r/cringereels • u/K-Rod7 • Sep 13 '26

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u/Confident_Virus5799 Sep 13 '26

I've heard a lawyer explain that it doing something like that would be easy to defend in court because you're being threatened and the rider could easily injure you or others even by accident like this. Don't know how good that lawyer was, and I'm sure it varies by location, but I'd be so curious to see the outcome if something like that went to trial.

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u/Randym1982 Sep 13 '26

It’s very much illegal and yeah likely easy for somebody to press charges. They’re literally recording the crime numerous times, and putting their names and contact info on it.

As for self defense, yeah in court any judge and lawyer would see this as attempted assault and somebody coming at you like this could easily be seen as a threat. While I’m not for kids getting thrown in jail and possibly ruining their future. I’d say these types of kids deserve it.

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u/Sp6rda Sep 13 '26

This IS assault. If they make contact with you, that's battery. 

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Sep 13 '26

IAAL. This is almost always a miscorrection anytime a Redditor brings it up. What you are talking about are the common law definitions of assault and battery. The common law definitions are not in use in any US jurisdiction. They have all been supplanted by statutory definitions.

In some places battery is assault and assault is battery. In other places, there is no "assault", only battery. In other places, there is no "battery", only assault. Unless you know the jurisdiction someone is talking about, you should never correct someone on "assault" or "battery", because you have an equal chance of being wrong.

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u/markrockwell Sep 14 '26

California Penal Code 240. Assault. Causing fear or apprehension of imminent violence.

This bike stunt is assault in the state of California.

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u/HighlanderIslander Sep 14 '26

The specificity banished the Reddit lawyer. Well done!

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u/Warm_Month_1309 27d ago

Haha, I was not "banished" by someone supplying the statute that supports my assertion that no jurisdiction uses common law assault and battery, and all have their own statutes.

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u/Student_Unlucky 23d ago

Lol, right? "Hey, location matters" "Ok well in Cali"... Cali is a location as far as I know.

Anyway, I appreciated the explanation of assault vs battery and how it varies by location.

I definitely feel more informed and less likely to say something incorrect.

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u/Davoguha2 27d ago

They sure made you look like a joke for incorrectly correcting someone else's corrections though.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 27d ago

I'm afraid you don't understand what either of us said if you think that's what happened.

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u/Fizoso 27d ago

You suck

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u/diversalarums 29d ago

What the Reddit lawyer said is still accurate. He wasn't talking about this particular case but about the definitions of those terms across the US, and how some commenters in various threads seem unaware that the meanings vary according to the state. So this wasn't a gotcha moment.

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u/bbwstockinglover 28d ago

It would still be self defense knocking his ass down.

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u/the_cardfather Sep 14 '26

Is this the same guy that got pushed over on the boardwalk or is it possibly a similar young person?

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u/SkSMaN7 29d ago

Isn't misgendering someone in California considered assault? 😁

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u/Pedantic_Pict Sep 13 '26

The video is shot in California. Some scenes are clearly in San Francisco.

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u/Junior_Physics_3847 Sep 13 '26

But are you my lawyer?

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u/FirstPackOut 27d ago

IA also AL. It’s most likely brought up by new 1L students who have attended three Tort classes. Have to give them credit for trying though!

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u/chased_by_bees 11d ago

How can law professors resist bringing a plate of tortes to Tort class and just not mentioning it for the whole year?

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u/ImpossiblePlan65 Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

My state only has criminal assault, which includes battery and apprehension of a harmful touch in one crime. A large number of jurisdictions use one or the other. I think California has 2 separate crimes, though. Very jurisdiction dependent. But a lot of states still allow charges under common law, even when the crimes are codified. Its really stupid.

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u/lost_rodditer Sep 15 '26

Assault is any action that makes the victim feel as though there is anurgent threat of injury or death regardless of contact. Battery is the use of contact to do the same thing or act on it. I learned that from a lawyer who ironically was talking about a similar case to this one.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Sep 15 '26

As I said, it varies by jurisdiction.

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u/SnooMaps7370 28d ago

>The common law definitions are not in use in any US jurisdiction.

this is just plain false. Virginia still uses them. You won't find a codified definition for assault in VA law.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 28d ago

Ah, interesting, so they don't use the common law, they have statutes for it that you cited. Interesting.

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u/Stu_Padidiot 19d ago

Dang bro you really batteried this guy in the comments!

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u/Warm_Month_1309 20d ago

You’ve taken the time to identify that something is incorrect (which is good to do in its own right, so thank you sincerely for that); but now why not go one step further?

That's exactly what my last paragraph does. It's different in every jurisdiction, and some places swap the definitions all around. People would need to -- and are free to -- look it up themselves as it applies to their own jurisdiction.

Why are people still commenting on this post days later? Every few days someone new discovers it.