You can do somebody an harm with an Apple Watch, apparently
Assault with battery — A Florida girl has been arrested for chopping her boyfriend’s ear with an Apple Watch thrown throughout a battle.
There’s an fascinating authorized reality {that a} girl is extra doubtless than a person to be charged with homicide as an alternative of manslaughter. It is as a result of being, usually, smaller than a person, a girl in a rage might need to choose up a weapon — and simply doing that makes the act premeditated.
So whereas The Smoking Gun experiences in preposterous element how a Florida girl threw an Apple Watch at her boyfriend, it in some way misses that key reality. We merely have no idea whether or not she was carrying the Apple Watch, and so needed to take it off first.
We do know from the report that every one of this occurred at 1am native time in Gulfport, Florida. At the moment, Kayleen Tresedder was allegedly in an argument with the sufferer. He had positioned her belongings in a bag, and in response she threw her Apple Watch at him.
There is no report of what the argument was about, and nothing however your finest guess as to why the person had bagged up her belongings. What there may be, although, is the age of the individuals — each 35 — and that the Apple Watch struck the person’s ear, “causing a small cut which bled.”
The in-depth report additionally covers how the couple have three youngsters, and for some cause how a lot Tresedder paid for his or her home in 2016. It was $139,000, because you’re questioning.
Crucially, there isn’t any phrase on which Apple Watch was concerned. So it is also not identified whether or not it was aluminum or stainless-steel, or whether or not it was a lightweight Apple Watch SE, or a heavier Apple Watch Extremely.
Tresedder was arrested on a misdemeanor, and charged on the native county jail. She’s been launched on her personal recognizance, however ordered by a choose to haven’t any contact with the person, aside from “for the sole purpose of childcare.”.
The police report additionally notes that the person’s “V-neck was stretched and torn by the defendant who grabbed him by the collar.”
Apparently, police selected to not retain the Apple Watch as proof. There is no phrase on what occurred to the V-neck.
Individually, Gulfport, Florida, is round 30 miles from the place an Apple Watch saved the lifetime of a driver in 2019.