Maybe he was going for a different body part.
Post 12. Watch the video, his arm goes down and swings forward and he’s watching where his hand goes.
“Mistake”, hell. I agree with the OP. I figure efforts to pass off wrongdoing as less objectionable is behind calling things like this a “mistake”. “Misdemeanor sexual battery” is a lot more plausible.
Things I think of as “mistakes” include driving a truck under a bridge you thought it could fit under. That’s a lapse in judgement, a lapse in correctly judging the relative heights of a truck and a bridge. Perhaps the term “lapse in judgement” covers too broad a range.
Yeah, he’s totally full of shit that he was trying to get his hands ready to wave to the audience. I mean, come on. I give folks the benefit of a doubt, but that’s just a chickenshit asshole trying to make up an excuse. FFS.
I saw this on the evening news. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing, and must not have cared that there was a TV camera just a few feet away.
Actually, if anything, the standards for a church volunteer are probably higher than for a school employee, even in the Deep South.
Bet it’s not the first time he’s done something like this in public; just the first time he got caught so publicly.
That definition doesn’t match what happened. It was neither a misunderstanding (unless she had a sign on her butt that said “slap this!”), nor did the contact seem to arise from inattention or inadequate knowledge. A mistake is when a time and reality don’t back up a prediction. An error in judgment is a stupid. Slapping a stranger’s ass is misdemeanor sexual battery–so in your apology you’d say, “I committed misdemeanor sexual battery on that reporter, because I mistakenly thought she’d let me get away with it” or some such. What a douche. I hope his life is very awkward for an inconvenient duration.
Agree with the OP. It bugs the shit out of me when the NFL refers to Michael Vick’s actions as a mistake. Buying the wrong size batteries is a mistake. Slapping reporters and electrocuting dogs are not mistakes, but intentional criminal acts.
Yes.
That is, I’ll accept as a mistake an intentional thing done because of a genuine mistake about the circumstances. I intended to step back, but I didn’t know the cat’s tail was there. My intention was not to step on the cat. I intended to grab that person’s hat off their head, but I thought the person was my friend with whom I have a running joke about grabbing hats. My intention was not to grab the hat of somebody who justifiably got pissed about it. I intended to drink that homemade hard cider, but I didn’t know how alcoholic it was – I didn’t intend to get drunk.
But I will not accept as a mistake either ‘I now wish I hadn’t done that’ or ‘I wish I hadn’t gotten caught’. And ‘I didn’t intend that consequence’ has limits. Getting drunk on homemade booze can be accidental – once. It’s not accidental if you do it again, because now you know that homemade booze can be a lot stronger than it tastes. And if you step on the cat not once in a while but ten times in one week, you need to be more careful where you’re putting your feet.
And if you straight out saw the cat was there and stepped on the cat anyway, that doesn’t become a ‘mistake’ because it turns out that people made a fuss about it.
Collision is the term used by traffic planners and engineer, too. “Accident” could possibly imply that there was no driver fault and nobody wants to see something they wrote get pulled into that kind of argument.
They can forgive him and fire him or otherwise curtail his activities. I think of it as being forgiven with both barrels.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I always thought you could do something completely intentionally and still have it be a mistake. As a matter of fact, the defition (Merriam-Webster) implies it’s an intentional act that was faulty, not some random occurrence.
For example, some knucklehead may throw gasoline on a fire intentionally, but have it still be a mistake.
I think a lot of people here, are as has already been said, confusing mistake for accident. That idiot who slapped the reporter’s ass definitely made a mistake, but it was in no way accidental.
Yeah, I don’t see the problem in describing his intentional action as resulting from a mistake in judgment.
Same here. An intentional act can certainly be a mistake. I’ve done many things intentionally that I consider mistakes now. This is different than doing something “by mistake,” which does connote an accidental or otherwise unintentional nature.
I think that applies here. He thought the circumstance was such that, by slapping that reporter in the ass, he’d be hailed as an awesome bro and everyone would think he was super-cool. He was mistaken about that - the actual circumstance is that everyone thinks he’s a douche bag and he might lose his job.
I’m not particularly bothered about ‘mistake’ in this context, but I’ve spent too much time reading SorryWatch to be able to slide past this bit:
“I was getting ready to bring my hands up and wave to the camera to the audience; there was a misjudge in character and decision-making,”
Check out the third-person language on that one. A ‘misjudge in character’ just appeared magically out of nowhere and imposed itself on the situation without my even realising it!
Dude, what you mean is “I displayed bad character through the decision I made, which is in fact the responsibility of me, not some impersonal force”
I won’t totally throw him to the buzzards yet, however, unless he followed up with the hoary old “this is not who I am” in which case, fuck it.
He needs to study the elements of an effective apology. Come to think of it, a lot of people should probably read that list.
“But he’s paid his debt to society! So did OJ Simpson! Let’s all bow down and worship them.”
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Yeah, I could see some 16-year-old kid thinking that. Not a middle-aged man, unless he has early-onset dementia or something like that.:dubious:
Lots of middle-aged men out there haven’t evolved much past their 16 year-old selves.
I got a degree in journalism, which in retrospect was a mistake.
Am I right?
Oxygen and glucose depletion due to running? Apparently you can lap the bridge once, twice, or three times. No idea how far that is.