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watt price tully 
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A woman at that. Every 95 year old I have seen has been frail as hell, that just disgusting
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The appalling thing about police tasers is that theyâre so often employed when a firearm wouldnât be, despite having been promoted as a non-lethal alternative to guns. There need to be far stricter regulations on their use.
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| David wrote: | | The appalling thing about police tasers is that theyâre so often employed when a firearm wouldnât be, despite having been promoted as a non-lethal alternative to guns. There need to be far stricter regulations on their use. |
So youâd rather she was shot?
Tasers are brilliant,
But I canât think of any scenario bar holding a sub machine gun, where using one on a 95 year old woman, or man for that matter, is necessary
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David
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| think positive wrote: | | So youâd rather she was shot? |
This is my point exactly: no police officer is using a gun in that scenario. Yet cops seem to think that having a taser gives them a blank cheque to use it any time they want to subdue somebody. Thatâs not what we were told they would be for.
Anyhow, Iâm pretty sure this womanâs family donât think tasers are brilliant right now.
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Did you read my last sentence?
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stui magpie 
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The whole thing needs investigating. The fact that staff felt the need to call police to disarm a 95 year old women with a knife is the first worry, that Police then felt the need to Taser her is the second. OK, no one wants to get stabbed in the line of work but how threatening can a 95 year old be?
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Exactly!
Gees they could have just waited it out til nap time!
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stui magpie
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It all happened at like 4am. Night staff on.
Does anyone know, do Cops still carry those clubs? Nighsticks, trunchons, whatever they were called?
If they do, surely ig you have a fragile but demented 95 year old coming at you with a steak knife, refusing to listen to pleas to put it down, a better option than using a taser would be to smack her on the hand/wrist with the stick. Yeah you'd probably smash her hand but that's better than you being stabbed or her getting tasered, isn't it?
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| stui magpie wrote: | It all happened at like 4am. Night staff on.
Does anyone know, do Cops still carry those clubs? Nighsticks, trunchons, whatever they were called?
If they do, surely ig you have a fragile but demented 95 year old coming at you with a steak knife, refusing to listen to pleas to put it down, a better option than using a taser would be to smack her on the hand/wrist with the stick. Yeah you'd probably smash her hand but that's better than you being stabbed or her getting tasered, isn't it? |
I laughed watching the news
âShe was coming at the police slowly on her walking frameâ
You canât make this shirt up, itâs out of one of those spoof cop movies
That poor woman
The cops should be honest and sa6 we Ł$%$ed up
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watt price tully
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Throw a blanket over her; end of story.
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stui magpie
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and she falls over, hits her head on the ground and ends up exactly where she is now, just via a different means.
The cops have the bodycam footage, someone will (hopefully) work out what the options were, other than getting stabbed.
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| stui magpie wrote: | ^
and she falls over, hits her head on the ground and ends up exactly where she is now, just via a different means.
The cops have the bodycam footage, someone will (hopefully) work out what the options were, other than getting stabbed. |
Sheâs 95, blanket disarms people quickly. Police around no issue. Done it myself in ED on 2 occasions b4 security could be called and gives you time to easily subdue. Just move things around her quite easily before covering her with the blanket.
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lazzadesilva 
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I would have offered a swap for the knife with a glass of brandy. She would have loved to have the brandy, the staff would have got the knife and as a bonus, she would have gone back and slept really well after the ânight capâ. Problem solved.
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eddiesmith 
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| Tasers were brought in for this exact scenario given everyone got outraged when the cops shot dead a kid who charged them with a knife. |
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