Woman accused of hitting (Sen. Carl) Levin’s face with pie in Big Rapids

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Posted: 4:47 p.m. Aug. 16, 2010
Woman accused of hitting Levin’s face with pie in Big Rapids

By TODD SPANGLER
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF

For the record, he prefers blueberry to apple.

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin got an apple pie – no whipped cream or ice cream on top either – in the face this morning during a question-and-answer session for the Mecosta County Democrats at a Big Rapids deli after being criticized by a young man for his stance on foreign policy and defense of Israel.

Witnesses at Pepper’s Café and Deli said as the Detroit Democrat who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee asked the audience to let the man have his say, a young woman circled behind him and squashed a pie into the 76-year-old Levin’s face.

While the woman and man who had asked the question hustled out of the café, Levin made easy comments about it while cleaning himself off, said 22-year-old Tiffany Kelley, a student who works there.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20100816/NEWS15/100816042/

[CreekDog]

1. Assault

which is a crime, if i'm not mistaken.

no?

[onehandle]

2. Yep. And they got her.

'Big Rapids police said the woman, 22-year-old Ahlam Mohsen of Coldwater was arrested not far from the deli and charged with assault and disorderly conduct. It was not immediately clear this afternoon if she was still being held.'

[Chipper Chat]

11. Did she grab a beer and slide down a chute to escape?

What's wrong with these people?

[Winterblues]

32. Wouldn't it be battery instead of assault?

Assault deals more with threats while battery is actually hitting a person.

[KingFlorez]

3. Hitting an elderly man in the face with a pie, how big of them

[JI7]

4. at least this will bring a lot of attention and support for their cause

[MichiganVote]

9. Attention and support? This is Big Rapids. Its notable feature is great ice cream.

Many closed businesses, generally a recreation area. Been better off targeting Obama's carp program for Michigan's rivers or the piss poor economy.

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. Pie them ALL

I hear the current administration likes pie.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. Eat a pie for Chi

One of my favorite Revenge of the Nerds bits

[slackmaster]

26. Anita Bryant took it pretty well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS91gT3XT_A

Ann Coulter was quick and managed to duck in time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YAVhj6NbQ8

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. al pieda in Mich.

We're doomed.

[Lightning Count]

25. Very creative. nt

[activa8tr]

35. GREAT one!

[LiberalFighter]

7. Does that mean Levin is as American as apple pie?

[SILVER__FOX52]

10. Not acceptable....

This is abhorrent.

[Gin]

12. I agree....not funny....unacceptable.

childish and ignorant

[davidinalameda]

13. wonder how many on here also condemned Ann Coulter getting a pie thrown at her

just asking

[tammywammy]

14. Exactly what I was wondering.... n/t

[Patchuli]

15. I didn't after she referred to women on the left

as "hippie pie wagons."

[davidinalameda]

27. that's the wonderful thing about this country

that little thing called free speech

as hateful as her comments were, she's allowed to make them

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

23. Or Kristol...

[KingFlorez]

30. Wrong is wrong, but I just don't think many people cared

Coulter is so hateful, it's pretty hard to sympathize with her getting a pie thrown at her.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

36. Ann Coulter had it coming.

:shrug:

[bitchkitty]

38. Ann Coulter is not 72 years old. n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

39. She looks 102

not that it matters.

[discocrisco01]

16. Woman hits Senate Armed Services chairman with pie

Source: AP

A woman identified as an anti-war protester hit U.S. Sen. Carl Levin in the face with an apple pie during the Armed Services Committee chairman's meeting with constituents in northern Michigan, authorities said Monday.

The senator took a question near the end of the Monday morning meeting in Big Rapids from a man who said he was a student, Levin's office said in a news release. The man read a long statement, then a woman came up and hit Levin with a pie.

Big Rapids police arrested Ahlam M. Mohsen, 22, of Coldwater on a felony charge of stalking, as well as misdemeanor counts of assault and disorderly conduct. She has no listed telephone number in Coldwater.

Mohsen told the Big Rapids Pioneer she hoped "to send a message that liberals and Democrats are just as implicated in the violence (of war) as the Republicans."


Read more: http://qctimes.com/news/national/article_8ea964ee-4fc6-5b56-a52c-a93b9166f90d.html

[eleny]

17. A Dutch apple pie, no less

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9CvYeCVB5Q

[iamthebandfanman]

18. mmm yummy n/t

[Hardrada]

19. Good work but cream pies splatter better!

But point taken.

[Honeycombe8]

20. She'd fit right in a Tea Party Rally. Except I don't think...

Except I don't think the Tea Partiers are physically assaulting other people (yet), are they?

[activa8tr]

37. Tea Party people carry guns, not pies. n/t

[bluestateguy]

21. And yet if this was a rightwing teabagger we would all be outraged

But when it's someone who fits this profile there is a muted reaction.

[boppers]

22. IOKIYAD.

:shrug:

[Lightning Count]

24. Had to google this. nt

[davidinalameda]

28. what does it mean

[Lightning Count]

29. It's okay if you are a democrat. nt

[girl gone mad]

31. We're still caught up in 2 wars...

our economy is a mess, our right wing has lost its collective mind... I hardly think a pie in the face is anything to be outraged about, regardless of who is doing the throwing.

[Luciferous]

33. Wow, really classy. Wasn't there a better way for her to make her point?

[mikelgb]

34. I think congress should enact a law to make pie throwing legal