Geezus Not again -Taser used on 80-year-old woman in Mississauga

[karrie]

Tasers have a place and a purpose. When properly used. Labeling them as torture weapons is BS.
Yes people die from Tasers, but a hell of a lot less than from gunshots.

Torture is meant to not kill. While it's a dramatic way to put it, the point of a taser is to cause such intense pain as to disable someone and make them compliant. I don't think it's an unsuitable word, and, given the alternative of brief torture or death, I think we'd all take the taser option, regardless of what we call it.

But, if you label it appropriately.... perhaps morons won't hit grandma with it for flimsy reasons.

 

[petros]

Women who break a hip at age 65 years or older face double the risk of dying within the coming year compared with those without a hip fracture, even if they have an otherwise excellent bill of health, according to an analysis of osteoporotic fractures published online September 26 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/750611

They can just be standing or doing light tasks and break bones without warning.

It has me thinking that not drinking calcium rich, irony, mineral rich hard water from wells as humans had been doing for millennia may explain the increase in rates of OA, anemia and other afflictions.

 

[spaminator]

Geezus Not again -Taser used on 80-year-old woman in Mississauga

with all these horrible tasering incidents, perhaps we should have a new board, 'don't tase me bro.'

 

[hunboldt]

Unbelievable...I don't usually jump to this conclusion ( I like to give the authorities the benefit of the doubt but I honestly think they get the short end of the stick a lot of times) but someone is going to have to come up with a very, very convincing reason why an 80 year old woman needed to be put down that way. Honestly, what the **** are they thinking?

Sure/ Live fire practise on 'civilian conscripts'. Gotta train....practise makes perfect....
Let me know when youwant me to stop the aphorisms...

 

[SLM]

Tasers have a place and a purpose. When properly used. Labeling them as torture weapons is BS.
Yes people die from Tasers, but a hell of a lot less than from gunshots.
Pick you poison.

They do have a proper place I think, but it's not to be used as they (seemingly) have been. Perhaps it is a training issue, seems to me that there doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency in use from one force to another.

Torture is meant to not kill. While it's a dramatic way to put it, the point of a taser is to cause such intense pain as to disable someone and make them compliant. I don't think it's an unsuitable word, and, given the alternative of brief torture or death, I think we'd all take the taser option, regardless of what we call it.

I'd take my chances with a taser over a bullet.

Sure/ Live fire practise on 'civilian conscripts'. Gotta train....practise makes perfect....
Let me know when youwant me to stop the aphorisms...

Aphorize away....just don't take down any little old ladies, they deserve a bit better.

 

[Cliffy]

Hey! Cut the dude some slack, man. How he supposed to know the old lady's warranty on her hardware was up? She break that easy, she past her due date.

 

[Nuggler]

They can just be standing or doing light tasks and break bones without warning.

It has me thinking that not drinking calcium rich, irony, mineral rich hard water from wells as humans had been doing for millennia may explain the increase in rates of OA, anemia and other afflictions.

Everyone in our township should be ok. Way lots of all that good stuff. Not too much iron though, and that's good.

They do have a proper place I think, but it's not to be used as they (seemingly) have been. Perhaps it is a training issue, seems to me that there doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency in use from one force to another.



I'd take my chances with a taser over a bullet. .

I hope never to cause enough waves for the masters that they have to do either to me. Chickenshlt that I is.:roll:

Although, with the storm trooper cop mentality, I dunno what the future holds.

 

[karrie]

They can just be standing or doing light tasks and break bones without warning.

It has me thinking that not drinking calcium rich, irony, mineral rich hard water from wells as humans had been doing for millennia may explain the increase in rates of OA, anemia and other afflictions.

I suspect that living past 65, as humans weren't often doing during those millennia, has WAY more to do with it.

 

[captain morgan]

Waiting for the spin on this. She had a cane........................ The Officer took it as a stapler.

She came at the cops wielding a fresh baked apple pie and mittens that she knitted earlier.... Might have even said something like brewing a pot of nice herbal tea.

... Some cops HATE tea; especially chamomile.

They were entirely justified

 

[#juan]

For a good number of eighty year olds, a broken hip is a life threatening injury. These three peckerheads should be dismissed right now. There can be no excuse to taser an eighty year old.

 

[Zipperfish]

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Waiting for the spin on this. She had a cane........................ The Officer took it as a stapler.

She had a kitchen knife, apparently.

Updated: SIU called in after cops taser 80-year-old woman in Streetsville

And she was tasered twice. And it was Peel Regional officers, not Toronto cops.

I'm loathe to render judgment in these cases until the facts come out, myself. I just have a general impression that there are too many cops, and people are are calling 9-1-1 for things that could be dealt with locally.

 

[Goober]

She had a kitchen knife, apparently.

Updated: SIU called in after cops taser 80-year-old woman in Streetsville

And she was tasered twice. And it was Peel Regional officers, not Toronto cops.

I'm loathe to render judgment in these cases until the facts come out, myself. I just have a general impression that there are too many cops, and people are are calling 9-1-1 for things that could be dealt with locally.

3 Officers and not a clue between them.

 

[SLM]

Ok, so this is what the daughter is saying.

Tasered senior's daughter consulting a lawyer - Canada - Canoe.ca

 

[Goober]

Ok, so this is what the daughter is saying.

Tasered senior's daughter consulting a lawyer - Canada - Canoe.ca[/QUOTE]

Oh I am sure this will be settled out of court.
Those 3 Officers must have been from the Dwarf Unit.