WTF is wrong with people?

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by chippewastud79

In Kentucky, you pretty much need to be bloodied for it to be assault.

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).