Ontario woman facing criminal charge following water gun incident

I wonder if the police will reconsider the matter and also charge the woman with the attempted assault of the child she was chasing with the water gun, with intent.

Make sure the washer jets on your cars are correctly aimed at your windshield. In a way that doesn't cause some of the water to rebound from the windshield and hit a pedestrian at the side.

 

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fuzzybuddy said:
I'm not a lawyer, but if someone is claiming to be 'assaulted', the police have little option, but to write it up to be settled in court. It's not the job of the cops to judge the worthiness of a case.
For someone to pursue legal proceedings to redress the "trauma" of getting accidently squirted by water, proves the accuser is a crank.
Case dismissed.
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Your point is well taken. Thanks for the reminder.
 
“It was a compete accident. I didn’t even see the man,” Washik claimed in an interview Wednesday. “I was just trying to entertain a bored kid of about 10 by chasing him with a water gun that was at the party.”

How could she not see the man? He was mowing his lawn. Even if he had an electric mower, they still make quite a bit of noise, and even more if it's a gas powered mower.

I may be the only one here who thinks she intentionally squirted him with water. :ROFLMAO:
 

some people are just out of control and it is a waste of resources the cops time/ the courts time and the stress and i am sure $$ for legal representation
 
As late in life as my college days, I can remember being in some spirited water fight wars. I also played Cops and Robbers and Cowboys and Indians as a child, complete with toy guns and simulated death scenes. Now so very politically incorrect, but we knew no better back then… 🤔

I’m probably lucky not to have been locked up or institutionalized as a danger to society! 😸
 
HermitHogan said:
“It was a compete accident. I didn’t even see the man,” Washik claimed in an interview Wednesday. “I was just trying to entertain a bored kid of about 10 by chasing him with a water gun that was at the party.”

How could she not see the man? He was mowing his lawn. Even if he had an electric mower, they still make quite a bit of noise, and even more if it's a gas powered mower.

I may be the only one here who thinks she intentionally squirted him with water. :ROFLMAO:
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What wasn't explained in the original post's linked story: He was mowing his lawn, and therefore on his own property not at the neighborhood barbecue.

I agree, HH, this was intentional.

She's now trying to cast this as accidental when it was almost certainly what he called it - an act of aggression. Minor aggression perhaps, but aggression nevertheless.

However this works out with the courts, the ante has been upped. An already aggrieved neighbor is now a full on enemy. Dumb, dumb, dumb. The wiser move would have been to invite him to the barbecue in hopes of defusing the feud.

Better details here: Ontario woman charged with assault with a weapon after neighbour sprayed with water gun
 
Lilac said:
He may be, or turning out to be, a neighbor that no one wants to be near, let alone on their property or invited to a party.

Edit to add: I would like to hear everything that happened that day & who they did or did not talk. More than likely we won't hear everything.
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Yes, and as it stands, I can't wrap my head around anything as stupid as this.
 
RadishRose said:
Yes, and as it stands, I can't wrap my head around anything as stupid as this.
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Why that woman chose to poke the bear is beyond my understanding. On the rare occasions when I've had neighbors I didn't care for, I've been polite and kept my distance. Provoking them would have been unthinkable.

How did she imagine this was going to go, short or long term? Gotta wonder if alcohol was involved.
 
StarSong said:
What wasn't explained in the original post's linked story: He was mowing his lawn, and therefore on his own property not at the neighborhood barbecue.

I agree, HH, this was intentional.

She's now trying to cast this as accidental when it was almost certainly what he called it - an act of aggression. Minor aggression perhaps, but aggression nevertheless.

However this works out with the courts, the ante has been upped. An already aggrieved neighbor is now a full on enemy. Dumb, dumb, dumb. The wiser move would have been to invite him to the barbecue in hopes of defusing the feud.

Better details here: Ontario woman charged with assault with a weapon after neighbour sprayed with water gun
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Sounds like the neighbour is a total jerk. The article says that numerous neighbours mentioned that he's always calling the cops on his neighbours for minor situations. He's the old man screaming at kids to get off his lawn so he can go back to screaming at the clouds in peace.

If he's like that, I doubt very much that she'd intentionally shoot him with a water gun. Why on earth would anyone want to cause trouble like that?
 
HermitHogan said:
Wendy Washik made $11,000 off the GoFundMe site before they shut it down. That's a good down payment on a new car. She's doing okay off this.
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A down payment on a car for her lawyer would be more accurate.

Calling a water gun a weapon is just stupid. Getting someone wet, well heaven forbid. Those police were fools.

I’m still not sure if she lives in the neighbourhood. She said she was visiting her friends.
 
Jules said:
A down payment on a car for her lawyer would be more accurate.

Calling a water gun a weapon is just stupid. Getting someone wet, well heaven forbid. Those police were fools.

I’m still not sure if she lives in the neighbourhood. She said she was visiting her friends.
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"Wendy Washik was at a neighbourhood barbecue on Sept. 1 when she joined a playful water gun fight with one of her neighbour’s children." It was her neighbor's child, therefore she also lives in the neighborhood.

