This is disgusting.

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http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/UK/11/09/latvia.charles/index.html

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Jesus God.

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I clicked on the thread, expecting something about people eating dogs, or some hideous tale of facial injury or massive, pulsating, pustules.

  This is worse. Woman hits member of foreign royalty with flowers-Charles is uninjured. Woman faces up to 16 years in prison. This one of those things, that if I think about too long, will cause my head to actually explode.
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I had a bad feeling about this last night when I saw that the President Vike-Freiberga said she was obviously mentally ill.

I hope that this just fizzels out after he leaves but wow FUBAR or what?

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Gimme a break. :rolleyes:

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The original article says the girl hit Chuckie with either a carnation or a rose. If it was a rose, a harsh penalty is certainly in order, since those thorns could be a deadly weapon. :rolleyes:

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Hahaha! Poor girl being taken away tho…well, every cause needs a martyr.

Down with NATO! Down with the war in Afghanistan! Whoo!

P.S. I don’t really think anyone has died from a slap in the face.

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“P.S. I don’t really think anyone has died from a slap in the face.”

—Obviously, Jell, you have never been slapped in the face by ME.

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While I sure hope she doesn’t get 16 years in prison and the “endangering the life of a foreign dignitary” charge sounds trumped-up and hokey as all hell, I don’t think she should be walking away from this thing 100% without punishment, either. No, I’m not claiming annoyine has said that thus far, but I’m getting the impression that some of you think that she was justified in doing what she did.

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I do know how to spell “anyone”. I just like to use some variations sometimes, y’know, to spice things up.

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The article says:

See, according to Article 87 of the Latvian Law Code it’s not just endagering his life that is the issue, but also his health. Perhaps Charlie has allergies. Perhaps this incident caused his Royal Nose to run, and his Royal Eyes to water and his Royal Throat to feel all scratchy. I expect now you’ll see this whole incident in a different light. Fifteen years is a small price to pay for the soiling of the Royal Hanky.

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      • It doesn’t say she got 15 years, it says she can get up to 15 years. Her act probably qualifies as assault even by first-world standards: go up to a cop and bat them in the face with some flowers and see what happens. As dumb as it is to throw her in jail, it was just as dumb for her to do it in the first place.
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  • It’s also quite telling that someone can get so close to Chas… -not that he’s ordering the military around or anything, but still… - MC
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500 years ago she would have been clubbed to death right there in the street and her head paraded through town as the head of traitor. Yes, 15 years in jail seems a bit much, but the threatened sentence has to act as a deterant to other ‘flower-smackers’ out there. Remember that the only FACES 15 years. It would take one hard-hearted SOB to actually deliver the sentence to a 16 year old. Prince Charles should, after sentencing, pardon her for the incident, mentally ill or not (the girl not Prince Charles).

my $.02

Gam

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Pardon me if I’m wrong about this, but I gather that this is Latvia’s law, and that Prince Charles has no say in the matter.

Of course, he should be magnanimous and ask Latvia to go easy on her, but I don’t think we can blame him for Latvia’s stupid application of the law to this situation.

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I say throw the book at the little anarchist! There could have been a bee in those flowers…a VICIOUS KILLER BEE EVEN! That bee could have stung the royal nose and lord knows that thing does not need to be any bigger than it already is! There might have been a creepy crawler in those flowers. Maybe his royal hinney is afraid of creepy crawlers and would have had a traumatic experience which might scar him emotionally for life. We cannot have an heir to the throne of an ally such as Great Britain to be emotionally scarred. Why he might ascend to the throne and decide, in his emotionally scarred state, to behead the PM or something! She DESERVES to be put away for life!

OK, time to go have another beer!

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Great. Now I have the Velvet Underground stuck in my head:

I predict that if she spends any time in jail, there will be a rash of flower-bombings throughout the UK.

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News item:

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matt, that’s funny, that’s very good.

BTW, this girl should study harder in Poly-Sci - Prince Charles is hardly an influencial figure in British Government, he’s more like a figure-head. British dopers will no doubt correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe the Royal Family does a whole lot more than wave and keep the palace nice.

Now if she is truly against her country joining [whatever frickin organization] she should really be protesting her overnment, and her president, not some harmless price, with cute floppy ears. Throw the book at her, many books - sentence her to more reading before acting out.

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Sometime in the mid-90s, Chuck was giving a speech and someone ran up and pointed a fake or non-functional gun at him. This was outdoors, and the nut got right up on him before security intervened. Whoever it was said he was “making a statement” or some jazz like that, and didn’t intend any harm. Whatever: he got life in prison. I thought at the time, that security for the royal family had just gotten a wake-up call, and hoped that the PM’s guards were more on their game than that.

Also, you probably remember the incident back in the 80s where Zsa Zsa Gabor slapped an LAPD officer, and was jailed and fined a large chunk of change. Some people said, “Oh, yeah, like she could really hurt them!”, but I didn’t think it was something to be shrugged off. LAPD was getting enough disrespect (although often deservedly) without suspects taunting them with “You can’t even stand up to an old society dame!”