WTF is wrong with people?

Originally Posted by icehog3

Yup, the word "assault" means very different things from state to state. In Illinois, your example would be "battery".

In Illinois, there also is no "assault and battery", as when you have battered someone, you have moved past assault, and if you have simply assaulted someone, you could not have committed a battery (all by IL definitions).

I am pretty confident that my dating life can be defined as "Assault and Flattery".