Jack Booted Thugs - Reborn!

One of the hot videos floating around is the one of those Georgia cops responding to a call from a fearful 57-year-old school teacher afraid that there was a prowler on her premises. Her reward for calling the police for 'help' was getting tazed repeatedly while begging them to stop electrocuting her.

This particular incident is just another in a long line of incidents of Local Law enforcement 'assisting' the public via electrocution. One of my favorites is the story of the man who called EMS for his grandmother... oh... read the sad tale for yourself... with some of these reckless tazings leading to death. You would think typing the words 'taser' 'old' and 'woman' into your favorite search engine would just lead you to some really strange porno sites as opposed to a list of articles and videos of cops actually tasing old women.

This is happening to the level where its clearly become a problem so the question is why do we have this upswing of manual police electrocutions taking place? Well, there the 'Hangover Factor' where it was really, really funny watching Bradley Cooper and his crew get repeatedly electrocuted by those Las Vegas cops in that movie. Of course our heroes were fine in the next scene a few minutes later and thus maybe these officers are unaware of the consequences of manual electrocution and maybe should stop watching wacky comedies.

Then there's the 'bitch-ass-punk' factor. A friend of mine... not me because I don't think this... but a friend mine pointed out that almost every bitch-ass-punk he knew in high school grew up to become a cop. Thus years of self worth and self-confidence issues are instantly resolved the minute they strap that gun to their hip. And since these bitch-ass-punks were bullied relentlessly in high school, they in turn bully old sick ladies with their portable electrocution devices, as a sort of revenge since they were such bitch ass punks back in the day. That's what he said, not me.

I tend to lead towards the 'Ease of Use /Lack of Consequence' factor. Here in Detroit our cops don't carry tasers, they only carry .45's. So if I have a .45 I'm going to seriously give it some thought before pulling it out and blowing you clean away. I'll do it, but I'm gonna give a little thought first. Not so much if I have a taser. At the slightest hint of a ruckus, instead of using the training that I was given to calm a situation down, I'm going whip out my device and electrocute you. Note that every time I shock you with my electrocution device you will bounce around on the floor like a dying fish which I will take as an 'aggressive movement' which is threatening my 'safety' which will force me to you shock again and again until you stop moving aggressively. Besides, it's just a few thousand volts as opposed to a bullet so you will recover. Eventually. Unless you die.

I used to think these things were a good alternative to assisting our beleaguered officers in keeping the peace, that is opposed to getting clean blown away but it appears I was wrong. I didn't figure on the 'I'm too lazy to do my job' factor which ultimately leads to the quick decision to electrocute on sight. Personally, I'll take my chances with a semi-literate cop trying to talk me out of situation with his holstered .45 than electrocuting me on sight.