richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (01/09/88)
>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 ? -- It's too dark in Santa Fe, or something like that. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax, philabs!cadovax, codas!ddsw1} gryphon!richard
ekwok@cadev4.intel.com (Edward C. Kwok) (01/12/88)
In article <2066@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >> >>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 > >What if you puked because of a virus you caught from an Amiga ? > Whether the act was done with intention (i.e. the actor desires the result or the actor possesses knowledge to substantial certainty that the result will follow the act), is a question of fact. In my humble opinion, a virus caught in the course of a natural/counter-natural act with an amiga will result in the filling of a bit-bucket, rather than on the foot of another individual, regardless of the "foot-print" of the other's equipment. Then again, what do I know about this matter, Mr. Sexton?