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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,talk.bizarre,misc.legal,alt.flame
Subject: foot puke
Message-ID: <2066@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 88 07:13:45 GMT
References: <229*manis@instr.camosun.bcc.cdn> <6466@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <1540@mipos3.intel.com>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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>In article <229*manis@instr.camosun.bcc.cdn> manis@instr.camosun.bcc.cdn (Vincent Manis) writes:
>>Please let's not get in another dispute about freedom of speech: neither
>>the U.S. Bill of Rights nor the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
>>protects other people's right to puke on my shoes.
>
>I believe the act of "puking on another's shoe" done intentionally constitute a 
>prima facie case of a civil battery (or at least "offensive contact"). You can
>recover quite a bit of punitive damage, pain and suffering award and so
>forth, if you were puked in public and suffered much emotional distress from
>the embarassment.
> 

What if you puked because of a virus you caught from an Amiga ?


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