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Man Charged After Spitting On Elderly Woman In Traffic

April 2, 2012 at 9:57 am by Morbid

Cape Coral, FL – A 33-year-old man has been charged with battery after he allegedly spit on a 75-year-old woman in traffic in a fit of road rage.

Police say the woman, Lois Artino, was a passenger in a vehicle being driven by her son when Kurt Ronis pulled alongside them.

He was not happy with the way they where operating their vehicle and showed his displeasure with a barrage of profanity and a salvo of spit fired into their passenger window.

After the elder Artino was spat on several times, they pulled over and called police. Ronis was later identified after a surveillance photo of him at a toll booth was made public.

Officers interviewed Ronis at his home where he admitted to spitting at the Altinos after they cut him off in traffic. Ronis, who expressed remorse for what he did, was arrested for battery on a person 65 years of age or older.

I don’t condone what Ronis did, but my God do I understand it. But if it were legal for me to spit on all the horrible drivers I encounter on a daily basis, I’d be dead of severe dehydration. I’d leave for work at 7 a.m., and at 7:15 a.m. they’d find me dead in my truck, looking like this.

Tags: Assault, Crime, Florida, Kurt Ronis, Road Rage, spit

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rensuchan

Ah, good ol’ Road Rage stories. I love ‘em.

But is spitting on someone really considered battery? Apparently you can stab someone with an ice pick and walk away free but not spit on them… hmm.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Staves/521875395 Andy Staves

Ah Cape Coral, the armpit of Fort Myers lol, and that’s saying a lot considering how much of a dump Fort Myers is!
AssWho?

Im all for letting stupid people know when they are failing to operate a motor vehicle in a satisfactory manner, but that’s nasty and more then once. I would shoot someone for that. Looks like a winner in the mug
sugarpie

Why wouldn’t you roll your window up after the first loogie? blahhh
Sam

That hairdo looks familiar. This very well might be the same woman i hurled a half-eaten donut at yesterday. If it is, then i’d say Kurt was justified cause she couldn’t drive for shit.
I think we need to introduce a ‘you need to be THIS high to drive’ measurement. Anybody old enough to have shrunk in height to within a certain distance of the steering wheel, should not be allowed to drive.
JGo555

Stupid automatic windows. Remember when you could roll your window up or down fast? Remember when you could slide your seat back to have more leg room in about a second?

My fucking truck has buttons that you have to push & the shit takes like 6 seconds. The best part is when it gets into the fucking farthest position from the damned steering wheel when you get out of the truck and I have to push the fucking button for like 10 secs for it to go back to the closest position because I need to put the kids in the back.

I fucking hate that pre-setting function of our truck. I get out of the truck & a fucking giant can get in, but I fucking have to press a button to get the seat into the place I want it to be. It’s fucking useful for like a second, the you spend the rest of your driving days with that truck, fighting that damned “feature”.

Ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLR0enhEEM0&feature=player_detailpage
newstarshipsmell

“I think we need to introduce a ‘you need to be THIS high to drive’ measurement.”

As I first read that I thought you were advocating mandatory stoned driving for everyone, which I thought was a fine solution to road rage. Then I read on and came to the inevitable disappointment.
LeaveMeBe

I can control myself in a lot of situations (even physical altercations) but spitting is something that sends me into a blind rage. If this guy had spit on my sixty-something mother, I guarantee you he would never have road rage again because I would’ve fucked him up so bad he’d never be able to drive.
newstarshipsmell

What I fucking hate is when the damned windows freeze shut, and I have to open the door and push down on them while depressing the control to make them start moving. That shit NEVER happened to me with manual windows. You may wonder what the big deal is about that, but let me assure you for a smoker driving a newer model (they don’t come with ash trays anymore these days) this can be a VERY BIG DEAL. Luckily my car was too cheap to involve power seats…
Sam

Are we absolutely sure he isn’t just a very, VERY wet talker? You know the kind, where you swear they are trying to spit what they’re saying in braille on your forehead?
DangerousKindOfSnark

Um, like all cities Ft. Myers has its bad areas but there are many multi-million dollar homes along McGregor and Winkler. I have several friends who live in restored historic homes along the gulf and directly on McGregor. It’s actually quite a lovely area.

I will give you that Cape Coral is a shitty place though.
DangerousKindOfSnark

Be more specific huh? That is like the defacto 55 and over hairstyle in Florida.
Sam

Lol – how would we measure THAT kind of high? You have to be able to munch through no less than 3 bags of cheetos?
JohnQknowitall

Another case of Keep’n it real gone bad.
newstarshipsmell

Yes, spitting on someone is really considered battery. The surprise here is that it is also considered battery IN FLORIDA.
newstarshipsmell

Well, since we’re already on this track… We could force car manufacturers to install ignition systems in future models that include a hookah built into the engine/dashboard and some sort of exhaust/blow tube for exhaling into, that tallies up how much you’ve toked, and doesn’t start the engine until you’ve met some minimum. And we could use all the additional taxes from legalizing weed to pay for programs to scrap older cars and buy new ones or have the older vehicles equipped with the new ignition system.
Sam

You’ve thought entirely too much about this…
Deety

But how the fuck do you really feel about that fucking feature, JGo? :-p
Deety

Why do I get the feeling NSS spends his/her days searching the produce section of the grocery store looking for good bong-making materials?

