Fan Tasered. What do you think?

[adorable]

I am all for tasering or the use of baseball bats. If you are dumb enough to run out onto a field in the middle of a game - you deserve it. If you are dumb enough to run from the police who are telling you to stop - you deserve it. If you are dumb enough not to listen to someone that gets paid (poorly) to carry a gun -you deserve it.

As for him being 17 - as the mother of a 17 year old girl, I think all 17 year olds should be tasered on their 17th birthday so they know what it feels like. That way when they go to a party with all their stupid friends and the police show up, they don't think running their mouth is such a great idea. I would like to buy a taser actually, it would save me from losing my voice like I do currently. That and I bet her room would be immaculate.

In Florida they are fond of tasering elementary kids. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11...r_kids_zapped/

I do draw the line there. Keep tasers out of elementary school. But, high school - 16 and up - go for it.

[apretty]

Originally Posted by adorable

Keep tasers out of elementary school. But, high school - 16 and up - go for it.

my parents didn't use a taser *once* and my room was immaculate and my curfew was 10pm until i was 18--i was late one time.

i can't speak to mouthing-off to cops because that was/is beyond inconceivable, my parents made it perfectly clear that if i ever was arrested/picked up by the cops that i should under no circumstance waste a phone call on calling them because my dad would *NEVER* bail me out of JH/jail.

so, it's probably not the taser (or bat)--though my dad was and probably still is an excellent shot. (target practice, mainly.)

[SuperFemme]

Yeah. I don't think making light of using excessive force on minors is funny.
Coming from a person that survived a mother who used it regularly.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Dean Thoreau

not enough choices....................
i vote that people who disrupt an event in which there was an admission charge....be removed placed in a prison cell and left there till the end of the event, afterwhich they be hung so as never to do it again.

perhaps it will take 3 or 4 hangings but eventually people will learn that disrupting an event is not "cute, funny, or a way to get your 15 minutes of fame" this goes for little kids who decide to start screaming in church as well....hang them and their parents.

Well, the kids are going to be kids. It's up to the parents how to deal with it.

Originally Posted by apretty

my parents didn't use a taser *once* and my room was immaculate and my curfew was 10pm until i was 18--i was late one time.

i can't speak to mouthing-off to cops because that was/is beyond inconceivable, my parents made it perfectly clear that if i ever was arrested/picked up by the cops that i should under no circumstance waste a phone call on calling them because my dad would *NEVER* bail me out of JH/jail.

so, it's probably not the taser (or bat)--though my dad was and probably still is an excellent shot. (target practice, mainly.)

This goes back to the parents and then we'll get into the whole 'who's a good parent' discussion and that will go all to Hell in a pretty lil hand basket. With streamers and glitter, no less.

So, to stop that in its tracks, I too knew better even though I did not have a good parental influence and spent years in the system.

So, the responsibility for the infraction goes firmly on the shoulders of the idiot who committed it, where it belongs.

[Nat]

I am very glad my parent never advocated violently assaulting me for no reason, "just so I knew what it feels like."

Wow.

[Glenn]

"Civil journalism", and more threads such as this, along with videos, are good for folks who were/will be victims of excessive use of force with tasers. Do we have legislation to protect them?

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by popcorninthesofa

"Civil journalism", threads such as this, can also be used to show videos of folks who were victims of excessive use of force with tasers in order to enforce new legislation. Also, I think building higher fences around the playing field may help.

How will it help when the kid had a ticket?

[Apocalipstic]

So we are going to tase and possibly hang children if they interrupt sports.

Yeayyy.

I am proud as pie of us. Sports. Something that is supposed to be recreational and fun. Relaxing even.

My parent did take to assaulting me physically..but did not really give me a reason.

Maybe the Dad should have been tased instead of the kid?

Again, for me it is incomprehensible to get so upset over a ball game that some of us think violence to children is the way to control crowds.

Wow.

I am now clear on why I am not into sports....I thought it was dodge ball, but no...it was fans who think that nothing should get in the way of competition.