Posted on 05/08/2010 10:34:39 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) A 36-year-old man attending the second round of The Players Championship was subdued by a Taser on Friday.
Travis Parmelee, of Jacksonville, was charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest without violence, said St. Johns County Sheriffs Office Capt. Dave Messenger.
Messenger said course marshals notified officers that Parmelee was yelling at players and being belligerent near the 11th hole. Officers responded and attempted to calm Parmelee down, but they said he became more combative.
They tried to take Parmelee into custody, but he resisted and was Tasered once.
He was at the point where it was time for law enforcement to step in, Messenger said. Our goal is to escort people off the property, but it was clear he wasnt going to go with us.
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Taser has paid for studies that show an 80% reduction in injuries on the job job for cops and suspects.
Note the key words there - "Taser has paid for studies..."
That's not exactly an unbiased source, considering that they are also in the business of convincing the government to expend billions of our tax dollars to purchase their product. I'd say they're about as credible as those tobacco company "studies" back in the 1970's that tried to deny the link between cigarettes and cancer, but they're actually far more insidious because the tobacco companies at least weren't trying to push their product on the taxpayers.
I'll also add that Taser International has a deservedly poor reputation when it comes to the activities it funds around its products. They basically consist of (1) campaign contributions to politicians who whore themselves support government contracts with Taser, (2) equally suspect "studies" that try to "disprove" the fact that Tasers can occasionally cause death in people with certain heart conditions and other medical disorders, and (3) lawsuits against coroners offices that put Taser as the cause on a victim's death certificate.
Think about that one for a second. A company that goes around suing hundreds of trained and credentialed medical experts all across the nation for independently making sound and scientific determinations that its product killed somebody.
The word evil does not even begin to describe that kind of dishonest and unethical bullying. And that alone is cause for questioning the credibility of practically anything else Taser claims about its products.
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It only takes a single needle prick to freak you out, happened to me and ever since I haven't looked at the same way.
I think we're getting to the core of the matter here. An exceptionally rare event happened to you, and now you are extrapolating that experience onto the whole despite no statistical evidence that such a broad application is warranted.
I understand and sympathize with your contention that it was probably a very emotional and perception-changing experience for you. But the one guy in a million who gets struck by lightening and survives also says the same thing, and also probably takes extra caution whenever he sees bad weather on the horizon. That doesn't mean we should all hunker down in a storm cellar every time there's a drop of rain though.
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