Diva
04-08-02, 06:28AM
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020405/od_nm/teargas_dc_1&printer=1)) - A French court convicted a mother of two of premeditated armed violence after she tried out her new teargas canister on an innocent shopper to see if it worked, police said on Friday.
Disguised in dark glasses and a hat, the unnamed 35-year-old sprayed a woman shopper who had just returned to her car in a supermarket car park.
Unimpressed by the defendant's plea that she had merely wanted to try out the device, the court in the northeast town of Saverne gave her a four-month suspended sentence.
Police said that, during questioning, the woman said she was disappointed with her purchase because the person she sprayed had been able to thrash about and scare her by shouting.
This kind of callousness chills me to the bone. The four month suspended sentence is outrageous. I don't believe jail is the correct sentence, either. What about you? Which sentence should she get?
Disguised in dark glasses and a hat, the unnamed 35-year-old sprayed a woman shopper who had just returned to her car in a supermarket car park.
Unimpressed by the defendant's plea that she had merely wanted to try out the device, the court in the northeast town of Saverne gave her a four-month suspended sentence.
Police said that, during questioning, the woman said she was disappointed with her purchase because the person she sprayed had been able to thrash about and scare her by shouting.
This kind of callousness chills me to the bone. The four month suspended sentence is outrageous. I don't believe jail is the correct sentence, either. What about you? Which sentence should she get?