is any justice in the world the end result of this will be a desk job for him. (In a video store, ideally.) ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/57 "2010-10-20T17:44:17Z")
> [@gladtobeblazed](#): > > According to [this article](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jay/bursting-officer-bubbles_b_650095.html) the police arrested 20 people. Not people, they were garbages. Apparently cops don’t think much of the people they meet during duty. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/58 "2010-10-21T02:45:26Z")
According to [this article](http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/878647--new-comments-taunt-officer-bubbles?bn=1)today. [This simple YouTube search](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=officer+bubbles&aq=0)confirms it. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/59 "2010-10-21T03:38:04Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > According to [this article](http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/878647--new-comments-taunt-officer-bubbles?bn=1)today. > > [This simple YouTube search](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=officer+bubbles&aq=0)confirms it. Sweeeeeet! ---
**Author:** ![heavyarms553](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@heavyarms553](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heavyarms553)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362/60 "2010-10-21T19:51:21Z")
Its a good thing the protester didn’t place a flower in the barrel of the officer’s pistol. He would have killed her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362.md?page=4)