Looks like Tuco finally met his match!

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    A source familiar with the case tells TMZ … Cruz was washing his car and asked the girl to move out of the way. When she didn’t, she allegedly got sprayed and believed he did it on purpose.

    Seriously? I’m thinking that the girl’s family has friends in high places.

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      A lot of states have very strict assault laws. For instance, in MA, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon can be brought against a person if they hit, throw, or spray pretty much any object or substance, including self-defense things like pepper spray.

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          You’re not thinking like a lawyer.

          “Your honor, the defendant viciously and recklessly launched a dangerous substance - known to scientists as ‘dihydrogen monoxide’ - at my client. This chemical compound is commonly used in industrial cleaning operations and as a coolant in nuclear reactors. We seek damages up to $10,000,000,000 for pain and suffering.”

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          Think about the reaction you can get spraying people with water. They’ll cry out, close their eyes, shield their faces and run away.

          I don’t know if you can call it “battery” which is often what people mistakenly expect from a definition of assault. It’s assault if you run up to someone with your fist pulled back like you’re going to punch them. It’s battery when you punch them.

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          People who have been sprayed with dihydrogen monoxide have a 100% rate of dying.

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          Water, where the sharks and kraken live? That water? Seems pretty dangerous to me!!!

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            Can’t be too careful with that dihydrogen monoxide, 100% of people that drink it eventually die

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                It’s worse than that too. People become addicted to it and withdrawals will kill them in a matter of days.

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                  It’s the primary component in acid rain! In its gaseous form, it can cause severe burns from only brief contact! And would you believe that autopsies reveal this dangerous compound in the bodies of almost all deceased people? It should be outlawed!

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          The other comments are joking, but I bet a “serious” (legally, not realistically) that the defendant didn’t know if it was safe or not. Maybe the water had some dangerous chemicals in it? We all know that the argument would be bullshit, but I would bet that’s what they’d say. Or a potential alternative would be that the intent was to have her fall and get hurt, or something like that.

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            But it was from a hose. From the account it sounds like he asked her to move, she didn’t, so he sprayed her a bit.

            Even in her own admission she says she thinks it was intentional, which means that it could have also been accidental.

            The correct response to a neighbor spraying you with a hose is to go inside and wipe off, not file a police report.

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              I’m not talking about the “correct” response. I said it wouldn’t be a reasonable argument. I was talking about the argument that will be made in court. It’ll be bullshit, but I bet it’ll be something along the lines I said above.

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    Im assuming he sprayed an HOA Karen who didn’t like him washing his car on the driveway. This guy is arrested for spraying water and Raja Jackson almost murders a guy and is still on the loose

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        That was part of the premise of the episode about his bachelor eligibility and subsequent arranged marriage. It was also much more subtly visited upon in the octuplets episode.

        Uh, spoiler warning for 28 year old and 26 year old Simpsons episodes, respectively.

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    Awesome. I guess she never got his poo pushed in. (Training day)

    Edit: he seems like a nice guy. I wonder what actually happened. Arrest seems extreme.

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    With minor infractions, the City Attorney often defers prosecution and holds an office hearing, where the alleged offender is warned and sometimes agrees to anger management courses in exchange for dropping the charges.

    Tuco taking an anger management course wasn’t on my 2025 bingo

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    I don’t want to go back to Reddit so I’m just going to assume r/okbuddychicanery is going to have a field day.

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    I didn’t watch enough Breaking Bad to know who this person played as a character, but with the years of memes and references, this seems like something that could have happened in the show.