Let's TASER all the Irritating people!

[baby_mouse]

Hooray! I had no idea it was going to end up being morally acceptable to taser annoying people! At last, something about the 21st Century that I like! I shall BUY a taser and start using it FORTHWITH on:

1. People who push in front of me in queues
2. Boring people
3. Anyone with a turned up nose or freckles
4. Celebrities
5. People who stop at traffic lights in their highly customised annoymobiles with their annoying music turned up ANNOYINGLY LOUD
6. Wearers of ugly, unfashionable clothes
7. Anyone who likes "Pearl Harbour" or "13 Ghosts" or the idiotic remake of "The Wicker Man"
8. Anyone who describes themselves as "stoked"
9. People who can't spell
10. etc.

[jpgray]

1. We're lucky to finally have a GD thread that addresses this aspect of the issue

And makes this unique argument.

[JVS]

2. taze this clown

[jpgray]

4. People know I'm here. You can't kill me.

[JVS]

5. watch me

[jpgray]

8. Don't tase me, bro!

[JVS]

16. quit resisting

[jpgray]

19. In seriousness, cops shouldn't have tried to walk him. They definitely shouldn't have tased his ass

But based on past behavior guy liked to look for incidents, and he got one. Doesn't make the cops right (at all), but it doesn't make him Rosa Parks either.

[JVS]

23. It's funny you would say that because Parks had been looking for incidents before 12/1955

I'm not saying they are the same, but the whole "He was looking for trouble" line doesn't wash

[jpgray]

24. Rosa Parks often described herself as a heckler who likes to play jokes to piss people off

Clearly the motives, methods and general dignity of the two are directly comparable.

[Rhiannon12866]

74. Oh, Jesus! Do you mean that if Rosa Parks was active now she would have been tasered?!

That sure would have changed history, and not for the better...:scared:

But somehow I don't see this hyper college student, no matter what his motives, as another Rosa Parks...:shrug:

[Heidi]

82. I also doubt that Rosa Parks would have registered a domain name,

TheRosaParks.com, or signed up an email address like [e-mail]

I don't think Andrew Meyer should have been tasered, but he's sure no self-less unsung hero "taking one for the team." If _anything_ good comes out of this, it will be a more open debate of what constitutes excessive force, what constitutes the constitutional right to dissent, etc. But I truly don't think Andrew Meyer had any intention of advancing those worthwhile debates when he was telling another student to be sure and film him just before he took the mic to ask his questions.

ETA: Hi, Rhiannon! :hug: :pals:

[Rhiannon12866]

99. Great points, Heidi! Thanks!

This guy and Rosa Parks have little in common. She had an important and legitimate cause, while Andrew Meyer, from what I've read, seems to just be an attention whore, with no cause that I can discern. But, the last I checked, attention seeking behavior isn't against the law, yet...:-(

I agree that it wouldn't have occurred to Rosa Parks to take her cause on-line, even if she were around today. She had far too much on her mind and everybody knows that older folks aren't necessarily conversant with the internets...;)

And I agree that he shouldn't have been tasered, since he was just irritating people, definitely not against the law and was no threat to anyone. But your point is well taken. I have been, like others on DU, gotten weary of the excessive coverage of this in the media, but you are absolutely right, that this could open a dialog on the use of excessive force and when it is appropriate, which is definitely worth it...:-)

Great to run into you and please also give my best to CallMeWesley. I've missed you both. I still miss my baby, Meneken, terribly, but I still have my puppy, Jack. I'm back, me and my little dog, too...:D

Rhiannon & Jack:hi::pals:

My puppy, Jack:loveya:

[Heidi]

102. Okay, this is the first photo I've seen of Jack.

I'm totally in :loveya:

Sooooo good to see you, my friend! Our best to you, gf! :hug:

[Rhiannon12866]

105. Both Meneken and Jack are on my sig, which Cooley Hurd animated for me.

Meneken is sticking his tongue out at everyone and winking and Jack is the blinker. They're both Brussels Griffons, from rescue, amazingly enough, and both rough coat, but Meneken was only eight pounds, while Jack tipped the scales at 14 on his last vet visit!:wow:

Glad you enjoyed the pic and my best to you, always, my friend...:hug:

[JVS]

104. I could easily see her being tasered

Get to the back of the bus.

