Reading THIS story about a 44 year-old woman who was arrested yesterday in Indio, California for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend in the finger with a fork, I was surprised to read that she had been charged with "assault with a deadly weapon."
A 'deadly weapon' is legally defined as a firearm or anything else that can be used to cause death or inflict serious physical injury. Can a fork be used to kill? (I don't think so.) And outside of poking a fork in someone's eye (literally), could a fork otherwise be used to inflict serious physical injury? On someone's finger?
I also noted that this alleged fork attack occurred outside a convenience store, leaving me to wonder whether the fork was plastic, or even a 'spork.'
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