landsurfer wrote:The utility cyclist wrote:Fear for ones safety even if just in the mind is an assault under UK law, it is very explicit about this and is referred to as a common assault. On the high street this could possibly be at the least a public order offence where someone is threatened/feeling fearful or worse.
Or are you of the opinion that striking fear of death or serious injury is all okay. just curious? If someone is swinging a baseball bat within inches of your head for 15 seconds whilst you go about your business down the street how would you/police react, how is that any different to using a motorvehicle which can and does do much worse damage than a baseball bat?
So you didn't actually read my post ?
Transient Assault describes all the points you have made.
Before you post maybe you should actually read the post you are commenting on.
Why didn't you ? Just curious......
So is an assault an assault or not? I read what you wrote and it makes no sense, you were basically trying to say that the OP hadn't being assaulted,
Your description "The crashing airplane nearly hit the school full of children" ... it didn't.
The train nearly hit the bus full of pensioners, it didn't" isn't a description of an assault unless there was a deliberate act on the part of the pilot or train driver, in both instances to think that an assault occured would be fantastical.
Maybe it's you who maybe needs to understand what an assault actually means and then write after you've had a think on the post you are commenting on?