Small comfort, at least she didn't have a pet dog with her.
Posted on 06/15/2012 4:48:18 PM PDT by null and void
Police in Dorchester County, S.C., used a Taser on a nude 80-year-old woman after she allegedly attempted to attack police with her walking stick. WCSC reports that when police answered a complaint of someone making loud noises in the area, they were met by an elderly woman wearing no clothes on her porch, reportedly hitting the steps of her porch with her cane.
According to police, the woman, who spoke “confusingly,” began to swing her cane at the officers when police tried to take it away from the nude woman. As police continued to talk the woman out of swinging her cane at them, another officer used his Taser on the woman’s back. The woman was immediately transported to a nearby medical facility for treatment.
When police investigated the area, they discovered that the woman, a former tenant, had broken three windows at the property after the owner attempted to give the deposit back to the woman.
WCSC reports that no charges were filed against the woman despite the $250 worth of property damage.
Oh... hadn’t thought of that. ;^)
And that is as it should be. I have no problem with reasoned force if someone goes out of their way to ask for it.
If the woman had a knife, I might even have agreed that the Taser might have been the best idea here. A cane? Nah!
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Almost sounds that way (the cops) doesn’t it.
I think that 18 to 45 might be expanded in some circumstances, but it strikes me that it’s use might prove fatal in an older person. 80? Come on... I’d sure hate to kill an old lady because she had a cane and I didn’t want her to have it.
Thanks for your comments.
I don't think so.
And I'm not a cop, either.
And you, as well.
LOL!
But I love it for kids especially, because you can't do anything until somebody comes at you. The whole point is to deflect, rotate, transfer their energy into dumping them on the ground or into a joint lock. And there's a lot of tradition including respect for the teacher & other students.
(When my husband would say, "Here! Grab my arm!" all our friends would back away slowly, shaking their heads.)
She was not “nude.” Nude is someone wearing no clothes that is alluring and exciting.
Nekkid means they’re wearing no clothes and “up to no good.” Therefore, she was most likely “nekkid.”
driftdiver...”imbecile” — to whom are you referring?
The cop who tasered an 80 yr old woman. thought that was pretty self evident.
You have to train someone NOT to taser an 80 yr old woman who has a cane???????
That sounds like just the right program. Very good.
No, that wasn’t the point. The point is, these men need to be trained to take an object like the cane away without using a higher level of inappropriate force.
Evidently, they didn’t know what else to do. That’s the cryin’ shame.
It’s kind of hard to grab the cane when you are covering your eyes.
LOL
But did they shoot her dog?
She didn’t have a dog, so they had to Taser her...
Small comfort, at least she didn't have a pet dog with her.
**But there is no reasoning to someone hopped up on Geritiol and Fixadent**
Now that right there is funny!
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