heh first thing that came to my mind tooOriginally Posted by Con
yeah why don't we just let them shoot people dead instead
they need to weed out the kinds of idiots who do this shit, don't blame the weapon and don't generalise cops
i'd take getting shot over a fucking taser to my balls and asshole.
At least with guns the fuckers THINK that the consequences of what they're doing could or will kill the person they're shooting.
AND THATS THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE.
Perhaps if they got proper training they'd treat tasers with the same respect they treat their guns?
not going to happen ross because there are alot of sadistic fucking cunts that will abuse this 'harmless' weapon regardless of the training they receive or the education they get.
It's a serious fucking problem that they can torture these people without barely leaving a mark.
and thats exactly what it is, fucking torture, and you cant teach people not to do that, because if they're willing to do it in the first place it's fucking evident they dont deserve the badge in the first fucking place.
But what do we do, we let them off, people jump to there defence, the cunts lie to save each others ass and at the end of the day where left with the same cockheads.
Justify those that die by wearing the badge they're the choosen whites.
they're was a report out ross in the paper not long ago and 75% of all 2nd use of tasers on a suspect, the suspect was in hand cuffs and already subdued.
something like 60% of all use of them where Abuse of power.
and no i'm not pulling these figures out of my ass. this was an independent report, (the numbers may be off a bit because i'm working from memory but it was far to high to be acceptable and these figures i'm posting ARE NOT EXAGERATIONS)
In a report on Tasers tabled in the NSW Parliament in November, the Ombudsman expressed concern about the use of stun gun mode. When Tasers were rolled out to senior officers in 80 commands across NSW, four out of the first five uses were in stun mode.
''This rings alarm bells for me, as we are already seeing a completely different type of use by general-duties officers,'' the Ombudsman said.
Mr Rowlings said stun gun mode tended to be used for compliance because it could only be used close to somebody, ''and normally in those situations the person is restrained in some way''.
oh wait so i was wrong, it's actually 80%
Bruce Barbour told state parliament yesterday that general-duties police, who were issued the stun guns last month, were using Tasers at a higher rate than special operations police, who began using them in 2002.
"It is clear the number of incidents where Tasers will be used in the future will increase significantly," Mr Barbour said.
"There is already evidence of this. Tasers have been used on people on five occasions in the first two weeks of general-duties use. This compares with only 48 incidents over a five-year period" by special unit officers.
Oh wait so giving mark free weapons to a bunch of power tripping egotistical fucks WAS A BAD IDEA?
FUCK SOMEBODY ALERT THE PRESS's
And NO special ops is NOT THE SAME as street police they work in ways under much more intense training as well as regulation.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...006784,00.html
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news...px?storypage=0
http://www.theage.com.au/national/we...e.html?page=-1
"zero tolerance is not something we want in our community" talking with regards to tasers and crime.
I think it's a bit fuckign hypocritical when you take a look at things such as speeding and p Plate laws (as well as alcohol laws) that this person can stand up and say that with a straight face.
But hey when it earns them money i guess we just gotta sit down and take it with a smile.
Here have some more power, some more rights, some more freedoms while ours are slowly wittled away because afterall we know that whats in my best interest is yours.... dont we??
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news...842479883.html
A police officer who fired a Taser stun gun at a 16-year-old girl used excessive force, the Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) has found. The CMC delivered a scathing assessment of how police handled a situation on the South Bank in April last year when the teenager defied a move-on order.
The girl had been waiting for an ambulance to treat her unconscious friend and when she refused to move on, police held her down and used the Taser on her. The CMC found the officer had shown poor discretion in requiring the girl and her companions to move on when they were waiting for an ambulance to treat their friend.
The officer failed to advise the teenagers of the consequences of disobeying a move-on direction, it said.
The officer also used the Taser contrary to Queensland Police Service (QPS) policy because the girl could have been restrained less forcefully and because the police officer admitted he knew she could be a juvenile.
It is police policy not to use Tasers against those under 18. Despite the CMC finding that the police officer had used excessive force, it recommended he only receive "managerial guidance".
Cool puppet review system bro.
even though he knew she was under 18 and they knew it was illegal to taser her for waiting for her unconscious friend to be taken to hospital when the abulance was to arive.
but we can explain this.
The magical taser theory.
sometimes these tasers just have a mind of they're own adn if you play the tape backwards you can see the cops wrestle with the demon spawned possesed taser before freeing her from it and protecting her and her unconscious friend.
managerial guidance inforce~
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574...-29277,00.html
A MELBOURNE teenager will face court after threatening police with a machete.
Officers spotted the 16-year-old, with a large machete stuffed down his trousers, riding a bicycle through the inner Melbourne suburb of Collingwood around 3.45am (AEST) today.
When the officers approached him, he pulled out the machete and held it above his head, police said.
The teenager rode off and again threatened officers with the machete as they chased him through nearby streets.
Police from Fitzroy and Richmond stations assisted Collingwood police in a stand-off with the teenager, using capsicum spray to arrest him.
Police discovered he was also carrying two knives.
He was charged with weapons offences and assaulting police, and was bailed to appear before a Children's Court on July 16.
