A man being assaulted by a woman? It can happen.

[Deja Q]

And not just to me either, check this out:

http://www.kmsp.com/news/newsat9/story.asp?1647273


A man has more than a hundred stitches after being attacked by a woman who claims she's HIV positive.

It happened Saturday morning at 22nd Street East and 5th Avenue South in Minneapolis.

That's just between 35W and Portland Avenue.

Police say the woman went up to the man, bit him, and then slashed his face with a broken bottle.

The woman also tried to spit on police.
Cops aren't saying if the woman is HIV positive.

Wow. That's charming... if she is, it's the same thing as murder. HIV kills, the "treatment" drugs are horrible, and there's no proper cure (and wouldn't be because "treatment" drugs are more profitable.)

I wonder why she attacked him...

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Why does this shock this people

Oh sorry I forgot most of us are not aware of what goes among oh the five perscent of every population that does not play well with others

[Deja Q]

5. Oy! It happened to me and when I tried to tell others, they LAUGHED at me

So forgive me if I am in shock if I believed the same sexist drivel that everyone else did at the time, okay?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I worked in EMS for ten years along cops

And many a call involved thigs that are not fit for polite soceity... ranging from assault, to abuse, to sodomy, to rape... oh and shootouts

That is why I am very jaded when it comes to this

[Deja Q]

9. And how the hell do you think I feel?

If you want jaded, I can tell you a few stories and you'll be surprised why I'm not as jaded as I damn well deserve to be.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Believe me I understand

One of my calls involved a Young man who was assaulted and raped... and nobody in law enforcement would believe the rape part...

So don't take this on me, I am not the right person to take this on... I am on your side.

[dsc]

2. more likely attempted murder

It is pretty hard to get HIV, even in an open cut, via saliva. She still deserves a really long sentence but it is likely he won't get HIV.

[Montauk6]

3. Of course it can happen! I doubt any reasonable person would dispute that

Even the first major attempt on Dr. King's life was a woman who came verrrrrry close to fatally stabbing him.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. You;d be surprsied how many people will qusetion this

[OrlandoGator]

4. Cardinal rule of club bouncing: Keep an eye on the girlfriend.

Can a woman assault a man? Oh, hell yes.

When I used to be a bouncer in college, whenever we'd throw out a guy he'd usually behave himself. It was the girlfriend who was being left behind who ended up focusing the wrath.

I've been punched, scratched, kicked, bitten, slapped and head-butted by women. I can easily say that I sustained more damage from women working that job than I ever did from men.

A determined woman can ruin your day, pal.

[jaysunb]

6. Yes....it's true.

My Mother used to assault me quite regularly. Especially around this time of year...you know, when school was out and all. Lots of trouble to get into.
:rofl:

[dsc]

7. BTW virtually any teacher will tell you

that they will break up a boy on boy fight over a girl on girl one. Boys will almost always stop the second they realize a teacher is around, girls are a whole different story.

[OrlandoGator]

13. Absolutely true of adults, too. See post #4.

n/t

[dsc]

15. Yea I can imagine

My sister is unreal when she loses her temper.

[Paula Sims]

11. I feel pain for the men who are forced to keep quiet

because it's not "macho" to admit that a woman beat you up. What about a 250lb woman against a 150lb man? (I'm a "large" lady so I'm not throwing stones here). A crime is a crime. Person on person, human on human, regardless of race or gender.

Those that do report it are to be commended for being a REAL man. Noone should keep quiet about something like this.


Paula

[Vinca]

14. I was on a jury once and the man on trial was accused of

domestic assault. We saw photos of the woman with 2 black eyes. Amazingly, after the evidence and witnesses were put on, it turns out he was beating her off to protect himself. As I recall she was going after him with a broken bottle. We found him not guilty.

[newswolf56]

16. As a newspaper reporter covering police and courts...

I ran into this sort of incident more times than I like to remember. The very worst was the scalding a Bible-thump mother inflicted on her son after she caught him masturbating: one of the many stories that never saw the light of day in a "family" newspaper -- this despite the fact male-versus-male violence (shotgunnings, cuttings etc.) were considered "normal" for the region.

In the Minneapolis case, I wonder if the assailant picked her victim at random, or if assailant and victim were acquainted. Story doesn't say: very sophomoronic reporting and editing to have left out that vital element.

[punpirate]

17. There's probably a lot more of this that...

... doesn't get into the news, and it's mostly domestic assault. Every time this subject comes up, I'm reminded of a story from an Air Force magazine a couple of decades ago. One airman had consistently good performance reviews for a number of years, but suddenly, his performance began to fall off, mostly because he was falling asleep on the job, to the point that his commander was ready to discharge him for the good of the service. Some thought drugs (no evidence), a second job off base (none), heavy drinking (no obvious evidence). But, someone suggested that there were problems at home. So they sent investigators to his house.

He was rather short and slight, and his wife, from Kentucky, was a huge woman who obviously dominated the household. Over the course of the family services investigation, they discovered that the woman was exceedingly jealous, and after her husband had been sent on TDY to the DEW line in Canada, she had harbored the idea that he had been cheating on her, maybe with loose Eskimo women.

So, when he returned, each night, she would wait until he fell asleep and then whack him in the head with a cast-iron skillet. This, quite naturally, kept him from sleeping, and over time, the effects of this began to cause him to constantly fall asleep on the job....

Such assault probably happens more often than we realize.

[newswolf56]

21. I remember publication maybe five years ago of data...

showing that each gender is about equally guilty of spousal abuse, and that significantly more child abuse is committed by women, especially against sons. Sorry I don't remember the sources of the numbers, but I believe at least some were from federal crime statistics. (I also recall that some feminists protest vehemently and bitterly that the data was skewed if not outright wrong.)

Googles: "domestic violence by women" and "child abuse by women"

[SidDithers]

18. Tawny Kitaen and Chuck Finley...

their case got lots of attention when it occurred 3 years ago.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2002/04/03/kitean_finley_ap/

Sid

[Arwennick]

19. It goes on all the time

A friend of mine was busted by the Feds for smuggling drugs back in the 70's.He did 8 years,then was put on parole for 10 years.So he couldn't do squat to protect himself from a later girlfriend who got mad one night and beat him unconsious with a oak cane.He was in a coma 3 days.Later when he recovered the cops arrested him at the Hospital for assult and thus parole violations.He was sent back to Texas to serve the 10 years.Luckily the girlfriend was taped in a phone conversation a few weeks later bragging on setting him up,knowing he was on parole.He is still single to this day.I don't blame him.

[Straight Shooter]

20. A friend of mine has told me about a woman he knew, nicknamed Schnarl.

Not Snarl, but Schnarl, because it sounds even more menacing that way. She had all the guys and the women intimidated. Eventually she was arrested for murdering a man. Apparently she was a real piece of work.

Of course women can assault men, rape included. As for the violence, I've never seen anything quite as realistic (and frightening) as Charlize Theron in "Monster."