... it was funny to me....

She kicked a police officer in the face, cops say. Then she had to relieve herself.

BY JEREMY HARTLEY

STATE COLLEGE, PA - A Penn State student faces felony and misdemeanor charges after allegedly fighting with officers over the weekend while intoxicated.

According to the criminal complaint filed by Penn State police, at about 2 a.m. Sunday, an officer observed a female, identified as Kaitlyn J. Testen, 18, of Sayre, stumbling while being assisted by a male along the north side of Haller Hall on campus. The male was reportedly holding her up and preventing her from falling.

The officer approached Testen and the man near Beaver Hall, police said, where Testen attempted to walk away when the officer exited his vehicle. The officer requested they both stop and speak with him regarding their behavior.

Testen was unable to walk away and sat on the curb, police said. While attempting to identify the man, he reportedly fled the scene. Additional officers were requested for assistance in locating him.

While struggling with the man, police said, Testen reportedly attempted to leave the area and refused to identify herself. She was handcuffed and placed on the curb.

University Ambulance Service was requested to evaluate her, police said, as she allegedly had a strong odor of alcohol and slurred speech. She reportedly refused to cooperate with police or EMS and actively resisted being placed on a stretcher.

While on the stretcher, police said, she was told if she continued to kick, she would be placed in jail. Testen broke her feet free and reportedly kicked one officer in the face and a second officer in the arm and hand.

She was placed in a police vehicle where she continued to kick at officers and the vehicle windows, police said. While at the university police station, she allegedly removed her shorts and urinated on an interview room floor.

She was arraigned Sunday before District Judge Kelley Gillette-Walker, according to court documents, and charged with felony counts of aggravated assault, misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct and summary counts of public drunkenness, purchase of alcohol by a minor and criminal mischief. Straight bail was set at $50,000.

A preliminary hearing is slated for May 3.

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vreihen said:

ROTFLMAO @ Penn State University, for naming a dorm building Beaver Hall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Star Trek inspired licence plate deemed offensive in Manitoba

Nick Troller's two-year-old "ASIMIL8" licence plate is being taken after some people felt it was offensive towards indigenous people.

Josh Dehaas, CTVNews.ca Writer
Published Thursday, April 27, 2017 8:45PM EDT
Last Updated Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:02PM EDT

Manitoba’s public insurance company has revoked a Star Trek inspired custom licence plate after receiving complaints that it’s offensive. Nick Troller’s two-year-old plate reads “ASIMIL8.”

Troller keeps it inside a licence plate holder that says: “WE ARE THE BORG. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.” He says Trekkies will recognize that it’s a reference to the cyborg villains who bellowed “you will be assimilated” on various Star Trek series and movies.

He says strangers have complimented him on the plate and taken photos. “I thought it was funny,” he said.

But Troller got a phone call Wednesday from someone at Manitoba Public Insurance, who he says told him two people had complained that the word “assimilate” is offensive to indigenous people.

The dictionary definitions of assimilate include “to absorb into the cultural tradition of a population or group” and “to take into the mind and thoroughly understand.”

Troller disagrees that it’s offensive.

On Thursday, he was served with a letter that states: “…it has been brought to the attention of this office that the personalized plate ASIMIL8 is considered offensive.” The letter demanded that he “surrender” the plate immediately.

The letter says Troller can either get a new personalized plate or a refund on the $100 charge.

“But that’s not the point,” he says. “We’ve become way too sensitive. You can’t say anything anymore to anybody.”

Ry Moran, from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, is among those who agree with MPI that the word “assimilate” is too offensive to be on a licence plate.

“For basically the entirety of this country’s history, indigenous peoples have been forcibly assimilated through really extremely destructive means and ways,” he said.

Moran added that “words like that, meant or not, have an actual impact on many people.”

MPI’s policy states that “plates cannot contain a slogan that could be considered offensive.” MPI said in a statement that it takes such complaints “very seriously” and will investigate why the plate was approved in the first place.

Licence plates are property of the Crown and there is no appeal process.

Troller’s situation is reminiscent of a controversy in Nova Scotia, where a man named Lorne Grabher’s personalized GRABHER plate was revoked after a complaint that it was offensive to women.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms said earlier this month that it plans to sue the Nova Scotia government over the revocation, which it sees as an infringement on freedom of expression.

The JCCF’s John Carpay said the GRABHER licence plate revocation is part of a wider trend in Canadian society.

"Canadians are becoming increasingly less tolerant of free expression," he said. "You have more and more people who believe that they have a legal right to go through life without seeing or without hearing things they find to be offensive."

With a report from CTV Winnipeg’s Jon Hendricks and files from The Canadian Press

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vreihen said:

No sense of humor in those pesky Canucks? Maybe we *should* build a northern wall as well!!!!!

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Uwe said:

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The Mighty Dodge lives again!!! The upgraded #4 injector line came in from Cummins today, and it took about 1/2 hour to install in the drizzle outside. Still need to take it for a test romp and clear the low rail pressure MIL, but it started up fine once the rail re-pressurized and doesn't appear to be leaking.

Oh, and before Jack calls BS that I did it myself since I didn't call him for help, this is after three rounds of goop hand cleaner:

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