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Spazito

(54,405 posts)
Tue Apr 25, 2023, 02:04 PM Apr 2023

B.C. woman found guilty of assault after coughing at grocery store employee in early days of pandemi

A woman who coughed at a Vancouver Island grocery store employee during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic has been found guilty of assault by a judge in British Columbia.

The incident occurred at a Save On Foods in Campbell River, B.C., on April 24, 2020, when social-distancing measures had been mandated by provincial public health officials.

Judge Barbara Flewelling found Kimberly Woolman guilty of two counts of assault: one for the coughing incident, and the other for ramming a shopping cart into the store's assistant manager. Woolman was also found guilty of causing a disturbance.

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Poulton said she was maintaining social distancing of two metres behind Woolman when Woolman suddenly stopped, shortening the distance between them by about half, and forcibly coughed twice at Poulton's face.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/campbell-river-covid-cougher-1.6821422

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B.C. woman found guilty of assault after coughing at grocery store employee in early days of pandemi (Original Post) Spazito Apr 2023 OP
I'm glad to see that at least Canada punishes their deplorables Walleye Apr 2023 #1
Florida woman went to jail for 30 days. barbtries Apr 2023 #6
Good, she definitely deserved to be locked up. Don't think she has learned her lesson Walleye Apr 2023 #7
she's not going to. barbtries Apr 2023 #9
Hope she's sentenced to the maximum. nt Laffy Kat Apr 2023 #2
Good. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2023 #3
That happened to me. Silver Gaia Apr 2023 #4
Geez, that's appalling... Spazito Apr 2023 #5
Good! I hate to say it but that is my home town where I was born and where I graduated Bev54 Apr 2023 #8
Spitting on grocery store produce . keithbvadu2 Apr 2023 #10
Certainly did deserve it, and I hope that the folks called the police on him too, for endangering SWBTATTReg Apr 2023 #11

barbtries

(29,814 posts)
6. Florida woman went to jail for 30 days.
Tue Apr 25, 2023, 03:58 PM
Apr 2023

She was all ready to be sentenced to probation but her statement at the sentencing was so lame the judge put her in jail. She could not bring herself to express remorse, but went on and on about how bad it had been for her and her children.



I cannot find the full sentencing video, but watched it at the time. It was something to watch this Karen literally talk herself into going to jail.

barbtries

(29,814 posts)
9. she's not going to.
Tue Apr 25, 2023, 04:28 PM
Apr 2023

a very entitled woman living her life in a bubble. though the judge was very good at explaining why she was going to jail. she's too dense and full of herself to hear and appreciate what he said. all around, a not so good person.

Silver Gaia

(4,884 posts)
4. That happened to me.
Tue Apr 25, 2023, 02:28 PM
Apr 2023

An unmasked idiot coughed on me in a Target store at a time when masks were mandated. She had worn a bandana into the store, then pulled it down like a neck scarf. She also called me a "f*ckin' b*tch." Sure wish management had caught her and had her arrested for assault because it certainly was exactly that.

Bev54

(11,917 posts)
8. Good! I hate to say it but that is my home town where I was born and where I graduated
Tue Apr 25, 2023, 04:08 PM
Apr 2023

although we lived in a couple other communities in-between. I have a sister and a brother who still live in the area and they too are anti-vax. I was reading hoping I wouldn't see my sister's name, because we have not spoken to each other for a couple of years, but I know she refused to wear a mask anywhere.

keithbvadu2

(40,169 posts)
10. Spitting on grocery store produce .
Tue Apr 25, 2023, 04:58 PM
Apr 2023

Spitting on grocery store produce .

He got b_tch-slapped.

He deserved it.

SWBTATTReg

(24,140 posts)
11. Certainly did deserve it, and I hope that the folks called the police on him too, for endangering
Tue Apr 25, 2023, 05:24 PM
Apr 2023

everyone around or later who may have later touched the contaminated produce later. The clerk is a hero.

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