No.

zap

[Rhiannon12866]

106. Yikes! Actually, I can too.

If they turned hoses on folks protesting peacefully, no doubt that they would have tasered a lone "uppity" black lady who wouldn't move to the back of the bus...:-(

Thank God that they didn't have tasers back then or this could have changed history, stopped the civil rights movement in its tracks...:scared:

[Kutjara]

3. I'm just going to taser people at random.

Chances are they deserve it. Most people become irritating sooner or later, so why should I waste my time waiting for the inevitable? I'll just zap 'em and move on!

[eridani]

11. Pre-emptive TASERing? That's appalling!

Call Code Pink and MoveOn ASAP!

[Kutjara]

14. I'm only tasering them over there so I don't have to taser them over here. n/t

[Apollo11]

29. Finally - someone who is willing to stand up and taser others

;-)

[EFerrari]

6. Tase away, you'll never stop us.

:rofl:

[baby_mouse]

10. ZAP! I TASER you!

PEW PEW!

[EFerrari]

18. Missed me! I was ranting on another thread!

:rofl:

[baby_mouse]

20. Stay still, damn you! Stop being light-hearted!

:crazy:

[frogcycle]

7. ok, except for #3

turned up nose and freckles sounds, well, not like someone to taze

[baby_mouse]

15. I just threw that in for surrealism.

And I guess I could live with the unfashionable people. But the boring people could do with being livened up.

[mike_c]

9. the really convenient thing about living in a police state...

...is that EVERYONE is probably breaking the law, at least some of the time. Hell, you can taser 'em in the name of law and order!

[rawtribe]

12. We can start at Free Republic

then work our way to the Lounge.



:evilgrin:

[baby_mouse]

26. Round up the freeps, strip 'em buck-naked, put 'em in a metal room and

TASE THE BASTARDS!!!

:D :D :D :D :rofl:

[Mythsaje]

13. I'm for tasering people who carry stuff all over retail stores

and throw them down wherever the hell they feel like it.

[baby_mouse]

17. ...and people who change their minds about their order at Costas when there's a huge queue...

...just as the dreg-drone has finished making up their coffee...

BZZZZZZZT!

Also, we need a taser smilie.

[rawtribe]

21. OK

[baby_mouse]

22. You rule.

:D

[EFerrari]

25. Nice hair.

lol

[Generic Other]

112. OMG I am guilty

please mr saje, mercy!!!

[Mythsaje]

113. You're safe...

Our PDA scanners don't have a taser setting.

;)

[Heidi]

27. But, but, but, baby_mouse . . .

I have freckles and a turned up nose! Hell, I'm frecklier than Lindsay Lohan, whom I once saw but (did not hear) when I was stopped at a traffic light in my tricked out 1979 Toyota Corolla and listening to a compilation mix of the "Pearl Harbor" and "13 Ghosts" soundtracks at about 700 decibels. It was a sunny afternoon and I was feeling totally stoked because I was lookin' hawter than Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan _combined_: platform flip-flops, control-top pantyhose (taupe), triple-tight orange Capris pants and a turquoise tube top (which offered no visible or realistic means of comfort or support), etc.

(Your not board yet, our you? If so, please take you're place in the queue.

:P

Edited: (Speeling)

[baby_mouse]

33. I forgive you.

Because you are you. However, please understand that this is a parole situation and if I hear that you have done ANY of the following:

1. Broken up with someone via text message
2. Worn large circular ear-rings and waved your finger at someone such that they jangle to and fro
3. Consumed a large bag of tortilla chips in an enclosed public space, thus filling the atmosphere with a socky, tortillaish smell
4. Used ...."l33t" speak.... EVER....
5. Posted "lol! yr funny!!!" on ANY PART OF THE INTERNET (Bzzt, twitch, zap)
6. Dissed Hayao Miyazaki on the imdb message boards
7. Chewed gum with your mouth open
8. Tipped a cow
9. Failed to appreciate the titanic genius of Siouxsie Sioux ...

...I'll light you up like the mothership from Close Encounters.

So THERE.

[Heidi]

36. Does the fact that I grew up in Oklahoma

afford me any latitude, re: Point 8 (cow tipping)?

(plz, i ned 2 no. ok thx bai! )

[baby_mouse]

41. HOW. MANY. COWS?

The thinnest of thin ice, Heidi.

Next you'll be telling me you listen to Jeff Buckley.

[Heidi]

43. I didn't really tip a cow.

I sat in the car and watched for cops and armed farmers while my redneck friends tipped cows. :evilgrin:

[baby_mouse]

48. I'm sending you a taser through the post.

YOU know what to do...