We should kick it sometime, heh.
newstarshipsmell

Him, and no. Sure.
Deety

Honestly, if a guy did this to my fifty-something year old mother, I would probably block his car with mine, get out, drag him from his car, and beat him within an inch of his life, all while mom screamed at me to stop. I would, of course, submit the news story to the FP for proper judgement.

Do not disrespect my mama! >:-[
LeaveMeBe

I think if you had to be “so high” to operate a motor vehicle it would not only cut down on road rage incidents, it would also cut down on the number of food items that were thrown at other motorists, such as your donut. I am absolutely SHOCKED that you threw a perfectly good donut out the window. That really pisses me off. >:/
Sam

Now now, i didn’t say how long it had been fermenting under my seat prior to The Toss. Everybody knows you need at least 8 days in a moderately hot car for the jam centre to create an extra-satisfying pattern all over the recipient’s car.
Gee

I am with you sister…. This asshole would be spitting Teeth because I would have knocked them out with a tire iron. Spitting is nasty. Back when Gee was a young whipper snapper I got into more fights because my best friend went through a spitting phase. When ever she spit on someone I knew we were getting into it. She was only 4’11″ writing checks her ass couldn’t cash so I would step in and finish it. Yes Gee was a bit of a fighter!
newstarshipsmell

Why use a tire iron when you could use a crowbar instead?
LeaveMeBe

Haha! I have such a cute picture of you in my head scrappin’. We need to hang out and go cause some trouble.

You’re a better friend than me! If my friend had spit on someone and written a check her ass couldn’t cash, I would have stood back and let her get an NSF beating to drive the point home. I’m one of those “natural consequences are the best teacher” people.
Gee

I will be honest…. While Drinking, I had a couple of moments when my crocodile mouth got my jaybird ass into trouble. Yeah , I had a horrible sense of loyalty
LeaveMeBe

Crowbars are CT’s specialty. Gee’s specialty is antennas, but it must have tempoairily slipped her mind.
curiousalways

Morbid, I was assuming that was a picture of you the morn after a DD drunken podcast.
Gee

I know I said something about an antenna but for the life of me can not remember.
LMB refresh me
sherrdbw

Ah, Florida!
blubberdong

He looks like that spoiled Aruban woman-killing coward Joran Van der Splooge.
lalalandmamma

Funny enough, I am reading DD to get some peace after my 4 yo just spit on me. I was so livid, I wanted to slap all the teeth out of his cute little face, instead I hustled him to his room and locked the door. Are you telling me I can have him arrested instead of putting him in his room?
newstarshipsmell

Do you have a couple of Big Wheels?
http://twitter.com/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

What is up with people spitting on one another? I don’t understand it at all. That is disgusting.

I blame porn.
Coyote

Actually, that picture looks a lot like me at 7:15 on any morning…I don’t do ‘em well.
LeaveMeBe

Haha! I will promise you that my mouth never writes checks it can’t cash. You’re safe with me. If we dole out an ass-kicking, it will be because the other person is NSF.
Lena60

I’d be dead of severe dehydration. I’d leave for work at 7 a.m., and at 7:15 a.m. they’d find me dead in my truck, looking like this. I did not know you were a red head Morbid :p.
DangerousKindOfSnark

It is wretched. Drunks try to do it to the staff at my boyfriend’s hospital a lot. Unfortunately, if you wind up at the hospital from a drunken injury in most cases the doctor will rule you’re not fit to refuse care, hence the rest of the staff has to deal with your sorry ass.
kniption

I blame baseball. Either way, it is sad that an American pastime could lead to such abhorrent behavior…
LeaveMeBe

Here you go.

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2012/01/03/man-charged-with-stabbing-mans-eyes-with-knife-tv-antenna/
LeaveMeBe

I’m going to a Texas Rangers/Round Rock Express exhibition game tonight and am sitting right beside autograph alley so I will be sure and let them know how you feel. I will spit on them and tell them my name is kniption and they can find me through the DD.
Gee

Ha Ha ….. If you were a douche I bet you smell very pretty. Awwww… I feel refreshed now.

” ** Gee skips around waving said antenna like a Baton while singing ……” LMAO I remember now
DangerousKindOfSnark

I thought porn was the American pastime?
Cat_Lady

That’s what I look like after working a 12 hour night shift.
http://twitter.com/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

That’s why he said “either way”.
onlyme356

I love that he got caught! I hate people that mistreat the elderly, I helped an old man the other day because a cab driver was treating him like total crap, so I gave him a ride home. People don’t understand what respect for the elderly means anymore. And it wasn’t the old lady that was driving it was the son, he should have picked a fight with the right person. One day, if he’s lucky enough, he’ll live to be 75, maybe then he’ll understand. I’m sure his mother is so proud of him.
onlyme356

Why was the proper spank not delivered unto his “cute” little butt?
lalalandmamma

Oh yes, that was a definite. Can’t have him growing up to be a no consequences teenaged brat.
Collinitzki

He was pissed about supposedly being cutoff but he retaliated by spitting on the passenger?
Sam

“Damn you for sitting on that side of the car causing it to veer across my lane. DAMN YOU I SAY!”

I missed that little tidbit. This guy may in fact not be as smart as he looks.
kimbev69

U crack me up, my son would throw pennies
http://twitter.com/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

Wait…this isn’t a crowbar? I thought tire iron and crow bar were one in the same.
Gee

Me too!
LeaveMeBe

Just call me Summer’s Eve.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWBV2FUY3OBYX3RNK6I44QSC7I Kwum

I wanted to spit on that bitch..er “victim” just watching the video.. typical annoying self righteous old crow .