While I am glad she was able to shield her child, pull her gun, load it and chase the guy off, was she within the law as it is written? We have had several people on here detained under RCW 9.41.270. When I read the account of the incident in the paper, there is no mention of her being afraid, just loading her gun and threatening to shoot him. Is this justified under RCW 9.41.270 (c) or RCW 9A.16.020. From all accounts I have read, there was no force on the pervs part.
The reason I ask is because indecent exposure is only a misdemeanor in WA, except under certain circumstances.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9A.88.010
A report I read earlier also said she had a dog with her that chased the perv, had him cornered, but she called it off.
Right off, I think she should have pointed and laughed, then tried to hold him while she called 911. If she couldn't hold him, she should have let her dog keeep him close by.
I can't find the original article I read, but it stated her child was facing her in a stroller, so he never saw anything, it told about the dog, and it didn't have the word agressivly in it. From now on I will copy the early reports of stuff I see. Lesson learned.
Found something similiar:
A flasher allegedly got more than he bargained for when he approached a woman at a lake in Washington state this week: a Ruger .380 pointing back at him.
“I put the magazine in my gun. I cocked it,” the woman told The Daily News online. “I said, ‘You need to leave or I’ll shoot you. I’m going to blow your brains out.’”
The gun reportedly had the intended effect.
“Oh, [expletive]!” the man declared, according to the paper, before running away.
Advertise | AdChoicesThe 35-year-old woman was at Lake Sacajawea in Longview, Wash., with her 6-year-old son and a dog Wednesday evening when the man approached, police confirmed to NBC News.
He allegedly sat down and began performing a sex act and said she should watch.
It was at that point that she pulled out her gun.
After the man ran away, she sent her dog, a Norwegian Buhund Hound, after him, police said. The dog cornered him, and when she called the dog back, the man disappeared into the darkness.
Follow @NBCNewsUSThe alleged flasher is described as a “white male in his early 20s with short dark-blond hair and wearing a gray hoody and dark blue jeans,” the paper reported.
Detective Kyle Sahim said police are actively investigating the incident, including whether it is connected to another reported flashing in the area.
"Not a common event in Longview," Sahim said.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/16/15216903-woman-pulls-gun-on-flasher-im-going-to-blow-your-brains-out?lite<br/
I am not saying the woman did anything wrong, in the true sense of the word, but this could have become a he said, she said incident very easily, and she was the one who pulled out the gun to intimidate another. At the very least she should have suggested he stick around for the police, and if not that, she should have let the dog have him, while waiting for the police of course.
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