[Heidi]

49. "Thank you, sir. May I have another"?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

61. Hilarious!

:rofl:

And a little sad. :hide: :P

[Heidi]

67. Are you mocking my uneventful existence?

:rofl: :spray:

[Apollo11]

28. Historical perspective

Annie Kenney, together with Christabel Pankhurst, has somewhat of a run-in with Mr Winston Churchill on 13th October 1905 in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester when she posed the question to Churchill and Sir Edward Grey, "If you are elected will you do your best to make women's suffrage a Government measure?".

http://www.iknow-northwest.co.uk/tourist_information/manchester/oldham/saddleworth.htm


Campaign for Women's suffrage continues

On 14 October, two young women decided to go to prison rather than pay a fine for causing a disturbance. Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney were the first to be jailed for demanding the right to vote.

Uproar broke out at Manchester Free Trade Hall, England, when the women demanded to know if a Liberal government would give women the vote. Their protest came at the end of an election address by leading Liberal politician Sir Edward Grey, when Pankhurst and Kenney stood up and unfurled their banner, saying "Votes for Women". Their behaviour provoked an angry reaction from the crowd, who threw the two into the street, where they were arrested by police.

In 1903, Christabel Pankhurst had founded the Women's Political and Social Union with her mother Emmeline Pankhurst, the pioneer of women's suffrage. The arrest marked a new militancy in what would have been a peaceful political campaign.

http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/chronicle/1905.html


Christabel Pankhurst
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christabel Pankhurst (September 22, 1880 – February 13, 1958) was a suffragette born in Manchester, England.

Along with her mother Emmeline and others, Christabel co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. In 1905, Christabel Pankhurst interrupted a Liberal Party meeting by shouting demands for voting rights for women. She was arrested and along with fellow suffragette Annie Kenney went to prison rather than pay a fine as punishment for their outburst. Their case gained much media interest and the ranks of the WSPU swelled following their trial. Emmeline began to take more militant action for the suffragette cause after her daughter's arrest and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christabel_Pankhurst


Imagine if the British police had tasers back in 1905 ... :eyes:

[lapfog_1]

30. Please add to your list anyone that stops to have their receipts

checked at Circuit City!!!

Or rather, anyone that doesn't submit to an illegal search and skips through the receipt check!

:rofl:

[Kiouni]

31. 11) Gingers!!!

[baby_mouse]

34. 12) Anyone who lisps!

[Heidi]

39. What's a Ginger?

How will I know if I am one? :shrug:

[baby_mouse]

40. DNA testing.

Also, eating too many ginger snaps.

(hmmm... Why ARE red-headed people referred to as "ginger"? why not "Turmeric" or "Chilli-heads"?)

[Heidi]

42. I just checked urbandictionary.

I am one. In combination with my effervescent personality and striking fashion sense, this probably will be too much for most onlookers to bear. :rofl: :spray:

[baby_mouse]

45. I'm surprised you haven't been struck by lightning.

I now understand the platform flip-flops. THICK rubber soles.

[Heidi]

46. _Everyone's_ amazed I haven't been struck by lightning,

though perhaps for different reasons than those cited upthread. :yoiks:

[YOY]

83. ...

[Heidi]

87. *blink*

But I doooooooooo have a soul (or at least I had one when I was six years old.) x(

[YOY]

88. It's a South Park joke

Cartman starts a rumor (or so I recall) that ginger kids have no souls and the other kids start to discriminate against them. The oppressed and rejected ginger kids start a cult-like group to kill off the oppressors as a result. Cartman disguises himself as a ginger in the show and leads them from destructions...almost. I suppose the allegory is that when you discriminate/reject someone from your society based off of bs, they will eventually organize and not be too friendly back.

That being said. Sorry, you clearly have no soul being a ginger. O8) (Call it a joking fake discrimination.)

[Heidi]

89. It's because many of are are so pale, I'm sure.

However, I am able to attain a reasonable summer tan to hide my soulessness. Consider yerself Tased, smartypants. :P

[YOY]

91. BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!

I deserved that...

Don't tase me sis!

[Heidi]

92. Hahahahahahaha!

This is _absolutely_ the best of ALL the GD (General Discussion, to clarify) Taser threads. :rofl: :spray:

[cgrindley]

32. 13 ghosts was awesome, I've lectured on it

once at a conference in Ireland. It rocks.

[baby_mouse]

35. Are we talking about the same film???

You surely do NOT mean that silly thing with the ghost-viewing X-ray specs?

