Assault is a threat of physical injury . Battery is physical injury or unwanted touching . There was implied consent to the horsing around initially . When he tapped out , it the choke became unwanted , and a battery occurred . <| sep |> Classic Lingard , world class goal , completely retarded celebration . <| sep |> If I ever found myself a head of state for a nation doing this , I would calmly direct my staff to collect the private personal data of everyone in CongressParliament in exhaustive detail because doing so would be perfectly legal to do , and then present it to said politicians explaining how it was completely legal for me to do so . Then I would politely ask them to stop supporting those laws . Followed , of course , by it being made illegal to spy on them specifically , while still being okay to do so to the rest of the population . And that being followed by my looking to see if there ' s any way I could legally release said information about them .