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Shooting Mistake Puts 'Hostile' Man in Hospital
Kitsap Sun ^
| June 23, 2006
| Brynn Grimley
Posted on 06/24/2006 8:26:19 AM PDT by seowulf
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I didn't it was against the law to climb a tree and act strangely. I'm going to have to be more careful.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:26:22 AM PDT
by
seowulf
To: seowulf
Deputies carry both a Taser and a gun on their utility belts. The Taser used is similar in shape to the 40-caliber compact model gun the deputy used, Wilson said. This guy has demonstrated total inability to be around firearms. Bye Bye.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:39:17 AM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Nanny Stater's are Ameba's.)
To: seowulf
Substitute citizen for the officer and the "mistake" might become attempted murder.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:42:48 AM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: seowulf
Deputies and rescue personnel attempted to coax the man from the tree for almost two hours before he was shot. During that time, the man was becoming increasingly hostile toward rescue personnel and deputies trying to get him out of the tree, witness David Blakeslee said. How hostile can a man get 15 to 20 feet up in a fig tree? Was he spitting or pissing on the officers below? Throwing down handfuls of leaves? Shaking the branches at them is a fierce and menacing way? Assuming the deputy pulled the correct weapon and tased the guy, wouldn't that make him fall out of the tree? As it turns out, the shot to the leg was probably the better of the two alternatives given the errant arborist could descend on his own.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:42:51 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("So to hell with that twerp at the [WaPo]. I've got no time for him on a day like this." Mark Steyn)
To: beltfed308
Damn! I meant to fire the Taser!
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:43:05 AM PDT
by
armydawg1
(" America must win this war..." PVT Martin Treptow, KIA, WW1)
To: seowulf
In this case it seems like the shot in the leg was safer than a taser.
Instead of falling out of the tree he climbed down.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:43:20 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: bigfootbob
meant to fire a Taser, not the gun I hate it when that happens!
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:44:43 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: armydawg1
BTW, what would happen if you taser a guy who is up a tree? Does the fall hurt him more than the bullet in the leg? Great choices.....lol. Climb that tree and you can choose between a bullet and taser. We dont put up with tree climbing around these parts!!!
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:44:49 AM PDT
by
armydawg1
(" America must win this war..." PVT Martin Treptow, KIA, WW1)
To: Drango
Of course there is a chance with this type of "mistake" the officer could get himself or others killed by drawing the wrong weapon.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:47:08 AM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Nanny Stater's are Ameba's.)
To: seowulf
Seems to me that the cops are getting just a little too free with the use of tasers these days. I guess, since they're non-lethal, they feel like they can just zap anyone who doesn't immediately ask "how high?" when told to jump.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:49:05 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: NonValueAdded
As it turns out, the shot to the leg was probably the better of the two alternatives given the errant arborist could descend on his own.
You're probably right. He most likely would have broken his neck if he'd been tasered out of the tree. On the other hand, the deputy might have been aiming for his chest. A shot through the lungs can ruin your day.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:49:21 AM PDT
by
seowulf
To: armydawg1
This is one for the Mythbusters.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:50:40 AM PDT
by
managusta
(corruptissima republica plurimae leges)
To: armydawg1
I wonder if they ever heard of pepper spray? Seems like it'd be worth a try on a strange man in a tree.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:51:32 AM PDT
by
seowulf
To: seowulf
Yo Cody! Hold mah taser and watch this!
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:53:44 AM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
In this case it seems like the shot in the leg was safer than a taser. Instead of falling out of the tree he climbed down. That's my take on it.
To: seowulf
I didn't it was against the law to climb a tree and act strangely. It's not if the tree is in your own yard.
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:59:43 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: seowulf
Ah, we are led to believe that the victim's only transgression was that he climbed up the fig tree and acted strangely. It was only at the end of the article, like a trivial afterthought, that we learn this eccentric tree-lover "charged the deputies with a machete". Like "Motorist" Rodney King, this gentle sort will go down in journalism annals as "Climber".
To: Dionysius
It was only at the end of the article, like a trivial afterthought, that we learn this eccentric tree-lover "charged the deputies with a mache Ummm, That was a seperate unrealted incident fRiend.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:09:30 AM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Nanny Stater's are Ameba's.)
To: Dionysius
You might want to go back and reread that last paragraph.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:09:37 AM PDT
by
grjr21
To: Dionysius
The climber and the machete-wielder are two different guys, I think.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:11:44 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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