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Nasty cough, nasty run-in with the law
MORRISVILLE - When Morrisville police officer Chris Gill handed him a ticket, Kent Kauffman coughed. Next thing Kauffman knew, Gill was charging him with assault on a government official.
Gill contends Kauffman intentionally coughed on him three times. According to Gill's report, Kauffman looked into the officer's eyes before "hacking" in his face, Morrisville spokeswoman Stacie Galloway said Wednesday.
Kauffman acknowledges that he coughed two or three times from the window of his Dodge minivan Tuesday but said it was toward Gill's waist.
"He says I coughed in his face," Kauffman said. "But that would only work if he had a 4-foot-long face."
Kauffman said that Gill cuffed him and threw him into the side of the patrol car, and that he ended up on the ground.
"It knocked the wind out of me," he said. "He kept yelling at me to get up. I told him, 'I can't move, man, I'm sick.' "
Kauffman, an accountant for Accountemps in Chapel Hill, said he developed a cough after his dog, Blair, died of kidney failure last week. He said he was still stricken Tuesday but went to work because he needed the cash.
Kauffman was traveling on McCrimmon Parkway just after 8 a.m. when Gill pulled him over for not wearing a seat belt. Gill charged Kauffman with a Class misdemeanor. If convicted, he could spend up to 60 days in jail.
Webster's dictionary says that to cough means to expel air suddenly and noisily from the lungs through the glottis, either as the result of an involuntary muscular spasm in the throat or to clear the air passages. A Wake County judge will decide the intent behind Kauffman's cough.
- Is there a video?
MORRISVILLE - When Morrisville police officer Chris Gill handed him a ticket, Kent Kauffman coughed. Next thing Kauffman knew, Gill was charging him with assault on a government official.
Gill contends Kauffman intentionally coughed on him three times. According to Gill's report, Kauffman looked into the officer's eyes before "hacking" in his face, Morrisville spokeswoman Stacie Galloway said Wednesday.
Kauffman acknowledges that he coughed two or three times from the window of his Dodge minivan Tuesday but said it was toward Gill's waist.
"He says I coughed in his face," Kauffman said. "But that would only work if he had a 4-foot-long face."
Kauffman said that Gill cuffed him and threw him into the side of the patrol car, and that he ended up on the ground.
"It knocked the wind out of me," he said. "He kept yelling at me to get up. I told him, 'I can't move, man, I'm sick.' "
Kauffman, an accountant for Accountemps in Chapel Hill, said he developed a cough after his dog, Blair, died of kidney failure last week. He said he was still stricken Tuesday but went to work because he needed the cash.
Kauffman was traveling on McCrimmon Parkway just after 8 a.m. when Gill pulled him over for not wearing a seat belt. Gill charged Kauffman with a Class misdemeanor. If convicted, he could spend up to 60 days in jail.
Webster's dictionary says that to cough means to expel air suddenly and noisily from the lungs through the glottis, either as the result of an involuntary muscular spasm in the throat or to clear the air passages. A Wake County judge will decide the intent behind Kauffman's cough.
- Is there a video?
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Thanks for the generous giveaway. I'm in! 0 -
60 days in jail for not wearing a seatbelt? WTH? 0 -
Kauffman..for coughing. Now that there's funny.[;)] 0 -
"Assault with intent to expectorate" ??
Doug0 -
i would have sheet all over his back seat, even if i had to drop a load in my pants
but, if he did it blatantly to me he may have been injured0 -
Why should we expect any different? A traveler moving down the highway at or below the speed limit in an up-to-date registered vehicle adhering to all moving vehicle requirements being operated in a safe manner.
Not buckled up! What a danger to other motorist! I hope the idiot traffic cop is laughed out of court.0 -
Sounds like my old girlfriend.
Pushy pushy pushy. I finally had to tell her, "No. for the tenth time, I do NOT want a breath mint!"0 -
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
i would have sheet all over his back seat, even if i had to drop a load in my pantsBad plan.
The cop doesn't have to deal with it himself...
You'd be told to clean it up, but if you refused it would be cleaned up by trustees at the jail.
Now the bad part...
The trustees that you made clean up your mess are very possibly the same people who'll be delivering your meals to your cell and they don't have jailers looking over their shoulder at all times. Enjoy. [;)]0 -
When I was a teenager, I once had a cop who wanted to bust me for DWI, call my Dad to come get me instead. Because I had puked all over MYSELF and he didn't want me in his car.[:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Txs
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
i would have sheet all over his back seat, even if i had to drop a load in my pantsBad plan.
The cop doesn't have to deal with it himself...
You'd be told to clean it up, but if you refused it would be cleaned up by trustees at the jail.
Now the bad part...
The trustees that you made clean up your mess are very possibly the same people who'll be delivering your meals to your cell and they don't have jailers looking over their shoulder at all times. Enjoy. [;)]
yeah but he would still be in the car while transporting me, and around here you typically go to county, and their not cleaning a city cops car0 -
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
yeah but he would still be in the car while transporting me, and around here you typically go to county, and their not cleaning a city cops carOur county trustees do.
Reasoning is that if the prisoner is going into county they're getting the fine money, so he's actually their's and we're just transporting. Besides, trustee labor doesn't cost them a cent.0
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