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DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 10:29 PM Aug 2020

Remember the FL woman who coughed on a cancer patient at Pier 1?

A cancer patient had a scary shopping trip in Jacksonville in June. In a widely shared video, Heather Sprague shot video of a fellow Pier 1 shopper deliberately coughing on her without a mask.

“I think I’ll get real close to you,” said Debra Hunter, before coughing on Sprague, who is being treated for a brain tumor and has a compromised immune system. Hunter had been arguing with a cashier about returning an item that was not in her possession, Sprague said.

The victim, a mother of 10, told the Miami Herald that she filed a police report a few days after the incident report. According to Duval County court records, Hunter was arrested, on July 22.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article244688687.html




https://www.facebook.com/heather.r.sprague/posts/10221030669350649
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Remember the FL woman who coughed on a cancer patient at Pier 1? (Original Post) DesertRat Aug 2020 OP
Good! Thank you for the update. Nevilledog Aug 2020 #1
About damned time! The report was filed in June. She is on video assaulting the victim. niyad Aug 2020 #2
Good question! DesertRat Aug 2020 #6
She Is Probably a Repug NonPC Aug 2020 #17
she'd be dead AmyStrange Aug 2020 #27
good Demovictory9 Aug 2020 #3
Finally! StarryNite Aug 2020 #4
Lock her up in a Trump cage Tiger8 Aug 2020 #5
Good! n/t Niagara Aug 2020 #7
It feels so right! dchill Aug 2020 #8
I hope this serves as a warning to all of the other littlemissmartypants Aug 2020 #9
❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️ Lucinda Aug 2020 #10
Lock her up Gothmog Aug 2020 #11
Question: albacore Aug 2020 #12
Florida has "stand your ground" VWolf Aug 2020 #13
Is the cancer patient doing OK??? TNNurse Aug 2020 #14
That's what I would like to know... Luciferous Aug 2020 #28
Good malaise Aug 2020 #15
She is a threat to society.. AZ8theist Aug 2020 #16
Whew. I was worried this story would be different. maxsolomon Aug 2020 #18
Other than family members I don't get Roc2020 Aug 2020 #19
I'd really like to see this case go to trial Fritz Walter Aug 2020 #20
transmitting AIDS virus was finally made illegal, years too late, IMHO dixiegrrrrl Aug 2020 #29
Hope to god that..... zentrum Aug 2020 #21
if somone did that to me , first take a pic, then i have the right to defend myself. AllaN01Bear Aug 2020 #22
I'd take the pick I_UndergroundPanther Aug 2020 #25
Stupid ****.. Way to follow through, Heather Spague.. Cha Aug 2020 #23
Good Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #24
The title of this OP is like driving by a car wreck... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #26

niyad

(113,318 posts)
2. About damned time! The report was filed in June. She is on video assaulting the victim.
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 10:45 PM
Aug 2020

And it still took all that time to arrest her bio terrorist ass??? Was she out of the country or somehow unavailable ????

NonPC

(305 posts)
17. She Is Probably a Repug
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 12:47 PM
Aug 2020

Police departments wait for Repugs to turn themselves in. Now if she was black...

littlemissmartypants

(22,667 posts)
9. I hope this serves as a warning to all of the other
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 12:14 AM
Aug 2020

would be jerks out there who think that coughing on people is cute, during a pandemic. I hope she gets the maximum sentence.

❤ lmsp

albacore

(2,399 posts)
12. Question:
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 04:03 AM
Aug 2020

How far could the cancer patient go in defending herself against this creature?

What if the cancer patient knocked her out with a bottle, to keep her from further assaulting her?

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
18. Whew. I was worried this story would be different.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:22 PM
Aug 2020

That the Coughing Lady would have tested positive. Instead it's a feel-good arrest story!

Now she knows: Spite is when you hurt yourself to hurt another.

Roc2020

(1,616 posts)
19. Other than family members I don't get
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:26 PM
Aug 2020

close enough to someone for their cough sneeze etc to get anywhere near me. Grocery is 2-3x per week so I can use the self checkout where no one can stand too close to me in line.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
20. I'd really like to see this case go to trial
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:37 PM
Aug 2020

And not plea-bargained down to misdemeanor rudeness.

It's almost time for me to get another jury summons here in Jacksonville, and I'd walk across hot coals to get empaneled on that jury.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
29. transmitting AIDS virus was finally made illegal, years too late, IMHO
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 10:48 PM
Aug 2020


I should say, knowingly transmitting to someone who did not know their partner had the virus, was illegal.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
21. Hope to god that.....
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 02:08 PM
Aug 2020

……the cougher tests negative.

Maybe Jarad will bail her out. He likes those who will weaponize Covid19. Like he did with his test withholding.

AllaN01Bear

(18,242 posts)
22. if somone did that to me , first take a pic, then i have the right to defend myself.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 03:35 PM
Aug 2020

end of sentace. glad the so and so is in jail.

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
26. The title of this OP is like driving by a car wreck...
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 08:23 PM
Aug 2020

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You just have to stop and check it out.
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