Baseball fan gets Tasered for running onto field during Philadelphia Phillies game

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by IliketoPuck

I think the police in Philly should hit the gym. That is embarassing.

"My god this kid is fast, and I'm getting lit up out here. I gotta taze this kid and then get my ass on a treadmill."

What does that have to do with anything. Why chase him, grab him take the risk of hurting him with a tackle, or getting injured yourself.

In fact they should increase the tazer's range and put a sniper scope on it.

[Locke]

Really? Come on.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

What does that have to do with anything. Why chase him, grab him take the risk of hurting him with a tackle, or getting injured yourself.

I dunno, maybe it's just me but I expect a Cop to be physically capable of kicking your ass without zapping you with 80,000 volts.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by zamler

I dunno, maybe it's just me but I expect a Cop to be physically capable of kicking your ass without zapping you with 80,000 volts.

Maybe he is if he can get his hands on you?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by zamler

I dunno, maybe it's just me but I expect a Cop to be physically capable of kicking your ass without zapping you with 80,000 volts.

In this day and age where any contact results in a review by infernal affairs and the need to hire a lawyer because the person cries personal injury or police brutality.

So the cop catches this kid and squashes him, maybe breaks a bone or two in the morons body, and every personal injury lawyer out there is approaching this kid to sue.

Plus who knows what this kids intentions are, is he out for a good time, is he going to go stabby or gunny on someone. Put him down in the fastest way possible.

[Huntingwhale]

Originally Posted by zamler

I dunno, maybe it's just me but I expect a Cop to be physically capable of kicking your ass without zapping you with 80,000 volts.

Maybe he didn't want to risk getting touching the other guys dong. That would be my #1 concern.

[puckluck]

Originally Posted by zamler

I dunno, maybe it's just me but I expect a Cop to be physically capable of kicking your ass without zapping you with 80,000 volts.

What makes a cop so strong? do they get superpowers when they get their badge?

[zamler]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

In this day and age where any contact results in a review by infernal affairs and the need to hire a lawyer because the person cries personal injury or police brutality.

I get your point, but people have died from tasers, that sounds like a lawyers wet dream. Not only that, taser someone and they fall onto a hard surface they can and have sustained very serious injuries. The thing is when you get zapped, you drop and have absolutely no control, which is very dangerous. It is worse than passing out because you also tense up and become stiff.

I'm against tasers I think they are the making wimps out of law enforcement.

[return to the red]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

In this day and age where any contact results in a review by infernal affairs and the need to hire a lawyer because the person cries personal injury or police brutality.

So the cop catches this kid and squashes him, maybe breaks a bone or two in the morons body, and every personal injury lawyer out there is approaching this kid to sue.

Plus who knows what this kids intentions are, is he out for a good time, is he going to go stabby or gunny on someone. Put him down in the fastest way possible.

Using a Taser on someone can't be concidered Police brutality? Not trying to pick a fight or anything but I'm just saying why should the police be afraid of physically taking down a guy and resort to taser use? Next thing you know everyone is going to be tasered.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by zamler

I get your point, but people have died from tasers, that sounds like a lawyers wet dream. Not only that, taser someone and they fall onto a hard surface they can and have sustained very serious injuries. The thing is when you get zapped, you drop and have absolutely no control, which is very dangerous. It is worse than passing out because you also tense up and become stiff.

I'm against tasers I think they are the making wimps out of law enforcement.

Nothin' but a bunch of....

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by return to the red

Using a Taser on someone can't be concidered Police brutality? Not trying to pick a fight or anything but I'm just saying why should the police be afraid of physically taking down a guy and resort to taser use? Next thing you know everyone is going to be tasered.

How can it in this case. Its not like they kept shooting him when he's down. Or 10 cops plugged him.

Police shouldn't be afraid of taking someone down, however I keep going back to A) you splatter someone and get sued. B) You move into the dangerous weapon area, what if the guys carrying a knife, or a slap jack.

[mikey_the_redneck]

Tasers have turned cops into a bunch of pathetic bullies....

You can look up countless videos of cops abusing tasers and zapping people for very negligible reasons...and sometimes killing them.

[CaptainCrunch]

Way to stereotype.

What do you do for a living, I'm sure there's a percentage of bags in your chosen field.

[return to the red]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

How can it in this case. Its not like they kept shooting him when he's down. Or 10 cops plugged him.

Police shouldn't be afraid of taking someone down, however I keep going back to A) you splatter someone and get sued. B) You move into the dangerous weapon area, what if the guys carrying a knife, or a slap jack.

we must be misinterpreting what each other is saying because in response to a) can you not get sued using a taser?

[troutman]

[troutman]

[CaptainCrunch]

Oh sure, you can get sued over using a taser, and there's a possibility that you can die from a taser, just like you can die from a bad tackle.

But when you combine the two factors together including officer protection, I still feel that the tazer is a better option then the tackling

[Oil Stain]

Am I the only one that views people running onto the field as part of the fun of attending a live sporting event?

[Jordan!]

Hilarious.

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by mjm

since it's mostly rider fans, they should throw some sort of post-secondary text book on the field when this happens. They wouldn't know what to do than and their head would explode.

boom