The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.
“If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.”
“I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.”