In talk.politics.guns "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
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> wrote:
>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/05/08/bc-kamloops-man-
>taser.html
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>RCMP subdue hospitalized man, 82, with Taser
>Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2008 | 1:33 AM ET
>
>An elderly man in Kamloops, B.C., was zapped three times on the torso by
a
>police stun gun while lying on his hospital bed, CBC News has learned.
>
>Frank Lasser, 82, appeared fragile Thursday when he showed the Taser
marks
>on his body and talked about the ordeal he went through Saturday.
>
>"They [police] should have known I had bypass surgery," Lasser told CBC
>News.
>
>Lasser has had heart surgery and needs to carry an apparatus to supply
>oxygen at all times. He was in the Royal Inland Hospital Saturday due to
>pneumonia but has since been released.
I don't think tasers make sparks so they are safe to use around oxygen
equipment. A gun DEFINITELY makes sparks and therefore would be
unsafe.
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