There is nothing more annoying than ordering something to eat and specifically asking for the cooks to leave off a certain item, only to receive your order and find the item on the plate. As people are all different, they obviously each handle the annoyance in very different ways. One gentleman went so far as to handle it in a criminal way. After he ordered his McDonald’s hamburger, he flew off the handle when he found pickles on his burger. The man started yelling at the employees and throwing things off the counter. Police were called to moderate the situation. The man could be facing charges of Harassment.
Harassment Over Pickles in Weld County
The Colorado law definition of Harassment – C.R.S. 18-9-111 – is:
(a) Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise touches a person or subjects him to physical contact; or
(b) In a public place directs obscene language or makes an obscene gesture to or at another person; or
(c) Follows a person in or about a public place; or
(e) Initiates communication with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, telephone network, data network, text message, instant message, computer, computer network, or computer system in a manner intended to harass or threaten bodily injury or property damage, or makes any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal by telephone, computer, computer network, or computer system that is obscene; or
(f) Makes a telephone call or causes a telephone to ring repeatedly, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate conversation; or
(g) Makes repeated communications at inconvenient hours that invade the privacy of another and interfere in the use and enjoyment of another’s home or private residence or other private property; or
(h) Repeatedly insults, taunts, challenges, or makes communications in offensively coarse language to, another in a manner likely to provoke a violent or disorderly response.
Have you been charged with Harassment? Contact the experienced criminal defense lawyers from the O’Malley Law Office to defend you today!
Have you been charged with Harassment? Contact the experienced criminal defense lawyers from the O’Malley Law Office to defend you today!
While all the details were not disclosed in the news article, the man could be charged with Harassment if he had used obscene language in his rant. Yelling alone can be scene as offensively course language, which would be enough to charge this crime. Many times, Harassment is charged in Domestic Violence situations when a couple has been yelling at each other during an argument and one person decides to call the police.
As a class 3 misdemeanor in Greeley, Evans, and Erie, Harassment is punishable by 6 months in the Weld, Morgan, or Logan County Jail. The judge may also impose a fine of up to $750.
If you or someone you love has been charged with Harassment, be smart, exercise your right to remain silent, and contact the affordable criminal defense lawyers from the O’Malley Law Office at 970-616-6009 today. Together, we can protect your future.
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