[cgrindley]

37. Yep, that'd be the one

it is one film in a long line of many that depicts printed books from the Renaissance as being inherently evil. Try finding a positive depiction of a Renaissance text in a film. It's difficult. And yet the Renaissance represented the birth of scholarship and science... a time that began to challenge old superstitions.

[baby_mouse]

38. You've lost me completely.

Is what you've posted immediately intended to be understood as an endorsement of the movie? Cos it sounds like the opposite. And even then it doesn't sound like enough to make it a good movie to *me*.

Are you talking about the original or the remake? I'm talking about the remake.

[bananas]

50. Renaissance - the band

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_%28band%29


Former Yardbirds members Paul Samwell-Smith, Keith Relf, and Jim McCarty organised a new group devoted to experimentation between rock, folk, and classical forms. This quintet (Relf on guitar & vocals, McCarty on drums, plus bassist Louis Cennamo, pianist John Hawken, and Relf's sister Jane Relf as an additional vocalist) released a pair of albums on Elektra (US) and Island (UK), the first one being produced by Samwell-Smith, but dissolved quickly, leaving McCarty to reform the band into a very different lineup, though McCarty also soon departed.

The reconstituted lineup that was eventually settled on was the best-known of the band's history, and consisted of Annie Haslam (vocals), Michael Dunford (acoustic guitar), John Tout (piano), Jon Camp (bass/vocals) and Terence Sullivan (drums). This new Renaissance -- with Dunford in a composer-only role for the time being, and Rob Hendry (electric guitar) filling the guitarist's chair -- released Prologue in 1972 Sovereign Records (UK). The music was written by Dunford and McCarty, with lyrics by poet Betty Thatcher. Hendry departed (to be ultimately replaced by Dunford) as the group turned away from the electric guitar in their music.

<snip>

[JNelson6563]

44. start with suck up and vanity posters in GD

:toast:

[baby_mouse]

47. That's most of them.

How are we going to power all these tasers? Maybe we should stick wind turbines next to some of the louder streams of invective. Then we could just wire them up to their own personal taser.

[shenmue]

51. They didn't taser him because he was annoying.

He was screaming and refusing to listen to anyone who told him to stop, including the hosts.

When the police came to escort him out, he pushed and shoved all the way across the floor.

Free speech does *not* give you a right to scream and create a disturbance in public. That's called disorderly conduct.

Where did you get the idea that people have a right to fight with police officers?

You have no respect for the law, simply because the idiot was yammering about something that *you* would like to say.

It's a shame people like you get to vote.

[baby_mouse]

52. ...So many kinds of FAIL.

1. "He was screaming and refusing to listen to anyone who told him to stop, including the hosts."

Then obviously he should be TASERED. Annoying people should be TASERED.

2. "When the police came to escort him out, he pushed and shoved all the way across the floor."

Taser the pushers! Taser the shovers!

3. "Free speech does *not* give you a right to scream and create a disturbance in public. That's called disorderly conduct."

Taser the screaming people! Taser the weeds in your herbacious border! Taser the dirty homeless! Taser the disorderly! Re-order the world with electric compliance devices!

4. "Where did you get the idea that people have a right to fight with police officers?"

Cops are good! Screaming people are bad! Taser the screamers!

5. "You have no respect for the law, simply because the idiot was yammering about something that *you* would like to say."

:rofl:

6. "It's a shame people like you get to vote."

*wristbrow* Well, that's something you're just going to have to live with, I'm afraid...

[liberalnurse]

53. Well said.

It is the disruptor's behavior which make access to public venues and events a task! The uneasiness and tense anxiety created from the unpredictability of such impulsive showboating drama seekers have placed a "toll" on the compliant participant.

Think back to Martin Luther King Day's. He was never a drama disruptor, ever; nor was Rosa Parks,...she sat on the bus, quietly, he sat at the soda fountain counter.......they both are world changes.

He earned his consequence as he failed to follow commands, was unpredictable, resisted arrest and would not comply.....Similar to the rules of event etiquette he chose to ignore as well. He started it.

[Warren Stupidity]

55. resisted arrest - would not comply

and therefore would be tasered.

[baby_mouse]

58. If, in all seriousness...

... you are suggesting that electrocuting someone because they are making a nuisance of themselves is an appropriate use of force, I'm very much afraid that your screen-name causes a bit of head-scratching. You are of the medical profession? You are aware that tasers can have drastic effects on people with heart problems? You are aware that heart problems can occur at any age?

[Warren Stupidity]

54. It's a shame people like you get to vote.

Yes. Perhaps the authorities can purge the voter rolls of such people. That is a very good point you make as it illuminates the mindset of those who applaud the use of excessive force by the police.

