http://www.switched.com/2009/10/02/man-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-iphone/ Switched Comments for Man Arrested for Threatening to Shoot iPhone http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/02/man-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-iphone/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/02/man-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-iphone/(A) No person shall knowingly cause another to believe that the offender will cause serious physical harm to the person or property of such other person, such other person's unborn, or a member of the other person's immediate family.

(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of aggravated menacing, a misdmeanor of the first degree.

If you are reporting the whole story, then this charge should be thrown out and the cop investigated. If all he did was express frustration, however extreme, with his iphone and then threaten to destroy it, and then back up his threat to destroy his OWN property by merely showing the tool of destruction (in a nonthreatening way) then he's not guilty of anything other than the failure to disclose his concealed weapon.

Which, btw, those laws need revising anyway.]]>Oct 3rd 2009 1:51AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/02/man-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-iphone/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/02/man-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-iphone/Oct 3rd 2009 7:00AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/02/man-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-iphone/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/02/man-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-iphone/Oct 5th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/02/man-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-iphone/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/02/man-arrested-for-threatening-to-shoot-iphone/
Mark, showing a weapon in public, especially after claiming one has no problem shooting, is a threatening action. He didn't just say he was going to shoot the phone. He actually showed a gun. That is a threatening action. There is no loophole that would allow someone to pull out or flash a weapon and claim to only want to shoot one's own device. Any reasonable person would have immediately bent over backward to appease the person instead due to the threat imposed. If this person had no intention of threatening anyone, he could have said he was going to shoot his phone, not flashed his weapon as to not pose any threat to the employees, gone home, and followed through.

Grizzly, the manager and employee showed proper action. They were dealing with an irate customer who not only threatened to discharge a firearm, but proved he had one on him. Apple employees have been shot. The last time was only three months ago in Virginia. My fiance works at an Apple store where, just a few days ago, a customer had to be removed by security due to the physical threat he was posing to the employees in his anger. When someone is so angry they not only threaten to shoot an electronic but flash the weapon to do it, it is responsible to alert police.

Also, before you talk about others not learning to think for themselves, you need to go back to elementary school and learn such basics as capitalization, punctuation, spelling, etc.. You have at least six errors in your first line alone. One more error could potentially be debated. But perhaps you consider this to be "the ability to think for" yourself.]]>Oct 8th 2009 11:42AM