THEY DIDNT NEED TO USE A TASER??
YOU MEAN THEY USED TO DO IT LIKE THIS BEFORE TASERS EXISTED
WHAT THE FUCK HOW DID THIS HAPPEN I DONT EVEN
Re: Taser Watch Australia - Countdown to Deaths by Less Lethal Weapons
« Reply #61 on: June 12, 2009, 04:54:33 PM »
The more we have these unwarranted shooting stories, the louder the call will be from the "public arena" to have police armed with Tasers in Victoria.
Elijah Holcombe police shooting witness bombshell
By Adam Walters
The Daily Telegraph
June 13, 2009 12:00am
Conflicting claims ... Elijah Holcombe killed in Cinders Lane, Armidale, this month
* Elijah Holcombe "acting casual, not armed"
* Contradicts police claims on shooting
* Family devastated, police no comment
WITNESSES to the fatal police shooting of a young man have contradicted claims the officer had no choice but to shoot him.
Two women have independently sworn they did not see Elijah Holcombe armed with a knife and said he was at least 15m away from officers when he was shot in the chest. In statements obtained by The Daily Telegraph, the women claim Mr Holcombe, who suffered from mental illness, was "calm" when ordered to stop by police in Cinders Lane, Armidale, this month.
"The second person (a plain clothes police officer) was moving fast but never caught up with the first person (Elijah)," one witness said.
"I estimate the distance between them to be four or five car widths."
The second witness said Mr Holcombe's "demeanor seemed casual" and he was "in no hurry just strolling along". She said he had complied with an undercover officer's orders to stop and was calm, contrary to police claims that he ignored warnings to drop his knife.
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* We forgive our son's killer Daily Telegraph, 5 Jun 2009
* 'They did not have to kill my husband' NEWS.com.au, 4 Jun 2009
* 'Cops should be ashamed' over slain man NEWS.com.au, 4 Jun 2009
"The young man turned around casually and I would say he had a look of bewilderment on his face - but he was fairly calm and casual," the woman said.
"He just turned around and stood still. I can't remember anything about his hands - I was looking at his face. He didn't say anything."
On the day of the shooting Assistant Commissioner Geoff McKechnie said the officer had no choice but to shoot Mr Holcombe because he had made threats with a knife and refused to put down the weapon.
One witness said there was no attempt by the undercover officer to negotiate with Mr Holcombe.
"The gun discharged immediately after the third warning. I remember also that the third warning was immediately after the second warning," she said.
"The young man came off the footpath into the gutter. He fell into the gutter. His head moved around a bit. His body moved slightly. I did not see the young man with a weapon."
The sworn statements were made independently by two women who had parked their cars near the scene of the shooting behind the Armidale shopping centre.
Mr Holcombe's widow Allison Garvey had told The Daily Telegraph she is "completely devastated"
"The police were presented with many choices and in every instance they (made) the most careless choice they could make," she said.
A NSW Police spokesman last night refused to comment.
"An independent Critical Incident Investigation team is preparing a report," the spokesman said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574...45-421,00.html
so the homicidal schizophrenic guy they shot with a knife, was actually calm, reasonable and obeying orders by the cop... and he didnt even have a knife?
oh those silly witness's clearly they're only saying these horrible things to make the cop look bad so they can get in the paper!
thats all it is surely.
Data downloaded from the officer's stun gun -- now being rolled out to police across Australia -- has revealed that amphetamines addict Antonio Galeano was shot at least 20 times, each for a duration of five seconds, before he collapsed and died while in handcuffs.
Capsicum spray had also been used on Mr Galeano during the incident, early Friday morning at a unit in Brandon, south of Townsville.
Police initially told the media that an unnamed senior constable had only used the weapon three times on Mr Galeano, 39, who earlier had allegedly assaulted a woman and was wielding a metal pipe when confronted by the officer and his partner, a first-year constable.
But The Australian can exclusively reveal that an inbuilt system in the controversial weapon -- which automatically records each time the weapon is fired -- indicated Mr Galeano was shot more than 20 times.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...1-2702,00.html
the counter must be on the fritz obviously, the cop already stated he only used it 3 times on a guy who had been put in handcuffs.
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=30862.40
Last edited by Bodzilla; July 25th, 2009 at 11:39 PM.
Bodie, calm down. This isn't the thread for that; you should know, you're one of the section mods.
Find random funny articles, stick to them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.
Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.
She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops.
Australia supplies about 50% of the world's legally-grown opium used to make morphine and other painkillers.
"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Lara Giddings told the hearing.
"Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."
Rick Rockliff, a spokesman for poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids, said the wallaby incursions were not very common, but other animals had also been spotted in the poppy fields acting unusually.
"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," he added.
Retired Tasmanian poppy farmer Lyndley Chopping also said he had seen strange behaviour from wallabies in his fields.
"They would just come and eat some poppies and they would go away," he told ABC News.
"They'd come back again and they would do their circle work in the paddock."
Some people believe the mysterious circles that appear in fields in a number of countries are created by aliens. Others put them down to a human hoax.
Here are some of your not so serious responses.
