A Gilbert woman was arrested for domestic violence after stabbing her husband’s cell phone early Monday morning, police said.
Gilbert police were called to the 3000 block of South Blue Jay Drive after Patricia Stradling, 35, grabbed a knife during an argument with her husband and stabbed his phone, police said. Her husband was able to take the knife away from her without injury. He told police he was not threatened or assaulted with the knife.
Stradling was arrested for assault domestic violence, criminal damage domestic violence and disorderly conduct domestic violence.
DrJCA1 posted at 1:38 pm on Mon, Oct 29, 2012.
She stabbed a phone and was arrested for that? This opens up lots of possibilities - to wit: if your can opener doesn't work and you bang it against the countertop, if you stomp on your remote because it didn't change the channel quick enough, or threw your corkscrew against the wall because it didn't get the cork out in one try. We should have a contest for the stupidest thing the police can arrest your for without an actual crime being committed. By the way, if the husband was not threatened in any way, who called the cops? Maybe the phone company in order to protect it's "children".
remo303 posted at 2:06 am on Tue, Oct 30, 2012.
As a retired officer, I will admit there is more often than not "more to the story" than appears in the media reports but this seems worthy of question. I'd sure like to have more details that provided the reasonable belief that the acts charged were, in fact, committed (albeit outside the presence of the officers).
wellreadone posted at 3:13 am on Tue, Oct 30, 2012.
The cops apparently respond to many DV tiffs, they really seem to dislike it because it can go from goofy, dumb, stupid and embarrassingly inexcusable, to getting killed or maimed by people they are trying to defuse in an instant.
As an example, both "Fred" and "Ethyl" are angry, frustrated, confused about each other, and are trying to know if the other even cares about them at the minimum. Practical communication and accurate perception have probably failed them and the increased potential for hand to hand combat too frequently follows.
This can make the couple near impossible to predict if cops get involved by just appearing at their door and that can anger them more because the cops can be judged as opinionated critics, with no insight into their problems, in their own home yet., with the gall to stick their noses into their private lives.
I admit that getting busted for nailing hubby's phone to a table is less than probable cause without knowing wifey's true intent. The suspicion or confirmation they have a less than polite debate in progress might be the point that calls for a time out to chill at home or visit a place so folks will chill without any choice.
It is distasteful for anyone to "get between or involved" with even good friends and everyone wisely tries to "stay out of it".
I can easily empathize with cops, whose job requires them to respond to a scene in which grown ups have no excuse for becoming children, it is embarrassing that they even need to show up and is actually an insult to any logic.
I once was given an old and fully dreadful beater of a pickup truck that I did not want, need or even wish to look at. I received it from a friend. His girl friend gave it to him. Her dad gave it to her. Before that, the dad pulled trailers far too heavy, over the worst of roads for years. He bought it brand new but not well because it was the very worst model one could possibly buy. It was brutalized for years with a limitless hate by the dad for his bad choice.
I accepted the beast for no reason other to relieve my friend from being exposed to it. I had no idea what I was going to do with it. One day I conceived and invented a purpose for it. Symbolically put it out of our misery by making it a rifle target that one can drive but would prefer not to. I enjoy target shooting and that truck had qualified itself as a target.
My son and I drove to the boonies and proceeded to drill the sides of the bed with a .22 rifle. The objective was to place closely, the rounds in a pattern that could mimic a full-auto weapon. It was novel fun and we did well. You could say we created a replacement for those bullet hole decals kids stick on their cars, no more, no less, more creative and done safely as we knew the exact location of those plastic fuel tanks to miss them and we always hit our aim. The bed sides are double walled and the bullets were trapped between each layer of sheet metal without exception. Due to the type of slug and the low and very questionable alloy of those "fenders", the entrance holes looked to have been made by a 9 mm projectile.
When one of our small town marshal deputies pulled me over one day, probably because he wondered how such a pile of metal can even move, and was certainly a grave threat to the safety and lives of the public if operated (and it was actually, but far more mortally embarrassing to drive) he spotted the bullet holes.
That is when he began to look at us with crossed eyes and asked how they got there. It was a reasonable question which I politely answered with exact truth ( apparently cops tend to be told very little truth on a daily basis, it is so rare and that makes them honest skeptics for very good reasons)
My answer did not compute because the pattern, hole size were clearly from a full-auto such as an Uzi, MAC or any one of many others, however, there was no question of the type of the source in his mind. He had every reason to suspect the obvious material evidence and with logical reason.....until I indicated the total absence of exit holes in the inboard face of the fender. I even graciously encouraged him to have some fun by opening that fender with an abrasive cutoff saw, can opener or even the weapon of his choosing, and with my written consent holding him legally harmless and with my blessings. My sincerity was apparent and he knew I was not trying to be a wise guy, and this invite was real. I further indicated the troubled past of the beast, from the start being the worst design in the history of all vehicles, the regrettable choice of the first buyer, the endless retribution of abuse by the same, his mission to be free of the beast by any means, even to his beautiful daughter, her immediate desire to help her dad if she can by any means, telling her boy friend it was now his, all his and please do not ask why, his benevolent "gift" to me and my justifiable choice as it's only suitability as a target, the ENTIRE factual history. My then wife who was resolved to drive it to work out of necessity with great loathing which was our ultimate reason for our failed marriage and her trauma, neurosis and her fleeing back to England, a broken soul.
He was seriously considered some type of domestic violence charge against me considering the facts, but relented due to my lack of purposeful and malicious intent.
The truck was driven by her until she escaped back to the U.K. when she had some friend drive it to my new residence. I immediately GAVE it to a neighbor who had no wheels, and for free and he sold it for $600 and apparently went into a serious and very surprising Meth bender, after selling it to his next door neighbor who endured it as long as he could and then sold it to his neighbor one house down who thought it could be a short term beater, then gave up.
The last time I saw the beast it went past my house on a flat bed to a crusher and hopefully, not it's next victim. Every detail is accurate fact and frightfully true.
gentlesoul424 posted at 2:18 pm on Tue, Oct 30, 2012.
My daughters Husband was arrested in Gilbert for breaking her phone in an argument. He did not physically harm her just the phone and got the same charges brought against him. I do understand wellreadones point, however I think this is taking things way to far. We have serious crimes and abuse going on and should be handled as such. Really there needs to be some changes.