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> On May 13, 6:02 am, Buck Mulligan <bkmulli...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In talk.politics.guns "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
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> > <xeton2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/05/08/bc-kamloop...
> > >taser.html
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> > >RCMP subdue hospitalized man, 82, with Taser
> > >Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2008 | 1:33 AM ET
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> > >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.
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> > >Frank Lasser, 82, appeared fragile Thursday when he showed the Taser
marks
> > >on his body and talked about the ordeal he went through Saturday.
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> > >"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.
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> > 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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> oh hell - these crazy cops could have just subdued the guy with their
> strength. This is insane.
Subdue him? He was a 82 year old man who just had heart surgery LYING
IN HIS BED ON OXYGEN?? What kind of freak are you to think he needs to
be subdued??!??!?
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