Police officer blasts innocent man in groin with 50,000 volt Taser 'by accident'

dailymail.co.uk ^ | July 20, 2010 | Luke Salkeld

[Free ThinkerNY]

A man was shot in the groin with a 50,000 volt Taser gun by police who wrongly believed he had been driving without insurance.

Peter Cox was given the electric shock after he climbed out of his BMW to talk to officers who had been following him.

He had a brief conversation with them but suddenly collapsed to the ground in agony when one of the policemen discharged the weapon.

Yesterday Mr Cox, 49, said he was considering legal action against the force after it said the gun had been fired accidentally. In addition, it later emerged Mr Cox's car was insured.

Officers had been tailing the motorist as he drove through Bridgwater, Somerset.

When he stopped at the home of his partner Donna Allen, 47, where he was going to do some gardening, he asked the police what they wanted.

He said: 'I asked them to park on the other side of the road because we were working on the front garden.

'The officer didn't say anything, but he got out of the car and pulled out a Taser and pointed it at me.

'I didn't know this at the time so I just went on with what I was doing and got a bag of stone for the garden out of the boot. Then he shot me.'

Mr Cox denied acting aggressively. He said the Taser missed his genitals by three inches.

He continued: 'I was really shocked and I didn't know what was going on. I got one in my groin and one in my ankle.

[NormsRevenge]

Sue ‘em ‘til he owns City Hall..

accident, my foot.

[Siouxz]

And his name is Cox....

[mikrofon]

That would make the cop a Cox-shocker...

[disclaimer]

And his name is Cox....

Peter Cox

[JSteff]

This can't be a real story. PETER COX tasered in the GENITALS...
Really?

[Responsibility2nd]

Police officer blasts innocent man in groin with 50,000 volt Taser ‘by accident’

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Martin - I’m guessing this qualifies for your Mangled Genitals pinglist.

No pics available - but do we really need ‘em?

[Responsibility2nd]

Peter Cox - tazed in the Peter Cox ping

[al baby]

Well at least he didn’t blow his nutz off with his gun by mistake

[taildragger]

I hear that in the Upper West Side people pay good money to join clubs to have stuff done to them like this :-)...

[RFEngineer]

Peter Cox?

I wonder what his middle name is?

[unixfox]

Peter Cox was given the electric shock...

You can't make this stuff up.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Willie?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Willie?

[Kartographer]

So that’s what Jerry Lee Lewis was sing about. ;-)

[Grizzled Bear]

When ro-sham-bo gets out of hand!

[Slings and Arrows]

It's his own fault for not having a dog they could shoot.

[Mere Survival]

Foreplay?

[GaltMeister]

I bet all the guys at the neighborhood pub are now calling him ‘Twitchy’.

[politicalamity]

Richard