House
Internet First
Throwing meals at individuals has led to severe…
Legal Justice
Throwing meals at individuals has led to severe legal expenses for some
By Kevin Davis
August 29, 2025, 11:00 am CDT
Posters of an individual throwing a sandwich are pictured alongside H Road on Aug. 17 in Washington. (AP Photograph/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Whereas federal prosecutors did not get a felony indictment in opposition to a person for throwing a sandwich at a regulation enforcement officer in Washington, D.C., (He was later charged with a misdemeanor) individuals have confronted severe penalties for hurling meals.
• In Ohio in 2023, a lady was sentenced to a month in jail, together with two months working a quick meals job, after pleading responsible to throwing a bowl of scorching meals within the face of a Chipotle employee. Rosemary Hayne was captured on video throwing meals on the employee at shut vary. Hayne, 39, and a mom of 4, pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor assault cost. Municipal Courtroom Choose Timothy Gilligan supplied her a alternative: 90 days in jail or 30 days, plus 60 days working in a quick meals job.
• Final yr in Clearwater, Florida, a person was charged with home battery for throwing items of hen at his sister. Khanye Edrayieze Medley, 20, and his sister “had been in a verbal altercation when the defendant grabbed a bag of hen from the sufferer and started to throw items of Church’s Rooster at her,” in keeping with the police report. “One piece of fried hen hit the sufferer within the again and left particles of meals on her shoulders.” The person instructed police “he did this as a result of he had not eaten and didn’t need the piece of hen the sufferer supplied him, so he turned upset.”
• In 2008, a person ran as much as Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas and hit him within the face with a pie throughout an Independence Day parade. Matthew Manning, 23, pleaded responsible to disorderly conduct. He was sentenced to spend 5 days on a piece crew and apologized. Manning was dressed as Santa Claus through the parade in Mt. Pelier, and hit the govenor with a pie earlier than being tackled.
• In 2010, 4 center faculty college students in Valparaiso, Indiana, had been arrested on battery expenses for beginning a meals battle within the cafeteria on the final day of faculty. The boys, all 14, had been launched to their mother and father.
• In Greenville, South Carolina, in 2022, police charged a person with third-degree assault and battery after a number of individuals reported being hit with whipped cream pies. Andre Eugene Moore-Gerald, 22, was recognized by way of surveillance video footage in addition to YouTube movies he created. “A girl was strolling on the sidewalk, pushing her little one in a stroller, when the pictured suspect hit her within the face with a plate of whipped cream,” police stated. “There have been a number of incidents of this occurring as we speak.”
• A teenage woman in Chicago was charged in 2023 with throwing meals at a Chicago Transit Authority worker. The woman, 17, started arguing with a CTA worker on a bus, police stated. When the argument escalated, the woman threw meals on the 60-year-old employee, in keeping with police. She was charged with aggravated battery of a transit worker.
Write a letter to the editor, share a narrative tip or replace, or report an error.
