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Ryan Shull, 21, of Deltona, Fla., was using his mother’s computer when she got home from work, and she wanted to use it. Shull refused, so his mother, Christina Gagliardy, 40, allegedly hit him with a plastic lunch tray and then chased him around the kitchen at the point of a screwdriver, according to the resulting arrest report. Gagliardy was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and domestic battery. (RC/Daytona Beach News-Journal) ...A deadly weapon? But the report didn’t say it was a school cafeteria lunch tray.
Original Publication Date: 16 October 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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