I have seen a stoned wallaby but I don't know about them making crop circles. The one I saw was slurring his words and asking me for a dollar as he was trying to get the boat to see his brother in New Zealand - he looked in no mood to be formulating a series of complex agricultural design patterns. I could be wrong - they might have masterminded the twin tower attacks, who really knows?
Dijon, Hobart, Tasmania
This has to be the funniest headline of the year so far. Trippy Skippy.
Arcadian, Oxford
My cat Monkey, a Tonkinese cat, started to walk in circles mysteriously about two months ago. My suspicion is the radar from the two police cars parked in front of my apartment building has an effect or sonar like sound that humans cannot hear may have an effect. I was struck by this news article and had to respond.
Barbara Ann Levy, West Palm Beach, Florida
I resent this report that we are high as a kite and making crop circles! I haven't been stoned since 1971. A few young hoppers eat the wrong plant and you trash our species in the news. What's this world coming to!
Wally Baby, Australia Bush
I saw a whole bunch of them dingos going mad in my corn field only last night. I'm not sure if they were high or not but I'm pretty sure they were. One of them had a ghettoblaster and they were listening to some kind of fast electronic music. Lock 'em up and throw away the key, that's what I say!
Roger, Melbourne
I was travelling in Tasmania in the summer of last year and witnessed what I believed as dancing wallabies. I was intoxicated at the time and so put it down to the poppies I had consumed earlier that day. However after reading this article that experience made a lot of sense.
Alan Rees , Tring
Bumped into a couple o' stoned wallabies coming out the co-op up Lochgelly high street the other night. This seems to be a problem on both sides of the globe.
John Smith, Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland
I've lived in Tasmania for many years. Not only do wallabies congregate in poppy fields, but also on the local golf courses. They do this mainly at night and I can only assume they're playing several rounds of golf while avoiding greens fees. You only need to be really worried when one of the stoned wallabies gets into a golf buggy.
John Larson, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
I want to know who sold out the wallabies? Who's the narc? My guess is the platypus, he is such an odd duck.
Chet Guest, St. Paul, Minnesota USA
Don't know about crop circles but I saw one today trying to jack a car, presumably trying to get enough together for his next fix.
Greg Corcoran, Durham, UK
The question should be whether or not those law breaking wallabies should be brought to justice for indulging in illegal substances. The law makes no exceptions for no-one no matter what their excuse is or even what species they may be. They are not setting an example for their joeys nor for any other marsupials and I fear this could become an epidemic of outback size proportions.
Phil, Edinburgh
e/f;b
"Refusing to move on" is a bit different from physically lashing out at a cop. If you attack a cop, you deserve to get tasered for being so stupid. I'm not even going to bother going through every point you've made there but it's pretty evident that the girl was not as blameless as the written report made her out to be.
If you work under constant threat of being shot at, stabbed, or attacked by druggies with used syringes, you're not likely to take any chances. If someone starts getting aggressive, you're not going to think twice about putting them down. Using a taser more than once or twice is definitely inexcusable and the officers involved should be kicked out of the force, but at the same time, I really want to hurt people who make out like each and every cop is the spawn of the devil himself and tasers are an evil instrument put into their hands to make the innocent suffer.
I don't know about you, but the only dealings I've ever had with the police were when I had to call them or when they came to our school for safety lectures. I don't mouth off or get violent, and I don't expect I'll ever get tased by them. If you stay calm and handle things properly, there is little chance of them pulling a taser on you and even if they do there will be absolutely NO justification for it. If some people are too flat-out stupid to realise that, I honestly don't care what happens to them. It's their own fault.
i'm pretty sure that if i was baby sitting an unconscious friend while waiting for an ambulance and i was told to fuck off i'd tell them to fuck off because i'm protecting them.
you know the whole "Mate" thing.
i'd do the same for you.
Hey guys, requesting that article, I thought it was posted here, about 5 badass soldiers that were too badass to be believable characters in a movie. or something like that. I looked through here, and did searches but i can't find it. Anyone have it?
Kanye west declares himself the King of Pop
Kanye West is new self-appointed King of Pop
In a move typical of the modest and understated Kanye West, he has deigned himself the new King Of Pop. The always demure and self-deprecating reluctantly stepped up to the position no one asked him to fill. He humbly states, "There's no one who can match me in sales and in respect (one assumes he means self-respect) so it only makes sense for me to take over Michael's crown and become the new King of Pop." He added, "First there was Elvis, then there was Michael, now in the 21st century it's Kanye's time to rule."
He then presumably ripped the King of Pop scepter from Michael's bony hands and waited for his procession to his grand, tacky castle. The coronation ceremony is yet to be announced.
This is awesome on multiple levels. First, it has Kanye referring to himself in third person, which is always the greatest sign of douchery. Second, it is more a military coupe than democratic decision, which is actually very typical of monarchy. Screw what the people think! King Henry Kanye iV answers to no one! Third, no offense to the massive talent Elvis and Michael possessed, would you really want to inherit that legacy? They didn't do so well, personal-life-wise.
Can't wait for the Shakespearean play praising his rise to power and his heroic decisions in battle. Unless it plays off more like Richard III.
hahahahaha what a fag.
fish.
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