US woman charged with assault for squirting breast milk at officer

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7402923/US-woman-charged-with-assault-for -squirting-breast-milk-at-officer.html haha

Could this be the response we could give if challenged for breastfeeding in public? Erm possibly not if we are going to be deemed a biohazard and arrested for assault but still felt the article had to be shared with mumsnet!

butwould you reaally be upset if you were accidentally squirted in a cafe?
i know that's not what this thread's about btw

I would immediately go and wash, while accepting that it was an accident.

if I had been squirted in my eye, mouth or open wound, I'd consider going for a blood test.

I'm really not joking.

Oh dear, I'd wipe it off with a tissue - am maybe a bit too blase about the whole thing!

SPB - yeah I would probably do the same as you - wipe it off with a tissue.
but I can understand why the police handled it as they did.

What about if you were in a country with very high rates of HIV infection and it went in your eye?

Happily in the UK we can afford to be relatively blase as our popultation in general is pretty healthy and free of infection. If someone got blood on me I probably wouldn't be concerned from a illness POV unless it went into a wound or into my mouth etc.