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Police taser old blind man.

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  • #2
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    That's a very dangerous looking samurai sword he's brandishing


  • #3
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,501 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Where they blind or wha'?


  • #4
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    I think our police thankfully have alot more cop-on than UK/US policemen. They get a lot of stick but they keep the peace with feck all facilties and equipment, unlike the above robo-cops.


  • #5
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    donvito99 wrote: »
    I think our police thankfully have alot more cop-on than UK/US policemen. They get a lot of stick but they keep the peace with feck all facilties and equipment, unlike the above robo-cops.

    Were these intentional?!


  • #6
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    I await the usual comments from the chicken brigade to the effect of "It's his fault. He should not have been blind", "he should not have been carrying something that could be mistaken for a samurai sword" blah, blah.

    It's all his fault. Cops shoulda shot him 100 times.


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  • #7
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,510 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    The police have had a crippling fear of blind swordsmen since Zatoichi.


  • #8
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Don't taze me bro!


  • #9
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    donvito99 wrote: »
    I think our police thankfully have alot more cop-on than UK/US policemen. They get a lot of stick but they keep the peace with feck all facilties and equipment, unlike the above robo-cops.

    I think we have less cock ups like this precisely because the Gardai don't have the equipment. Also the UK has a population of 63 million. We have about 5 million. You're going to see just a few more incidents in the UK than here no matter what.
    We're a small damp island with a lot of fields, I don't think people register this enough. Comparing Ireland to the US is just mental. The ****ing size of the place.


  • #10
    Jay D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Jay D


    They deserve a Darwin Award.


  • #11
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    That is no country for (blind) old men (to not get tasered in)


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Unfortuantely most police forces reject applicants who have above-average intelligence. (on the grounds that that will get bored and quit after wasting money training them).

    So you've got a lot of thickos going around with tasers. This kind of thing is inevitable.


  • #13
    bluecode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    Now we know why they won't give guns to the British police. But they would have to go a long way to match this one for utter stupidity.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207293/Police-officer-kills-armed-legged-man-waving-shiny-object-turned-pen.html

    Yes I know it's the Daily Mail, sorry.

    Then of course there's this during the Olympics:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/08/olympics-spectator-parkinsons-arrest-smiling

    The Guardian, sorry again.


  • #14
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Suprised Asherbassad hasn't posted yet, oh wait. British police.


  • #15
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Sounds like that cop had just watched Blind Fury


  • #16
    previous user
    Registered Users Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭previous user


    Ha, thats gas


  • #17
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    'One of the officers who arrived in Chorley believed he had located the offender. Despite asking the man to stop, he failed to do so and the officer discharged his Taser

    'This policeman knelt on me and dragged my arms round my back and handcuffed me so tight I've had bruises since

    'I walk at a snail's pace. They could have walked past me


    Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/915286-police-use-taser-on-blind-man-whose-stick-was-mistaken-for-samurai-sword#ixzz29bhxeap5


    Reading these three lines together, there's no excuse there like.


  • #18
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Video link?


  • #19
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Shocking.


  • #20
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    Looks like those rozzers need to go to Specsavers themselves if they thought the white stick was a samurai sword - or any kind of sword for that matter.:rolleyes:

    Mind you, the police force did apologise, which is more than an Garda Siochana ever does for its members' cock-ups.:D:D


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