No Fucking Way: Woman Arrested for Cursing in Grocery Store

According
to a witness, Danielle Wolf cursed at her two little girls last
week because they were squeezing the bread at a Kroger supermarket
in North Augusta, South Carolina. “Stop squishing the fucking
bread,” Wolf reportedly said. Wolf
says she was talking not to her children but to her husband,
who was recklessly tossing frozen pizzas into their shopping cart.
Either way, she committed a misdemeanor, so police had no choice
but to handcuff her in front of her family and cart her off to the
station.

Or so they say.
According to WAGT, the NBC station in Augusta, Georgia, police
“say that because it’s a law on the books, they have to enforce
it.” The law in question
defines disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor punishable by a
maximum fine of $500 and up to 30 days in jail, to include
“utter[ing], while in a state of anger, in the presence of another,
any bawdy, lewd or obscene words or epithets.” So once a shopper
offended by Wolf’s salty language complained to Officer Travis
Smith, his hands were tied, and soon so were Wolf’s. The
complainant, whose name is blacked out in the
police report on the incident, said the cursing reminded
her of her traumatic childhood. She later
apologized to Wolf by phone, saying she did not expect her
to be arrested. Yet according to the police report, when Smith
asked the scandalized shopper “if she wished to testify in court
about the incident, [she] stated that she would.” Only then did
Smith proceed to arrest Wolf.

Because of the notoriety generated by her arrest, Wolf
was anxious to show the public that she is a good mother who loves
her children. She even apologized to the woman who turned her in,
saying she would never say fucking in public again.
I’m not sure that’s the main lesson to be drawn from this
incident.

[via
George Mathis at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]