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No one likes to become recipient of a spit projectile. That is unless of course you are swapping it with your significant other. Sharing with your girlfriend or boyfriend certainly is not a crime either. Sharing it with that drunk girl or guy you met in a bar is not a crime. Two days later , not even remembering the encounter you get a call from the Health Department that a known HIV or TB(Tuberculosis) carrier was making his/her rounds through the Dallas Bars that night mugging down with every available mouth to be found. Damm! You thought you were special!
The two most logical questions are, first can you contract HIV or TB that way and is it a crime to spit on someone knowing you are a carrier?
At least as to the HIV issue, the a Dallas, Texas jury have said that spitting on someone knowing you are HIV positive is a crime.
Two weeks ago A homeless man who spit in the mouth and eye of a police officer and then taunted him, saying he was H.I.V. positive, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday for harassing a public servant with a deadly weapon: his saliva. The key part of this ruling was the finding that the spit should be classified as a deadly weapon.
Read more about it here.
The two most logical questions are, first can you contract HIV or TB that way and is it a crime to spit on someone knowing you are a carrier?
At least as to the HIV issue, the a Dallas, Texas jury have said that spitting on someone knowing you are HIV positive is a crime.
Two weeks ago A homeless man who spit in the mouth and eye of a police officer and then taunted him, saying he was H.I.V. positive, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday for harassing a public servant with a deadly weapon: his saliva. The key part of this ruling was the finding that the spit should be classified as a deadly weapon.
Read more about it here.
