Wendy Washik was at a neighbourhood barbecue on Sept. 1 when she joined a playful water gun fight with one of her neighbour’s children. As the 58-year-old educational assistant was chasing the child to the front of the home, she said she accidentally sprayed another neighbour with water.
Washik said the neighbour called police and officers arrived at the scene a short time later and charged her with assault with a weapon. She claims police spoke to the neighbour who made the call but asked no one else questions about the incident.
(Monte MacGregor, a Toronto-based criminal defense lawyer, said) “Am I surprised that the charge has been laid? No. But do I recognize that it’s an unfortunate and almost meaningless waste of resources? Yes, because they didn’t interview her, right?” he said.
This is next-level stupidity. The neighbour, the cops… absolute jokes.
If this had happened in my neighbourhood as a kid, the neighbour who called the police would be the target of relentless eggings, TPings, and just general mischief for years to come. Good luck buddy.
I think it should be lower-case “karen” and equally applied to any gender.
It’s Brian. The name for Karen’s was coined by Dane cook, and in the same bit he mentions that “fuckin Brian’s coming” so that’s what I’ve gone with.
As always, ACAB.
Someone overreacted here, but it wasn’t just the police. Who calls the cops over a water gun, for crying out loud?!
If its some rando at the park spraying liquids of unknown origin on strangers, maybe calling the cops is reasonable. Calling the cops on a neighbour at a party for spraying you accidentally while following a child, overreaction. I hope they have any more parties and specifically ban that jerk neighbour’s who called the cops.
The last time I called the police about a car theft, they didn’t even bother to pretend to care. But for this shit they jump
This smells like the dude who called it in is buddies with one of the cops.
Heck as kids my friends (stupidly) shot each other with BB guns, with a 1 pump rule, no adults ever called a cop…let alone a water fight
