Alleged food-fighter says he’s not guilty - Citing his address as "traveling" and his occupation as "gambling"

[clevfan]

This guy made me laugh, so I just had to post this article:

8-2-2005

Alleged food-fighter says he’s not guilty

By Elizabeth Dinan
seacoastonline.com


PORTSMOUTH - Citing his address as "traveling" and his occupation as "gambling," Kevin Cosgrove pleaded not guilty in Portsmouth District Court Monday to charges of assault, disorderly conduct and littering.

The assaults are the result of his allegedly throwing bagels and bread.

Cosgrove, 39, also turned down the offer of a court-appointed attorney, telling Judge Sharon DeVries, "I finished the 12 grades successfully, judge."

Cosgrove is charged with misdemeanor simple assault for allegedly throwing large chunks of bread and bagels at a woman and her 2-year-old son. That charge carries a possible jail sentence, DeVries told him.

He is also charged with a littering violation for throwing the bread during the Porter Street incident. He faces a third charge of disorderly conduct for creating a hazardous condition by allegedly "pelting" the bagels and bread at the woman and her son.

During Monday’s arraignment, Cosgrove told the judge he had "never seen these people before in my life." He added that the victims were in the area leaving charitable donations in a donor box when the incident occurred and that he believes a co-defendant was responsible for the bread attack.

"I didn’t do it," he said.

Cosgrove told the judge he was arrested 12 days after the incident, shortly after walking out of a church where he’d gone for a meal. He suggested that the arrest delay was proof of his innocence.

And although his Monday court date was a scheduled arraignment, Cosgrove suggested several times that the judge and he "work this out between the two of us."

Judge DeVries explained that the time to study details of the allegations are during a trial, which she scheduled for Sept. 20 and coupled his case with that of the alleged co-defendant.

While considering bail, the judge asked Cosgrove about his source of income.

"I gamble," he said. "I go to the race track."

"How do you make your money?" asked the judge.

"I win it," said Cosgrove. "Or I sell a painting, or rake some leaves. I’ve worked a lot of different trades over the years."

Portsmouth Police Lt.. Earl Case told the judge he’d come to know Cosgrove over the past several years and that he was "confident" Cosgrove would return for trial.

"He is a free spirit," Case told the judge.

"So if we don’t have him here on the 20th, you’ll go out and find him?" asked the judge.

Case nodded, then pointed to Cosgrove and said, "Just be here."

[Bobby C]

he was arrested...after walking out of a church where he’d gone for a meal.

Typical professional gambler.

[robin]

Typical ignorant comment

[jimmy the greek]

Cosgrove is charged with misdemeanor simple assault for allegedly throwing large chunks of bread and bagels at a woman and her 2-year-old son. That charge carries a possible jail sentence, DeVries told him.

lock him up and anybody else that engages in the wilful destruction of food when half the world is starving