After viewing this video of a Utah highway patrolman using a taser on a motorist, I had a couple of competing thoughts.
1. You act like a dick with the cops at your own peril.
2. If your boyfriend is getting tased by the cops, and you don’t stay in the vehicle, you probably deserve to get tased too just for being an idiot.
And most importantly,
3. If your buddy brought home an official police issue taser from work, how many beers do you think you’d need before playing with it seemed like a good idea?
My personal over/under is probably 4.
If there are more than two guys involved and no wives within shouting distance, the over/under drops to 2.
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Well as you know I’ve got some background when it comes to getting pulled over…..hehe.
There are so many things wrong with this video from BOTH parties it’s hard to beleive it’s real.
If you add up the number of times each person did something wrong I think it comes up about even. My verdict….
1) Driver must take a class on what not to do when you get pulled over.
2) Officer need to be retrained on how and when to use that thing. Not to metion the fact he completely forgets the first thing you do when you ask a driver to get out of the car…”Put your hands on the vehicle and spread your legs. (If Super Trooper would have done this straight away there would be no need to pull that taser)
3) Driver should get a free shot a the officers nuts for using unjustifiable force. (The guy was in arms reach Super Trooper, reach out and grab ‘em. You’ve been trained to subdue a perp right?)
4) Cops get shot all the time. Never, NEVER do anything that makes a cop jumpy sooooooo Mr. Driver KEEP YOUR DAMN HANDS IN SIGHT!!!! You put your hand in your pocket while speaking with an officer, yeah…he’s gonna get nervous.
5) Tasers should be outlawed. Period. All they are is a failed military weapon. The companies who made these things spent too much money developing a useless weapon so what do they do….”It’s an alternative to deadly force.” So’s a friggin nightstick and so’s all that personal defense training we pay for.
Oh….
Hell if there were no wives around you know we’d try it sober.
I can picture the scene now….
Ooops forgot my name there….
That said, you know you’d love to have a taser at your disposal at work, AJ.
You can admit it.
Damn skippy!!!