Senior Prank?

[BryanD]

Originally posted by Radar
By your definition bumping into someone on a crowded sidewalk is also battery.

Yup - it's battery. It is up the the "battered" individual to decide whether to press charges. Most of the time, they decline.

Originally posted by Radar
Is calling it battery somehow supposed to make this harmless prank any more scary or evil? Because it doesn't.

I didnt say scary or evil. I said illegal. The response to scary or evil is "Eek! Kill it!". The response to illegal is usually arrest. In that case (as shown above) it is often up to the offended to decide whether arrest occurs. In this particular instance, the prevailing statutes may have dictated that decision.