# That will teach you not to hit my SUV with a golf ball **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 7, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603 "2004-12-07T19:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/1 "2004-12-07T19:30:53Z")
[CNN story](http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/07/boys.hit.ap/index.html) Every time I think I’ve seen the lowest a person can go, someone amazes me. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/2 "2004-12-07T19:44:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Brent Woolbright of the St. Johns County Public Defender’s Office said he was assigned Allen’s case Monday and was trying to get all the facts. > > “I talked to her, and her story is a little different that what was reported,” he said. > > Allen told the court she has mental problems The attacker is already starting to play the victim card. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/3 "2004-12-07T19:53:18Z")
Yes, poor thing. Does anyone really understand what its like to live in this world with an overblown sense of entitlement and poor self control? Gosh, I really feel for her. :rolleyes: This just gives me yet another reason to hate SUVs and their drivers. ---
**Author:** ![RAWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/4 "2004-12-07T19:55:24Z")
Wasn’t this the same woman who complained about the jackhammers disturbing her unborn child… …while smoking a cigarette? Looks the same, anyway. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/5 "2004-12-07T20:04:29Z")
Huh. [Could be](http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/120704/met_17378058.shtml). 😉 > [@](#): > > “She got out of the car and smirked at us and smoked a cigarette,” [Justin Marshman] said. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/6 "2004-12-07T20:11:45Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > This just gives me yet another reason to hate SUVs and their drivers. Yeah, because we know that all SUV drivers are exactly like this person. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/7 "2004-12-07T20:15:23Z")
Is an SUV a free drop or a one shot penalty? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/8 "2004-12-07T20:16:17Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > This just gives me yet another reason to hate SUVs and their drivers. Ah, but the young men were playing with a _golf ball_, the very symbol of right-wing bourgeois repression. What will you do? What will you do? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/9 "2004-12-07T20:25:06Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > This just gives me yet another reason to hate SUVs and their drivers. No matter what she drove she’d likely have done the same… cept for maybe a _Golf._ ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/10 "2004-12-07T20:29:19Z")
I don’t know, the defense might ultimately be able to successfully argue some sort of insanity plea. A person that runs over two teenagers and then doesn’t flee but calmly sits around smoking a cigarette might not be the epitome of mental health or sanity. Sticking around rather than running might suggest that she, well, didn’t know it was wrong. I pray that the 14 year old lives and recovers fully. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/11 "2004-12-07T20:41:33Z")
Insanity defenses almost never work, apart from on TV. If failure to flee became established as evidence, then there would be some pretty perverse incentives. While she is nutty as a fruit cake, from the look of it, I highly doubt she will be found not guilty as a result. On the other hand, some kind of plea involving long term medical treatment might well be in this woman’s future. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/12 "2004-12-07T20:43:03Z")
Or she didn’t care that others thought it was wrong, and knew she’d get caught so didn’t bother to run… There are many nuances that only the people giving her a mental evaulation will see. If Isiah dies, I hope she gets locked up, (prison, mental hospital, somewhere) and never let out at the least. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/13 "2004-12-07T20:57:47Z")
> [@RAWDuke](#): > > Wasn’t this the same woman who complained about the jackhammers disturbing her unborn child… > > …while smoking a cigarette? > > Looks the same, anyway. No, I think her name was Megan or Melissa. Something like that. Good call, though. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/14 "2004-12-07T21:01:38Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Yeah, because we know that all SUV drivers are exactly like this person. :rolleyes: Hey, now, be fair. **Ghanima** just said it gave her another reason to hate SUV drivers. S/He didn’t say it was a _ **good** _ reason. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/15 "2004-12-07T21:08:47Z")
Gah! :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/16 "2004-12-07T21:11:45Z")
> [@villa](#): > > Is an SUV a free drop or a one shot penalty? Some might argue that you get to \*\*deduct \*\*one stroke from your score… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NutMagnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/17 "2004-12-07T21:28:29Z")
What’s also weird is that ostensibly she was upset that the golf ball could have (but didn’t) damage her SUV. She then proceeds to jump the median, and mow down a pole and 2 humans. She is mental. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/18 "2004-12-07T21:43:01Z")
Whether or not she’s crazy, I seriously doubt she’ll “walk” from this, er, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/19 "2004-12-07T21:47:29Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > Ah, but the young men were playing with a _golf ball_, the very symbol of right-wing bourgeois repression. > > What will you do? What will you do? Ooooh, good one. It all depends on whether or not the young men were bouncing the golf ball _ironically_ or not. Of course, the woman could have been driving the SUV ironically, too, in which case we’re back to square one. I guess I’ll just have to wait until all the facts are in before I flip me beret dismissively at either party. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603/20 "2004-12-07T21:58:36Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > This just gives me yet another reason to hate SUVs and their drivers. Did someone forget to water you today? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-will-teach-you-not-to-hit-my-suv-with-a-golf-ball/278603.md?page=2)