I don't disagree with the opinion that calling the cops and them charging her with assault was overreach. On the other hand, I'm highly skeptical that shooting water at a cranky neighbor who was MOWING his lawn was accidental.

What fascinates me is that some members of this forum complain about relatively minor issues with neighbors, some documenting the transgressions carefully, and calling authorities from time to time. They get a lot of sympathy here. I wonder what the response here would be if one of those folks said, "I was out on my own property on Labor Day weekend, mowing my lawn, minding my own business, when this neighborhood woman that I've had trouble with before, comes out of the gate and starts squirting me with a water gun, then claims it was accidental. Can you imagine the nerve of her??!!??

Woe to Ms Washik: he responded to her passive-aggressive behavior with the full weight of the law. The judge may dismiss the case, fine her, or sentence her to community service. She and the complainant will also likely be warned to knock off the nonsense. Can't imagine a stronger response.

Glad neither of those neighbors live next door to me. Not the cranky one nor the deliberately provocative one.
 
What is assault?

Assault, often referred to as simple assault, is where one person does something which is forceful or which threatens force to another person without their consent or permission. Under section 265 of the Criminal Code, assault can occur in any of the following three situations:

Where one person intentionally applies force (directly or indirectly) to another person, without their consent,
Where one person attempts to apply force, or threatens to apply force to another person. In these cases, the person making the attempt or threat must have the ability to carry out the threat, or must have caused the complainant to believe that he or she has the ability to do so, and
Where a person approaches another person while openly wearing or carrying a weapon (even if the weapon is fake) and accosts or impedes another person (approaches them or stops them), or if the person with the weapon begs.



Assault and Battery Laws in Canada

Part VIII of the Criminal Code / Against the Person and Reputation
Assault and Battery

Serious Assault

Criminal Code of Canada - section 265(1) - Assault
 
The police may have charged her because they suspected her of lying. It's a crime to lie to the police in Ontario and that may be why she's so nervous. Or not. Let's see what she says in court under oath and what her neighbor says. Somebody is lying.
 
HermitHogan said:
The police may have charged her because they suspected her of lying. It's a crime to lie to the police in Ontario and that may be why she's so nervous. Or not. Let's see what she says in court under oath and what her neighbor says. Somebody is lying.
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The police didn’t even talk to her or any of the other folks present.
 
Lilac said:
Wow! :eek: I have no words for something like this.

Even if the two neighbors didn't get along, the one IMO is grabbing straws to "get even" with the other it sounds. I wonder if the woman was aware if the other neighbor had issues with her? Makes me wonder about their history.

If I was another neighbor in the area, I'd be steering clear of the one who filed charges. I wouldn't want to find myself in that ladies shoes if he decided he had a problem with me.

Besides, if you are at an outdoor party where kids are around, you expect games to be played. I always remember as a kid that some adults would join in for fun. For crying out loud, it was filled with water. Or, maybe he was related to the Wicked Witch of the West?
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The accuser strikes me as the sort of "mature adult" I always hoped I would never become.
 
HermitHogan said:
“It was a compete accident. I didn’t even see the man,” Washik claimed in an interview Wednesday. “I was just trying to entertain a bored kid of about 10 by chasing him with a water gun that was at the party.”

How could she not see the man? He was mowing his lawn. Even if he had an electric moer, they still make quite a bit of noise, and even more if it's a gas powered mower.

I may be the only one here who thinks she intentionally squirted him with water. :ROFLMAO:
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If she did, he deserved it, the old crank.
 
StarSong said:
"Wendy Washik was at a neighbourhood barbecue on Sept. 1 when she joined a playful water gun fight with one of her neighbour’s children." It was her neighbor's child, therefore she also lives in the neighborhood.

I don't disagree with the opinion that calling the cops and them charging her with assault was overreach. On the other hand, I'm highly skeptical that shooting water at a cranky neighbor who was MOWING his lawn was accidental.

What fascinates me is that some members of this forum complain about relatively minor issues with neighbors, some documenting the transgressions carefully, and calling authorities from time to time. They get a lot of sympathy here. I wonder what the response here would be if one of those folks said, "I was out on my own property on Labor Day weekend, mowing my lawn, minding my own business, when this neighborhood woman that I've had trouble with before, comes out of the gate and starts squirting me with a water gun, then claims it was accidental. Can you imagine the nerve of her??!!??

Woe to Ms Washik: he responded to her passive-aggressive behavior with the full weight of the law. The judge may dismiss the case, fine her, or sentence her to community service. She and the complainant will also likely be warned to knock off the nonsense. Can't imagine a stronger response.

Glad neither of those neighbors live next door to me. Not the cranky one nor the deliberately provocative one.
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You're making a total assumption about Ms. Washik when there is no stated evidence that she was deliberately provocative while there was statements from various neighbours that the complainer is always calling the cops for every little thing.
 

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