Why Fark has a Florida tag

By adamg on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 9:02am

Student Tasered At Sen. Kerry Event In Florida:

... As Kerry tells the audience he will answer the student's "very important question," Meyer struggles on the ground and yells at the officers to release him, crying out, "Don't Tase me, bro," just before he is Tasered. He is then led from the room, screaming, "What did I do?" ...

Tom Finneran, meanwhile, apparently found the tasering quite funny.

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Comments

Update: Fraud!

By adamg on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 4:51pm.

Boston Magazine has the scoop. Still, it figures it happened in Florida.

Disrespecting a lawful assembly, that's a tazerin'

By Parker Posey on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 4:58pm.

He was shooting his mouth off, refusing to acknowledge anything that was being said to him and tries to fight off the police when they try to escort him out. I can't blame the cops here. As for John Kerry, he once again proved he is an ass.

It's a good thing all he got was a tazing.

By Dave on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 8:29pm.

He could have been raped, gotten his ears cut off, had his head cut off, had wires from portable telephones taped to his genitals and had the power turned up, had his limbs cut off, been blown up...

Remember When...

By BrucemB on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 8:35pm.

Remember when Tasers were issued to police so that they'd have a less-than-lethal alternative available to them in situations where they'd otherwise be justified in using lethal force.

Nowadays, they're meerly a labor saving device for cops who don't feel like breaking a sweat to bring an unruly individual under control.

While I think the Taser is a great option for cops to have, if any cop uses one in a situation where he wouldn't be justified in putting a couple slugs in the perp's torso, he should be removed from the force.

And, people call us gun owners "trigger happy" "knuckle-draggers".