Fan Tasered. What do you think?

[Sabine Gallais]

I think it's a wee bit disingenuous to make assumptions that cops are running around tasering folks for fun or without any merit whatsoever. It's hard for me to side with folks deliberately causing trouble. Heck, I walk around all day without getting tasered. I've even been to professional sporting events without finding trouble. Imagine?

[NJFemmie]

Originally Posted by Sabine Gallais

I think it's a wee bit disingenuous to make assumptions that cops are running around tasering folks for fun or without any merit whatsoever. It's hard for me to side with folks deliberately causing trouble. Heck, I walk around all day without getting tasered. I've even been to professional sporting events without finding trouble. Imagine?

Agreed.

Hell - It's been at least .. three months since I've been last tasered for no reason. It doesn't happen ALL the time.

Sidenote:
When you're paying $90 a ticket for not even a half way decent seat, I personally don't want some asshat running around breaking the momentum of the game. I am not there to see some drunken idiot running around - I'm there to see a game.

And a good point was made - how do you know it's not some whackadoo trying to take out one of the players?

If you're stupid enough to take your chances by running out on a field - expect that you will be removed one way or another.

[Kobi]

Tuff crowd here I see. I dont believe in using any kind of weapons unless abolutely necessary.

Law enforcement and security folks used to be well schooled in how to diffuse potentially nasty situations. But, then again, those were the days when people respected the police/security.

I can understand police/security resorting to devices to protect themselves in hostile situations tho. People are nuts these days.

These tasers might come in handy at the beach this summer tho. Where do you buy them?

[betenoire]

Wait, he was an OFF DUTY cop? What the fuck was he doing just carrying his taser around with him? Did he have his gun and his billy club, too?

I don't know much about cops (because I don't trust them, so I like to pretend they don't exist), so I don't know if they are allowed/encouraged to carry that shit around them when they are off the clock - but it strikes me as inappropriate. Especially to a freaking sporting event.

[Diva]

There can be such a fine line in considering where someone's "last resort" is.....no?

So I voted no.

For Pete's sake....where are they gonna run TO? They're sorta stuck, aren't they, when they get out onto that field.

I think ~ MY opinion ~ some are just a little bit Taser~Crazy, if You ask me.

[Diva]

Originally Posted by betenoire

Wait, he was an OFF DUTY cop? What the fuck was he doing just carrying his taser around with him? Did he have his gun and his billy club, too?

I don't know much about cops (because I don't trust them, so I like to pretend they don't exist), so I don't know if they are allowed/encouraged to carry that shit around them when they are off the clock - but it strikes me as inappropriate. Especially to a freaking sporting event.

Sometimes, off~duty cops work a gig like that for extra buckage.

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by SassyLeo

In general, I do not support overzealous Police Officers tasering or shooting anyone, but this just happened in Portland yesterday...

http://www.kptv.com/video/23460539/

I'd rather he be tasered than shot...

That man is lucky to be alive. If he'd been black, he would've been dead. The year I moved here there were *three* shootings, by cops, of motorists in the course of routine traffic stops and all three of the folks shot were black.

That said, I think that it really depends upon the situation. Someone running out onto a sports field does not actually rise to the occasion in my book. There are other ways to get the person to desist. Now, if the situation is such that another life is on the line, then whatever force the police have at their disposal should be used. So if the kid ran onto the field with a knife and all that happens is that he gets hit with a taser then he should consider himself lucky.

I think that armed officers (whether security guards or police) can be a little taser happy but I'm glad that they have a (generally) non-lethal way of stopping someone. And yes, I know that people do die from tasers however, given that the *next* level of escalation is a firearm, I'd rather unarmed but potentially violent perps be tased than be shot.

[NJFemmie]

Originally Posted by betenoire

Wait, he was an OFF DUTY cop? What the fuck was he doing just carrying his taser around with him? Did he have his gun and his billy club, too?

I don't know much about cops (because I don't trust them, so I like to pretend they don't exist), so I don't know if they are allowed/encouraged to carry that shit around them when they are off the clock - but it strikes me as inappropriate. Especially to a freaking sporting event.

I have a lot of law enforcement in my family.
Off duty cops are allowed to carry weapons, and yes, some do take extra jobs (usually security-type) for some extra buckage.

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by betenoire

Wait, he was an OFF DUTY cop? What the fuck was he doing just carrying his taser around with him? Did he have his gun and his billy club, too?

I don't know much about cops (because I don't trust them, so I like to pretend they don't exist), so I don't know if they are allowed/encouraged to carry that shit around them when they are off the clock - but it strikes me as inappropriate. Especially to a freaking sporting event.

I know that in California and Oregon off-duty police are allowed to carry their weapons.

Cheers
Aj

[Andrew, Jr.]

In Maryland, the off duty cops carry their weapons with them as well.

[Corkey]

Frankly it is a misuse of use of force. The kid may have run around for a bit, but the cop should not have used the taser. Wait him out or run after him and tackle him, or get some back up and catch him, but taser, nope uncalled for.

[Kobi]

Maybe if we put a taser device in both the batters box and pitchers mound, 4 hour baseball games will be a thing of the past. Just a thought.

[The_Lady_Snow]

Originally Posted by June

I don't get it. Did it interrupt the Home Run?

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"

Vana'she picture this

*We* are all at game night right?

and some wacko runs through the

Scrabble board

KNOCKING everything over!!

I would tase them for you <3

[Apocalipstic]

No tasing of minors. It's a damn ball game, not Congressional hearings.

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by apocalipstic

No tasing of minors. It's a damn ball game, not Congressional hearings.

LOL right, no tasering of kids until we can taser congress.

[Queerasfck]

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

Vana'she picture this

*We* are all at game night right?

and some wacko runs through the

Scrabble board

KNOCKING everything over!!

I would tase them for you <3

Now that's love!

[weatherboi]

*jealous*
personally if i were a crazy ass baseball fan like that i would hope to be taken down by the taser...SCORE!!!



*sometimes i get the feeling people wanna taser me on a plane, but that is a whole nother story*

[SuperFemme]

Double standard much?

They never tazed Morgana the Kissing Bandit now did they?

[The_Lady_Snow]

Originally Posted by weatherboi

*jealous*
personally if i were a crazy ass baseball fan like that i would hope to be taken down by the taser...SCORE!!!



*sometimes i get the feeling people wanna taser me on a plane, but that is a whole nother story*

See why I *must* own a taser???

Originally Posted by June

Well. Sure. Scrabble is some serious business. We shall make an exception in this case. Especially if I was ahead.

In the main, I think people get a little too worked up about sports and (NASCAR) non-sports. They get all tanked up on liquor, smack and nitrates and the next thing you know, they think they are Wilt Chamberlain or Babe Ruth or whatever and they are harshing (evidently) everyone elses mellow.

I feel you are saying that ALLLLLLLLLLLLL sports fans partake in such deeds.. Isn't that stereotyping

When I transform into a sports figure in my haze of adrenalin and cheers. I channel Jack Lambert

[BullDog]

There better not be any disruptions of A2A at game night.

Off duty cops taking pot shots from the stands? No thanks. Make the idiots pay with stiff fines and/or tons of hours of community service or something- give them lasting pain instead of a temporary zap.

Yeah the trigger happy cops in Portland (almost always aimed at black people) make tasers look tame.