Woman on bus objects to being told to shut up, so she smashes other woman's head into a window repeatedly, police say

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Jury instructions:

An item that is normally used for innocent purposes can become a dangerous weapon if it is used in a dangerous or potentially dangerous fashion. The law considers an item to be used in a dangerous fashion if it is used in a way that it reasonably appears to be capable of causing serious injury or death to another person. For example, a brick can be a dangerous weapon if it is thrust against someone’s head or a pillow if it is used to suffocate someone.

The instructions also include this note:

To qualify as a dangerous weapon, an item need not be capable of being wielded, possessed or controlled, and may be stationary. Commonwealth v. Sexton, 425 Mass. 146, 152 (1997) (concrete pavement against which victim’s head was repeatedly struck; and collected cases). See also Commonwealth v. McIntosh, 56 Mass. App. Ct. 827, 829 (2002) (windowpane).

And when the jammer cuts off a conversation from someone nearby, or someone who is trying to call for urgent help, or someone just silently surfing the web on their phone, it’s no concern to you, right?

Just suck it up and let them be the only asshole. You’re not better than them by also being an asshole, just in a different way.

I remember riding a quiet and peaceful bus to the Cape several years ago. The bus company requested that riders keep their cell sounds (whether conversations or music, etc.) low enough that it not disturb other riders. What a concept! Be concerned about the people around you!

This one middle age fellow didn't get the idea. So he is blabbing on his cell phone loud enough for even the driver to hear. At one of the regular stops the driver asked the fellow to not be loud enough that he was audible half way through the bus. The fellow responded with something to the effect he is a doctor and these are important calls.

Bull Twaddle. Excuse as solid as anything Voldemort-45 could come up with.

Public transportation is barely tolerable on a good day. When a person needs to yammer on their cell phone, watch a video or listen to music without ear buds that don't bleed, etc., then that person becomes part of the problem of public transportation.

Ever since Sony, etc. created portable cassette players, and the evolutionary descendants, public transportation has been degraded beyond the infrastructural degradations by riders who act as though buses, subways, etc. are extension of their living rooms.

Take that, normal people! That’ll show you to ask drunken, surly maniacs to settle down.

Nobody deserves a safe ride.

The drunken riders violence was wrong. But being loud? She had as much right to be annoying as the rider who had to yammer on a cell phone in a public place.

In other words, both were in the wrong as far being annoying is concerned. I do enjoy listening to folks who read aloud or in other ways add to the joyful noise of public transportation - WITHOUT using an electronic device. Given the choice between the yammering of someone about who boyfriend slept with whose whatever, or hearing someone recite from Shakespeare's poems, I'll choose Shakespear 100% of the time.

In liue of Shakespeare, I'll happily accept the general sounds that are inevitable - WITHOUT the addition of electronics.