A 31-year old Kentucky woman arrested for public intoxication faces an additional charge for squirting breast milk into face of her jailer.

The Owensboro, Kentucky woman was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor count of public intoxication and while changing into a jail uniform she allegedly sprayed a stream of breast milk into the face of a female deputy.

The deputy went through a “biohazard” decontamination process and the woman was booked on an additional charge of third degree assault on a police officer, a felony.

Reports of the case have sparked debates and any number of lewd jokes about whether using breast milk as a weapon should constitute a felony assault case, with many commentors likening it to an accused person spitting on an officer.

Also sparking comment has been the use of the term "bio-hazard" to describe breast milk.
The female jailer faces weeks of medical monitoring to ensure she was not contaminated by the HIV virus.

The squirter was being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.