Buck Mulligan wrote:
> In talk.politics.guns "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
> <xeton2001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/05/08/bc-kamloops-man-
>> taser.html
>>
>> 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.
You NEVER risk any kind of sparks around oxygen equipment. A taser
could damn well set off sparks, should one of the prods hit metal
equipment. And the prods are propelled by an explosive charge. Did you
think the cops throw the taser darts at the target?
You'd be surprised how often hospitals have operating room fires - and
how often home care patients on oxygen who just won't quit smoking have
burned down their homes.
Stupid bastard cops could have killed the patient and burned down the
entire wing of the hospital. But they just wanted to play with their
toy, rather than act like real men.
As to using a taser on a delirious 82 year-old, all three cops should be
charged with assault with a deadly weapon, fired, and jailed. And Mr.
Lasser needs to sue the hospital for a failure of care.
--
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana, 1863 - 1952
Cheers,
Bama Brian
Libertarian
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