[baby_mouse]

63. Quite so. Perhaps I should be stun-belted and watched carefully as I tick my little box?

... to meet hyperbole with its like, forgive me, but whyever not? It would certainly save on all those vote fraud investigations. Just wire up the populace and get them to vote how YOU want.

I think electrocuting people with no knowledge of their medical history is dim-witted. It seems that this opinion casts doubts over my viability to participate in the democratic process. How peculiar.

I wonder if Mr "no taser, no vote" intends to return to this thread and defend his position? Whatever it is.

[piesRsquare]

56. Let's OVERSIMPLIFY every issue!

Even better!

[baby_mouse]

59. Recomplicate the issue for me such that the use of the taser was acceptable.

I'm all ears.

[Cobalt Violet]

57. I can't believe that so many here think it's acceptable.

It's just so sad. They don't care that over 200 people have died from being tasered. I'm just sick. I can't understand why so many so called progressive think that it's okay to taser annoying people.

Maybe I don't fit in here.

[baby_mouse]

60. An eye-opener, isn't it?

One might suppose that we were discussing the use of a whoopee cushion or a feather duster rather than an electrocution device.

[Cobalt Violet]

62. Flogging can't be too far away.

These people will accept it especially for the annoying.

[baby_mouse]

66. The concept of what a human right IS appears to have have bypassed them somewhat.

But never mind. We'll all become famous on Youtube as we are filmed twitching our way spastically to the cells with our hair standing on end and a lot of people will be laughing with us along the way. What's not to like? We'll be FAMOUS. And the more attention we get, the more we'll deserve it.

Pathetic.

[Squatch]

70. Mouse, I'm with you on this 100%

Last weekend, 190 folks were arrested for being "disorderly" and a "nuisance" on the Capitol grounds. There was much gnashing of teeth on DU on how these people were being harrased for exercising their rights.

Now, when DU's favorite Dem finds himself on the wrong side of the same issue, the cops are magically justified in electrocuting one single, unarmed, non-dangerous person while a (presumably) powerful senator is woefully unable to "interfere with police business."

[midlife_mo_Jo]

84. The entire point of being on the Capitol grounds

was to march and protest; therefore, the marchers should have been able to act in a disruptive manner as long as property and other people's safety wasn't compromised.

The Andrew Meyer debacle is quite different. The organizers set rules for decorum and speaking, and when Andrew refused several times to back away from the mike, the organizers were well within THEIR RIGHTS to ask the cops to remove him.

When he refused to go peacefully, the cops attempted to escort him out. When he refused to go peacefully, he was a subject of arrest. He continued to resist arrest.

Should he have been tasered? Very probably not. However, watching the video you can clearly see that he is belligerent and fighting the cops the entire time. I have no doubt that he deserved to have charges pressed.

[jonnyblitz]

94. it's because he disrupted a KERRY EVENT. THAT is why

It made their hero look bad.

and of course they keep saying 'IT IS NOT ABOUT THE TASERING" and tell you all the vile things about this guy like THAT justifies the tasering even though it isn't about that. :crazy:

[LeftHander]

64. DU forums should require USB Taser device

Rather than lock threads Mods issue a taser command to the posting IP address.

Lets put the action where our mouths are and start tasering ourselves. How could we police society with tasers unless we are willing to taser our own first...

??

:>P

[Heidi]

72. I agree that such a feature should be available to the Mods.

[Kazak]

65. Hell, most DUers should apply...

I would think the majority of us would like to have answers to the very same questions that young man was daring to ask.

[raccoon]

68. We need a Taser emoticon, yall.

Just type :taser:

It could look like a little man lying down with wavy lines around him.

[Heidi]

69. Here ya go:

Plus: assimilate

[raccoon]

71. Thank you! nt

[toadzilla]

73. celebrities yes! whos first? Brittney?

[baby_mouse]

78. Vanilla Ice.

Or did I hallucinate him? I find it hard to tell these days...

[toadzilla]

108. well if were going for c list celebrities, i vote flavor flav.

[YOY]

75. We need only tase one idividual...repeated every 5 minutes

"Mr." B. Natural

"Mr." B Natural regretfully must suffer this indignity until he/she for the "greater good" of the people.

That and I kinda liked 13 Ghosts. It wasn't great, but it wasn't that bad. It had Tony Shaloub in it after all.

[baby_mouse]

76. I wilt in your general direction.

"The Child and the Dying Mother." "The Torso."

