Florida cops taser naked old timer

Hey!

It's America - everything is possible.

IMHO, tasering = torturing, the US once again shows they are some centuries behind....

nudity vs violence

oh come on people, everyone knows that in merkland nudity is equivalent to waving around an ak47 elsewhere in the world, and vice-versa.

Paris, as she'd look good either way.

Coat required?

[Quote] Kirk was charged with "prowling and resisting arrest with violence", and released on Sunday from Manatee County Jail after coughing $1,200 bail. [/Quote]

I like to think I'm law-abiding but I think if I was going to be 'arrested with violence' I'd be tempted to resist.

- I'll take the electrically-grounded coat please.

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Obviously, he might have had a hidden weapon. LOL.

Tasers cause far more problems than they solve.

Tasers are abused about 100:1 more often than they're used 'properly'.

In Montreal, the AVERAGE number of officers at each tasering is SIX.

Pain Compliance with a taser, being severe pain, is a clear violation of the prohibition against torture. This is the law of the land almost everywhere.

Etc.

Britain shows how it SHOULD be done

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7096456.stm

Taser a man in a coma. He must have been a massive threat. He would have probably drooled on them.

:-D

swinging a club

give the cops some slack; clearly the guy was armed with wood

I can play the Ignorant Generalizations game too!

Well I suppose tasering him isn't quite as humane as shooting him in the back of the head as he ran away.

Maybe our guys to take some lessons from the Canadians, they seem more up on tasering techniques.

The Tasers aren't the problem

It's not the tasers that are the problem. In fact, statistically, hitting someone with a taser is far less likely to cause injury than manhandling them or pepper spray (allergy to OC).

It's the attitude of the police departments that's the problem. They treat it as the "push button situation" for ANY situation as opposed to evaluating what's going on and making a proper call. It’s a result of teaching the police officers that every citizen is their enemy so that they don’t feel bad for extracting additional tax revenue from them on a daily basis (parking tickets, red-light cameras, etc…).

“Protect and serve”, my ass!!

The worst ones IMHO are the ones where someone was tasered then let go without charges. There should be ABSOLUTELY NO CIRCUMSTANCE where charges are not justified but a tasering is.

My back yard

Being 65 doesn't make you a helpless old man, and if this old fart was stupid enough to try and ESCAPE from the cops and RESIST them he deserved it. There's nothing wrong with a taser you pussies. Would you rather they go back to the billy club?

And when kids stop tasering themselves and laughing hysterically on youtube, perhaps any arguments about tasers = torture might hold some water, right now, I think you can all STFU.

PS I live in bradenton and there are an absolute ton of psychopaths running around every day. In some of my companies stores, old "harmless" people just like this guy come in to our stores and masturbate in the dressing rooms!! If this senior citizen really was harmless, he shouldn't have ran, the cops would have figured something out for the poor bastard.

Actually, he WAS armed ...

Indeed, he had TWO arms.

But apart from that seems to have been 'arming nobody. Total misuse of an offensive weapon.

@Anonymous Coward and Bill Fresher

AC: "So the cops are now so fat on doughnuts they can't handle an unarmed 65-year-old without tasering him?"

BF: I don't know about you but I wouldn't want to handle a naked 65 year old geezer.

Oh come on, read the story you two! It makes it perfectly clear: the *real* problem is that cops are now so fat on doughnuts that they can't *run* as fast as a 65-year-old.

Let alone handle him if they ever caught up.

@My back yard

"Being 65 doesn't make you a helpless old man"

Good observation.

Believe it or not kiddies there are 65 year old men quite capable of killing you with their bare hands. I could introduce you to a couple if you like. No? Maybe you should try moving beyond your comic book images of 'the elderly' and actually try something called 'thinking' once in a while.

Re: My back yard

"And when kids stop tasering themselves and laughing hysterically on youtube, perhaps any arguments about tasers = torture might hold some water, right now, I think you can all STFU."

Kids also do many other things that would normally only appear on Jackass or in a torture manual. Think Chinese/Idian burns,German snipes, sticking needles into fingers.

It's called proving how tough you are. If it wasn't painful it wouldn't be tough.

taseing

I thought it said they'd TEASED a naked 65 yo ...

Its a Set Up!

If a 70+ Year old is allowed to run for president and have his finger on the big red button then a 65 year old is allowed a good tasering.

Its all about equality although i do smell a electoral plant here. Just look out for John (The Oven Chip) McCain and Ralph ( Lord Vader) Nader both sighting this as a example that old folk can still be extremely dangerous and bad to know.

It will help reassure the electorate that they can still be as dangerous as them young uns! The lengths party supporters will go to for their candidates though is impressive.

Think about the savings

I support taser on will. After all most of of the time nothing happens so a death or two or hidden lingering health problems shouldn't be that much of an issue. And it'll probably be over whenever the sonic or visual stun weapons are deployed widescale. Think about it, all the law enforcers will be absolutely safe to make their work. They will be able to stun you to the floor as first measure, just in case. That way the suspect can't do anything to harm themselves either. Hell, why not a multidevice that does all three things at the same time!

Plus you'll get huge savings in all sort of training courses law enforcement doesn't need. No common sense will be required by the cops. it will make their life easier since they won't have to be in a good physical shape either. And since they will all be non lethal, it'll be easy for them to respond with properly graded force.

Of course it'd have to be illegal for the public to own any of these devices, or be serverely underpowered, or each dischange be thoroughly investigated and tracked by GPS. Because, you see, they have such a potential for abuse by any person.

But rest in peace because most cops aren't persons anyway.

@ 6 year old handcuffed. What next ??

What's next, according to your ambulance-chasing comment, is wildly blowing things out of proportion in much the same fashion the police in the article did.

Ironic.

The 6 year old had been handcuffed to provide a startle to the kid.

New

New , rumor has it that the new motto for all the US State and City police forces is now "to abuse and terrorize all " , for if the US President in the new Union of the Soviet States of Amerika can ignore all laws of Congress with impunity so can they too ! After all it is a lead by example world we live in and a new century where the presidential war against his own people began on that fateful day in November 2000 , for previous to that day only the racial minorities suffered extensive abuse at their hands with impunity !

Perhaps they have deep down desire to tase their own mother in law , their wife and all the annoying family relatives and everyone else they encounter at the same time !

You all seem to have missed a point

in the article (or deliberately chose to keep quiet on the fact), that the guy had been pepper-sprayed prior to being tasered and that the pepper spray had had no effect. i.e he was violent when they went to arrest him, they pepper sprayed him and he remained violent, so they tasered him.

Don't really have a problem with that since they used pepper spray first. Anyone DUMB enough to keep trying to resist arrest after being hit by pepper spray deserves a few thousand volts (preferably administered via the testicles so that we can remove them from the gene pool - though admittedly with this guy were probably too late to stop him infecting the gene pool with his own pond scum).

Ups to the cops for following CORRECT procedure.

Ren & Stimpy

"Being 65 doesn't make you a helpless old man, and if this old fart was stupid enough to try and ESCAPE from the cops and RESIST them he deserved it. "

Ehm...the fact that he was roaming the streets naked wouldn't set any alarm bells ringing that he might be a thermos flask short of a picnic, and therefore should be handled with a bit more consideration than those who set out to cause trouble in full mental capacity?

Then again, maybe where you are in Bradenton going au naturel in public is the done thing so I can see where the confusion arose.

Penguins don't wear no stinkin' clothes either.