I’d say shit can and should be considered a deadly weapon. I think anyone who has ever changed a dirty diaper will agree with me.
What a crappy way to get publicity.
Well, at least we can hope the girls won’t say, “like, man, when it all began, I almost shit in my pants!” when they testify.
Sorry. :eek: Bad Elenfair! Bad!
E. :o
I sure to God hope that it isn’t even legal to spay people in San Bernadino.
Buuuut, it is California.
Steve Dallas put it best: “Don’t sue poor people because you can’t get money out of them.”
And, andros, although IANAL, I’m pretty sure it’s not assault, the threat or use of force, but, rather, battery: “unwanted contact”. Unwanted, all right. Ewwwww.
Finally, from what I understand, the women’s basis for suing MTV (“I read it on the web! It must be true!”) is that the network’s employees started pulling protective tarps over the equipment prior to the Rangers coming out onstage, e.g., the network warned the employees, but not the spectators about the expected outcome.
I think Carson Daily needs to be thrown in jail for being associated with that non-music video channel. That is the most disturbing thing I have ever heard. MTV SUCKS
slight hijack, but maybe if we ALL sue MTV, they’ll actually show videos again. Near as I can tell, that M stands for merde, not music.
Heh.
Well, yes. In this case the M does stand for merde.
The thing that is throwing me is that every story I have seen on this mentions that the two girls are middle school age.
Didn’t MTV check any IDs before the taping? MTV must have known there was going to be some questionable activities going on even if they are going to claim some ignorance as to the specifics. Is it standard operating procedure to let junior high school students stand next to the stage in such situations?
I’m picturing the poor guy who’s running camera two.
He’s been covered with a tarp for thirty minutes so he’s all hot and sweaty, and he’s saying into his headset mike, “They’re gonna what?”
I have no sympathy. The difference between watching MTV and being sprayed with actual shit is trivial. I’m surprised they even noticed.
-fh
Okay, so I am gathering these girls are young, but aren’t any of the adults around them concerned about them getting ill?
Who knows what these two did to make themselves be able to spray bodily fluids like that on comand.
Then to have it land on exposed skin.
Hell, people have died from Ecoli in resturants from food handlers not washing hand properly.
And come on Dave, stop watching MTV, your giving the rest of us from Iowa a bad name here! You only live a few blocks away, don’t make me call Mrs. Dave and have some kind of intervention. We love ya’ man!
Being from California does not mean you are strange, well most of the time.
I know I’ve been away from San Bernardino for a whlie but I don’t think spaying is legal, unless of course it’s some kind of population control thing.
However, spraying people with fecal matter is another thing. I do think assault charges should be looked into. All the money in the world won’t do a bit of good if your sick the rest of your life.
Charge them with assault, if anything they should get a hefty fine along with some jail time. Any future earnings should be garnished until the fine is paid off.
How could MTV, the network with quality shows like JACKASS and TRL, let this happen, cancel the show and bring back Beavis and Butthead, now that’s entertainment.
The upside to the Shower Rangers talent, it may be a way to keep their manhood while serving time.
I hope not.
Yes, but that is from eating one specific strain of e.coli.
My girlfriend is a nurse and has been sprayed with poop many times without lasting damages.
hijack-
My college microbiology professor used to say, “the world is covered in a layer of feces. It’s just thicker in some places than in other places.”
signed
a microbiologist and poop examiner
labdude
Don’t assume I watch it…I saw a link to the story on another board…I have enough insanity in my life as it is… 
I read the article in another news site and had to read the poop section twice to make sure I was reading it correctly and then I was completely stunned and actually angry.
For one thing, who the heck thought this stunt up? Just what type of warped, selfish and sick mind would consider this even funny? I guess the two guys, probably in their 20s, never thought about the feelings of the two girls.
There was a movie years ago about an American caught in Russia doing something illegal, who was sentenced to a gulag in Siberia. In one part, the showed a big, open pit, filled with sewage, which was their toilet, out in the open, with planks crossing it. You go out on one, drop the pants, aim and drop the load in the cold, in front of everyone, especially the guards. Well, the American, fed up with his treatment, deliberately dove into the deep pit of feces and when a guard came to get him out, he dragged the guard in and it turned into something like playing in a pool. The movie made it look funny, but I, who have dumped many a septic tank in my time, found it disgusting.
No matter if nurses have been sprayed with feces from time to time, the hospital alerts them if the patients have communicable diseases, without harm, they have instant access to washing stations and bottles of strong antibacterial cleansing solutions. I think of the massive amount of bacteria contained in human fecal material and shudder.
Feces, along with being made up of indigestible food parts, is made up of major amounts of dead and dying bacteria.
What if some of the stuff had hit the girls in the eyes and mouth? Both areas are direct inlets to the body. What might not be harmful to the host body, in this case the fecal producers, can be harmful to the girls. I consider splashing a person with human feces about as disgusting and repellent as possible.
Just because there are websites where perverts enjoy eating human feces does not mean the stuff is as safe as brown gravy. (Who, I wonder, would choose to have sex with a guy or girl who just had a mouthful of feces and then, kiss them?!) Yuck!!
MTV needs to be sued and the two morons need to be sued and charged with felonious assault.
Fucking WORD, Tinker.
Good god, if that had happened to me, I would be literally throwing up-even the SMELL of feces in an unflushed public toilet, or even just SEEING it makes me gag. Literally gag.
I would probably have screamed bloody fucking murder.
Poop-eating era GG is so overrated… I prefer the Jabbers, myself.
Bill Weber (the final guitar player from the Murder Junkies) lives back home in Cincinnati now… he’s actually really nice guy, pretty soft-spoken. I occasionally run into him at the bar, and ask him if he ever gets misty eyed for having feces tossed at him. He’s currently playing with the Tigerlillies, a longtime local indiepop band.
Darn it all Dave! Go and ruin all my fun! Now I have to go and cancel the order for those restraints and the whip. Um, on second thought, maybe I will just hang on to those. 
And now I am lead to wonder just what in the heck you were looking at that directed you there?!
Not remembering who made the eyes and mouth comment, but skin is a way for things to get into the body also. Otherwise we wouldn’t have nicotine patches or pain medication patches or the other dozen or so out there.
I understand that there are different forms of bacteria, I used Ecoli because it was the first to come to mind. The thing I was trying to say is that they have no idea what those two have been taking, or doing to know what is in their excreations.
It’s human waste, stuff your body is getting rid of, and that cannot be all that good.
Thanks for the mental picture. I am finding it very hard to even imagine balancing on a plank and then trying to go poo.
Punoqllads:
Right, makes sense.
So, then . . . why isn’t this being considered battery? Why can’t these now-shitstained kids press criminal charges?
Ooo, what happened to TinTinker?
They come and go so fast anymore…
Esprix
ahem.
Sweet Merciful Crap
The discrimination continues. Rammstein gets arrested and banned for pulling out a dildo on stage.
The Shower Rangers get invited to be featured on MTV for shitting on people.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. If you have to work that hard to be ‘shocking’ or ‘controversial’…you’re probably neither.
jarbaby