Taser Death
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- Witt0
ty dobs. same here.
- Witt0
honestly, as the news goes, how can a handgun hold 50000 volt charge?
- Witt0
on a 1st research:
- ok_not_ok0
PIGS!
- slappy0
cowardly.
- Witt0
well it's a gun. it shouldn't be used unless you have to defend yourself pretty bad. we're talking about a gun that runs high-voltage capable of discharging 50k volts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta...
should it have been used in that particular situation when a unarmed deranged man posed no treath to injury from a 4/1 body encounter?
- Witt0
- rafalski0
so far coroner says no heart attack, no aneurysm, no drugs, no alcohol.
- Witt0
It was def. a dreadful mistake.
- quagmire0
"But retired superintendent Ron Foyle, a 33-year veteran of the Vancouver police who saw the video tape, said he didn't know "why it ever became a police incident.""
exactly. i dont blame the guy for being angry.
what would you do if you get stuck in an airport overnight and without anyone being able to understand a word youre saying?
it might have helped if they called for an interpreter when they found out he couldnt speak english.
dont they have procedure for this kind of thing? the guy is obviously pissed then they call in the police?
- rafalski0
dont they have procedure for this kind of thing? the guy is obviously pissed then they call in the police?
quagmire
(Nov 15 07, 17:24)Again, he spent over 10 hours there, after an Atlantic flight and previous sleepless night on Frankfurt Airport, preceded by a long bus trip. 40 years old small village man, his first flight ever, moving to a country he'd never been to. This man was scared to death, sweating like a chased mouse.
He shouted "you won't accuse me of anything"
- JesseJensen0
What took so long is what I was thinking.
- quagmire0
if theyre looking for someone to blame, it should be the airport officials who kept him at the airport for that long without an interpreter(im assuming cause they didnt even know he was speaking in polish). they could have contacted his mother and the embassy which gave him his visa in that 10 hours.
you can only expect things to get worse once you bring the police in.
- rafalski0
His mother waited for him at the airport for a long time, then she was told he wasn't there so she went home.
Had they called a Russian interpreter, they'd know instantly what language it was. They still assumed it was Russian, so it's obvious they didn't make the call.
- quagmire0
its obvious they didn't try to reach his mother either. immigrants are required to carry contact numbers and addresses of relatives or whoever they'll be staying with when they reach their destination. if his mom didn't have a mobile, they could have reached her when she got home.
that 10 hour wait at the airport was probably like hell to him knowing his 60yr old mother was waiting for him and they cant even tell her that his son is already there.
there was a show here in aus called border security and the same thing happened to this korean lady. in her case they called an interpreter and did everything by speaker phone, when they cleared that up they tried to reach her boyfriend managed to contact him when he went home after waiting at the aiport for a few hours.
- slappy0
Russians can understand a lot of Polish and vice versa. They would have been able to communicate a message easily enough.
- rafalski0
That's true slappy. He must've had Russian in grammar school if he was 40, it was compulsory until about 1990.
I read that the coroner (or prosecutor?) plans to go to Poland as part of the investigation. What for? I don't know but have a guess. The man was 40 and apparently barely supporting himself, going to live with his mother. His behaviour was awkward, people usually find their ways around airports despite lack of experience and language skills. Maybe they suspect a mental disability of sorts and want to prove he shouldn't fly on his own in the first place.
The mother found herself a lawyer and is going to sue I heard.
- ok_not_ok0
CANADIAN BACONS!
- mrdobolina0
someone said it earlier, he had to have a passport which would have shown his nationality.
- Witt0
Apparently 18 have died in Canada alone since July 2003 and 280 dead are estimated in the US since 2001.
Not bad for a non-lethal weapon...