Me and my pals were rolling on the floor with laughter, saying: "The Fish and the Undercooked Pop-Tart! The Plastic Ferret! the Blunt Nailclippers!" Which, admittedly, perhaps says more about us than the movie.

[YOY]

80. Meh...you're probably right.

I still see it as mediocre and not the worst of all time.

Worst of all time would have to be "Glitter". I caught a few minutes of it. Phenomenally bad. Just bad. Bad acting. Bad plot. That and "Showgirls" which actually made tired of looking at naked nubile females.

[Rhiannon12866]

77. Yiikes! That does sound tempting, if you put it that way, and very satisfying...

I agree with most of your choices and have a few of my own.:-)

1. People who block the aisles of grocery stores with their carts, when I'm in a hurry...
2. Anybody who beats me to a parking space that I've been waiting for.
3. The jerk behind me in traffic who blasts his horn the second that the light changes.
4. People with bad grammar.
5. Fools who let their pets run loose, especially if I see them in the road.:-(
6. The guy sitting next to me on an airplane who had the music on his headphones turned up so loud that I could hear it.
7. Anybody on an infomercial.
8. Somebody who calls somebody else "dude."
9. Anybody over 12 who wears a cowboy hat.
10. My brother.;)

[Cetacea]

79. How about Cats?

I know it may give her a heart attack, but heck, her behavior has been upsetting me lately.

[Rhiannon12866]

81. No, not kitties!

People know what they're doing. Cats are just being themselves...:-)

My cat, Rhiannon:loveya:

[Cetacea]

96. She is beautiful!

I've never seen long hair on a black cat.

[Rhiannon12866]

97. Thanks, and she does have very long hair and is unique in a lot of ways.

She is fearless, which scares me, since the poor cat is declawed, and she can also be irritating as hell, insists on attention, won't take no for an answer, keeps poking you until you pay attention, LOL, and is very smart, so gets into everything, loves to shove things off counters and tables. We call it her "gravity experiments" LOL. If I did taser anybody, it would be my SO's dog, who outweighs me and still hasn't learned not to jump on people *sigh*, but he's just being a dog. I accept the fact that I'm responsible for my guys' behavior, and if they misbehave, it's up to me to teach them better...:-)

[Cetacea]

101. "Gravity experiments" lol. Mine does that too.

She always has a mischievous expression as she stares at the object for quite some time after knocking it over.:rofl:
"Gravity experiments". That is priceless!

[Rhiannon12866]

103. Doesn't it look like they're conducting experiments with gravity?! LOL.

They have this intent look on their faces, push something off, and watch it with great concentration and interest as it falls. And they never get tired of it... Neither do I, actually, since it is so amusing to watch.:D

[lonestarnot]

85. mice, let's taser mice.

[baby_mouse]

90. You jest, of course.

Mice live behind skirting boards. They get electrocuted all the time.

[IronLionZion]

86. Your rights end where the next person's start

That fellow was not tasered for being annoying.

He was tasered because he wanted to be tasered. He had more than enough warnings. I think the taser option is better than the more violent options that privileged white people don't know about.

[baby_mouse]

95. If all you're interested in...

...is establishing which potentially fatal method is to be employed by SIX police officers extensively trained in how to restrain people in apprehending ONE unarmed man then our short conversation would appear to be at an end, as I have no idea what to say to you.

[IronLionZion]

98. Have you been in that sort of situation before?

Have you been on the restraining end? Human beings can do a lot of damage with only their arms and legs, especially when restraining someone who is flailing around deliberately resisting removal/arrest. The person flailing around can do a lot of damage to innocent bystanders as well. The officers have a lot to think of in a short amount of time and public safety is probably #1.

I support the police on this one. I know my view is unpopular, but I'm sticking to it.

There are many things we probably agree on but we're just going to have to disagree on this one.
Have a nice day.

[Solon]

107. Question, if the cops didn't have a taser, do you think they should have shot and killed him?

Yes or no, and no conflating shit either.

[IronLionZion]

111. No

Happy now?

[in_cog_ni_to]

93. Don't forget the teachers who don't want to take GUNS to school to keep students in line!

Have at 'em!

[Kelly Rupert]

100. Can we Taser anyone who starts Taser threads?

[LynneSin]

109. Wait - 13 Ghosts was a great movie - I'm gonna taser you

[baby_mouse]

110. OW!

You nasty person.

BTW 13 Ghosts SUCKED. It sucked maggot dicks through a straw.

A BENDY straw.