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Bubble Bust: Toronto Officer Claims Assault When Bubble Touches Him

We have seen police charge everything from flatulence to a hug to a pillow attack as assault. However, this Toronto officer tells a young woman that if one of her bubbles touches his uniform, he will arrest her for assault. She is later shown being arrested.

What is most striking is that there is no report of this officer being suspended for such adolescent and unprofessional conduct. Toronto police appear to agree that bubble assault is a valid charge.

We have seen a man arrested for blowing a bubble in court but not as an act of assault.

148 thoughts on “Bubble Bust: Toronto Officer Claims Assault When Bubble Touches Him”

  1. A little something called “common sense”. If she’s placing the wand to her mouth, there’s no toxins unless she’s suicidal. If this was an effective way to attack, we’d be seeing a lot more “suicide bubblers” as everyone looks for bombs but no one looks for bubbles. As to her bodily fluids? Unless he was eating the bubbles (like I’m sure he does in the bathtub) or getting them in his eyes (as the mouth and eyes have the most permeable membranes), the prospect of transference is literally astronomical. Too much spittle would disrupt the bubble’s surface tension and if she had something that was communicable in an aerosol manner, all she’d have to do is breathe on him, bypassing the bubbly middle man altogether.

    If this guy had apprehension? It certainly wasn’t reasonable. Which shows he’s a moron in addition to being a jackass.

  2. To extend the theoretical debate, how does the officer know it was JUST Bubbles? Could be mixed in with obnoxious bodily substances or even worse!

  3. By the way Hank, I suppose that in that famous picture from 1967 of a young woman protester at the Pentagon putting a daisy in the gun barrel of a cop it constituted assault and merited her being shot instead of tolerated.

    Hmmm? Just how far are you willing to go to enforce that “respect” you so clearly crave, jackboot?

  4. Let me get this straight. (To be read in the voice of Ren Hoek)

    Bio-hazard. Acid Bubbles. Respect for Authority.

    As to the first two, neither of you nitwits 1) have ever blown bubbles apparently or know 2) know jackshit about weaponized bio-agents or 3) the physics of blowing a bubble.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_bubble

    There’s a reason troops aren’t armed with bubble guns. They suck as a delivery mechanism for anything not likely to kill the user as well.

    And Hank, Hank, Hank . . . respect for authority is not OWED. It’s EARNED, Silly Rabbit. Just like any respect. And it’s not earned by being an oversensitive controlling dick to a young woman who has done no actual harm. But you keep on blindly respectin’ away there, Capt. Authoritarian! You’re just the kind of followers Nazis love and need. Now do as you’re told.

  5. Sensitivity training is in order for this child. The Officer is always right.

    Just ask the local sheriff’s department…..

    Forest Co. Sheriff’s Department Investigation
    Submitted: 07/13/2010

    CRANDON – Unanswered questions tonight into why drunken driving tickets were voided at a local sheriff’s department.

    http://www.wjfw.com/stories.html?sku=20100713170356

  6. If the bubble liquid was only detergent with water, one may assume it is harmless. WHAT IF the solution had a toxic element in it like acid and it burst on the human flesh?

  7. Those must have been the infamous “Cop Killer Bubbles” we’ve heard so much about.

    This cop says he “Collects Human Garbage”, and is obviously the Centerpiece of his own “Human Garbage Collection.”

    I spent 20 years in service to others and never once did the idea that the people I served were Human Garbage. Maybe this servant of the public should be confined to refuse collection only and his dealings with people he serves be reduced to picking up their refuse.

  8. The cop was totally within his right. After being warned, and herself promising not to do it again, she went and blew bubbles on another cop. She was adamant to be obnoxious and disrespectful. She learned a quick lesson. Lets hope that lesson stays with her. Too many kids these days have no respect for authority, and this starts with them disrespecting their parents, and parents not putting their foot down, because they can’t or won’t punish an unruly or rude child!

  9. cops can take a bullet but they can take a bubble? how horrible that this girl has to go trough the legal trouble and money? she never touched the cop wind could have carried it to the cop. this should have never have happened. everyone loves firefighters not everyone likes cops.

  10. Megyn,
    Can you say BIO-Hazard? My I spit on you in the form of a “bubble” and contaminate you with various diseases? TB, hepatitis and others are easly transmitted. He warned her numerous times and she chose her own path. Just because she was a free spirit, jumping around without a care in the world, the cop has to worry about not only himself but his family. KUDOS to the cop.
    Hank

  11. Why are you even covering this as it happened in a foreign country which has different laws than we do?

  12. Incredible. I am doubly ashamed because Toronto is where most of my cousins live. I’ll have to email them all about this “bubble tantamount to Anthrax” curiosity.

    In Chicago, all of the cops with whom I’ve come into contact act like Nazis. They’re threatening, humorless, and often will not allow you to even open your mouth to politely explain something, which is very dangerous, I think. In contrast, cops in Gary, Indiana (ones I’ve met in Miller Beach) are incredibly nice; kind of like Andy Taylor: “Well, just be careful next time, and have a good day.”

  13. “Human Garbage” Oh my. Does Toronto have psychological screenings before they give someone a badge? This guy is a sociopath.

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  17. sorry Mike A … I can’t seem to get those smile things right

    fickle fan 😉

  18. too bad they weren’t in oakland. maybe dick could be one of the 10%ers

  19. Mike Appleton

    Buddha, I ditto FFLEO’s comments. Welk was a virtual bubbles brigade. Also, I had a crush on one of the Lennon Sisters when I was ten, but I don’t remember which one.

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    Speaking for all female vocalist everywhere … you are a fickle fan;)

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