Posted on 11/16/2006 8:23:50 PM PST by Arec Barrwin
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, was tasered after he refused to provide ID and would not leave. He starts screaming
"DON"T TOUCH ME! Don't touch-zzzzzzzzzzzt!" "Here's your Patriot Act! Here's your-zzzzzzzzzzt!"
Lesson #1: When the police ask you to do something, do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7zlJx9u2E
How old are you? And what country do you think you live in? The People's Republic of America?
A lot of people posting in this thread don't seem to realize that tasers have a paralyzing effect on the person who is on the receiving end. It's stupid to expect someone who has been tasered multiple times to get up off the ground.
The arrestee was being a major douche but the officers handled the situation poorly at best.
I always get in front of the "FIRE THE COACH" guy. We are up 40 points on a Div 1-AA team and this clown is busting on the coach because we aren't passing enough. Luckily he ran out of liquor and left.
Seeing someone refuse a reasonable request from a Policeman get tasered multiple times *is* funny, to me.
It's a matter of a petulant child getting what they deserve.
Like when my 9 year old son says, "You can't make me eat that broccoli!"
And then I say, "Ok, no computer for a week."
His reaction always makes me laugh!
Do you have children? Maybe you'd have to have kids to find this funny?
Nope never had kids. I still do not understand how shocking someone into screamimg fits is funny.
Not my cup of tea I guess.
Do most parents like to laugh at handing out punishment to their children?
Wouldn't you rather take pleasure in NOT having to do so?
I'm 42.
And I think the policeman's request was reasonable.
And I believe refusing a reasonable request from a policeman means you deserve to be made to comply.
The cops instructed him to get up and go with them. He refused. The cops could either bodily remove him by force, which would have been far more dangerous, considering there were stairs involved.
Zapping the kid was a reasonable, measured response.
And dammed funny.
"Don't touch me!"
ZZZZZZZZZZ.
"I said don't touch me!"
ZZZZZZZZZZ.
The kid seems to have trouble learning from his mistakes! Did you ever see the Simpsons episode about Bart learning slower than the hampster?
It's an 'irony' thing.
The kid's basically saying, "You can't move me".
Zzzzzzztttt!
Yes, they can.
Funny.
Most parents, in my experience, instead get all huffy about their kids disobeying, and take it personally. I don't -- I believe it is natural for an intelligent, willful human child to challenge authority. And I think it's funny when they learn a lesson the hard way. As long as they don't get seriously injured, which this guy was not.
Wouldn't you rather take pleasure in NOT having to do so?
Boy, you must not have kids.
This is how you make sure you don't have to. By punishing them.
All kids need to be disciplined from time to time. When I have to, I *try* to do it with love and humor.
Maybe it is because I got the crap beat out of me as a kid on a regular basis. - No humor involved.
Exactly, He refused a reasonable request from the police.
Some folks just have no sense of humor. Tazing the guy doesn't seriously harm him.
I just heard some comedian on my XM comedy chanel the other day --
"My mother was nurturing. 'Don't touch that hot stove, you'll burn yourself'. My father was more of a practical teacher. 'Don't touch that stove', he'd say. 'Why not, Daddy?' 'Go ahead and touch it, and find out,' he'd say."
That's just funny.
I am truly sorry to hear that.
But
This guy was no victim.
In a previous story, Dennis The Peasant here (see Monty Python and the Holy Grail) was actually told to leave and there was time that elapsed before the police were brought in.
Well before he was tasered, he was ignoring simple instructions.
Yes, excellent example!
"Help, help, I'm being oppressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!"
I completely agree. The student seems to have been an eejit, but the police response was irresponsible and disproportionate.
Tasering is very painful in all cases. In at least some cases (I don't know the exact number, but it's safe to assume more than a dozen nationwide), death has resulted.
The officers used a taser to compel a subject to rise, a ludicrous project completely contrary to the proper use of the device. As any properly trained police officer knows, a taser is used to subdue a subject, not to make him mobile. Most if not all tasered subjects are not able to move for at least several minutes after they've been tasered. The whole point of using the weapon is to immobilize a subject so he can be handcuffed.
These keystone cops tasered a handcuffed subject to make him "get up." They're idiots, and they're about to be sued up the ying yang.
As I always told the perps....."Talk to the Judge".
As I watched the video I was waiting for the kid in the crowd to yell "Stop, I am prelaw, I want your badge number!"
You usually end up having to take them too....lol
Painful, yes. Incapacitating, no, not usually to a healthy young male.
The kid brought it on himself. He was no victim. He could have stopped the tazering at any time, simply by complying with a reasonable request from a uniformed officer of the law.
I'm sure there will be a lawsuit, these days you can sue for anything.
But the kid is no victim. And the FReepers who think he is, in my opinion, have misunderstood the situation completely.
I find it funny when a willful, stubborn child gets zapped over and over again simply because they're trying to be rebellious for no reason.
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