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'Don't ever cough in the direction of a cop either!'

post #1 of 15
9/27/07 at 4:10pm
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http://www.wxii12.com/news/14217423/detail.html

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Cold Encounter: Officer Says Man Coughed In His Face

POSTED: 10:31 am EDT September 27, 2007

MORRISVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities said Thursday they have charged a man with assault on a government official after an officer said the man coughed into his face during a traffic stop.

Morrisville Officer Chris Gill said in his report that Kent Kauffman looked into his eyes before "hacking" in his face three times.

Kauffman said he did cough from the window of his minivan but did so toward Gill's waist.

"He says I coughed in his face," Kauffman told The News & Observer of Raleigh. "But that would only work if he had a 4-foot-long face."

Kauffman told the paper that Gill cuffed him and threw him into the side of the patrol car.

"It knocked the wind out of me," he said.

Kauffman said he developed a cough after his dog died last week.

Gill pulled Kauffman over Tuesday for not wearing a seat belt.

Kauffman now faces a misdemeanor charge and could spend up to 60 days in jail if he's convicted in a Wake County courtroom.
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post #2 of 15
9/27/07 at 4:30pm
...Lucky he didn't blow his pope's nose.
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post #3 of 15
9/27/07 at 5:18pm
It's tough to lose a dog, they are truly a member of the family.
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post #4 of 15
9/27/07 at 6:39pm
Are cops really this desperate to get people into cuffs? Can't they hire a prostitute like a normal person?
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post #5 of 15
9/27/07 at 9:57pm
Something about this makes me wish the guy had swine flu.
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post #6 of 15
9/27/07 at 10:16pm
"But that would only work if he had a 4-foot-long face."
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post #7 of 15
9/27/07 at 10:50pm
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Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata
"But that would only work if he had a 4-foot-long face."
I was taken aback by that statement as well. It's as though he's tried it on his 4-foot face neighbor this weekend.
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post #8 of 15
9/27/07 at 11:12pm
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Originally Posted by stump
I was taken aback by that statement as well. It's as though he's tried it on his 4-foot face neighbor this weekend.
I think he meant that he was at the cop's waist level, so unless his face extended from his neck down to his waist, he couldn't have coughed into his face.
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post #9 of 15
9/27/07 at 11:15pm
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Originally Posted by Belethedheliel
I think he meant that he was at the cop's waist level, so unless his face extended from his neck down to his waist, he couldn't have coughed into his face.
No, I think he was coughing into his child's four-foot face before he coughed at the cop.
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post #10 of 15
9/30/07 at 9:32am
"Sorry officer, but if you don't want me to cough, you might try taking your hands off my testicles."
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post #11 of 15
9/30/07 at 12:42pm
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Kauffman said he developed a cough after his dog died last week.
This is just strange sentence. It implies some type of causality, like the dog's dying caused his cough (trauma? the soul of the dog went into his lungs?). I realize that the guy probably mentioned it because it was a major event and he was using it as a reference point, but still, it was a strange way for the article to put it. (And also, the cynic in me says the guy mentioned it hoping for a little bit of sympathy).

It's a ludicrous charge, though, and doesn't warrant a body slam into the car, even if the guy does need to brush up on his manners.
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post #12 of 15
9/30/07 at 12:47pm
Faced into the wind when releasing ashes?
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post #13 of 15
10/2/07 at 1:56pm
I wonder how things will work out. This just seems like a civil suit waiting to happen. Excessive force ring a bell?
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post #14 of 15
10/2/07 at 1:58pm
Last night I got pulled over for not wearing my seatbelt, and while the cop went back to process my info, I started smoking a cigarette. When he came back I accidentally blew smoke in his face, and he was still very cool. Seems I always encounter only the nice cops.
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post #15 of 15
10/2/07 at 2:21pm
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Originally Posted by Owen
Last night I got pulled over for not wearing my seatbelt, and while the cop went back to process my info, I started smoking a cigarette. When he came back I accidentally blew smoke in his face, and he was still very cool. Seems I always encounter only the nice cops.
Just wait. He'll get cancer now and use the dashboard camera to prove you gave it to him.
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