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Originally Posted by FLAMESRULE
Dont do the crime if you cant do the time (in this case permanently). It was on the news last night saying he was swinging a metal stair (just the treaded part) at people and cars. Apparently he lost his job and his girlfriend within 2 weeks and was coping by doing drugs and drinking.
Call me cold hearted, but boo freaking hoo. Cops have a tough, tough, job and the last thing they need is getting a stair to the forehead. Unless you want to start getting shot, which last I checked has a higher death rate, Tasers are really the only current non-lethal method to subdue some nut job. Did he deserve to die, no clearly not. Did some of his decisions lead to his death, absolutely.
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I think you're missing the main point....tasing is supposed to be non-lethal. Clearly its not. So to use it as a non-lethal form of dealing with someone is clearly a flawed strategy. It has nothing to do with how many cops died or what this guy was doing before it happened. Everyone knows a cops job is tough.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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