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Deputy Tasers 90-Pound 13-Year-Old Girl At Hospital
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| 6/24/05
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Posted on 06/24/2005 10:07:17 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: TASMANIANRED
I've seen a patient break a nurses jaw but never the other way around.
My mom worked in a mental hospital in the 50's. Before Thorazine. Before tasers. And it wasn't the juvenile wing.
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posted on
06/24/2005 7:45:14 PM PDT
by
elli1
To: elli1
"My mom worked in a mental hospital in the 50's. Before Thorazine. Before tasers. And it wasn't the juvenile wing."
Are you saying your mom broke a patients jaw.
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posted on
06/24/2005 7:47:15 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
To: TASMANIANRED
Are you saying your mom broke a patients jaw.
Absolutely not.
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posted on
06/24/2005 7:50:02 PM PDT
by
elli1
To: I still care
I would think if they're close enough to taser, they're close enough to use a 'tranquilizing dart'.
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posted on
06/24/2005 7:58:17 PM PDT
by
mommadooo3
(Old concept in justice. If the law won't take care of it, it's just us.)
To: Mr. Lucky
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posted on
06/24/2005 8:02:01 PM PDT
by
skr
(May God bless those in harm's way and confound those who would do the harming)
To: mommadooo3
They probably didn't know what chemicals she had in her at that point, as well as not knowing her weight for dosage.
If she had died, there might be some news value to this report; but she didn't, so why does it matter how she had to be restrained? What's the acceptable weight of biting, kicking people for tasering? They must've used a low setting, if there is such a thing, since they still had to restrain her afterwards.
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posted on
06/24/2005 8:16:25 PM PDT
by
skr
(May God bless those in harm's way and confound those who would do the harming)
To: oldbrowser
No doubt that they probably saved her lifeApril Rene Burleson, who is 4-foot-9 and weighs 90 pounds
Yeah, they have put a bullet in her brain.
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posted on
06/24/2005 8:21:30 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: Fawn
If you have ever been in a close up situation with a totally berserk person, I don't think you would be asking that question. Particularly one that's chemically induced. It defies belief.
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posted on
06/24/2005 8:22:51 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
To: Fawn
Sorry Fawn, but do you expect grown Men to be able to handle a 90 pound, 13 year old, girl?
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posted on
06/24/2005 8:27:12 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
WHAT is so hard about all this?
If the little ho want to ACT like an animal,
shoot her with a tranquilizer dart!
:)
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posted on
06/24/2005 8:29:03 PM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(NEVER underestimate the ~power~ of righteous indignation!!)
To: blu
I'm starting to think that our law enforcement guys are a bunch of pantywaists!! It seems like they're all afraid of getting hurt. Just curious, when and what was your last injury?
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posted on
06/24/2005 8:29:35 PM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: ChildOfThe60s
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posted on
06/24/2005 8:34:42 PM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: somniferum
Since this was happening in closed quarters they probably couldn't use pepper spray.. I really dont know what another alternative would be.. whack her in the head with a billy club? If you can't control a 90-lb (40kg) 13-year-old girl with your hands on her wrists and some stern, calm talk, then you are way too pussified to be a cop. All of those drugs are "downers" and she was chemically predidposed to passivity.
Incidentally, regarding your tagline: I'm not sure where you got that from, but I believe the proper translation is "A military operation involves deception." Your version, "All war is deception," is factually erroneous and philosphically *stupid*.
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posted on
06/24/2005 9:03:15 PM PDT
by
Yeti
To: TASMANIANRED
Ditto.
An orthopedist I know had his wrist shattered by a patient. They were unable to repair it and restore function to his hand. He is now out of a job.
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posted on
06/24/2005 9:05:49 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: kharaku
>A taser is NOT the weapon to restrain someone in that state. It is a good way to potentially give them a heart attack however.
Sounds reasonable, but what should they have done instead?
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posted on
06/24/2005 10:39:12 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I'm afraid that if I was her mother and had access to a taser I'd have to use it. 13 and drunk AND stoned? She needs an azz whoopin' and then she needs some serious help.
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posted on
06/24/2005 10:43:15 PM PDT
by
tiki
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
dat devil weed marijuana!!!
To: Yeti
Several of us old "bug housers", many of whom worked in children's programs for years are getting a kick out of your comments.
Also FYI kids often have opposite reactions to drugs as compared to adults, can be amazingly strong and extremely quick and agile. Don't let their size fool you.
The purpose is to subdue with the least amount of danger to the patient AND staff. I personally would not have preferred a tazer in any take down I was involved in, but we were never allowed darts either. Just an IM, in which the needle often came back broke or bent, and hopefully you didn't jab your coworker at the same time. Heck, sometimes coworkers ended up in the melee mistakenly restrained to the patient. It can be a real free for all.
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posted on
06/24/2005 10:47:33 PM PDT
by
tertiary01
(It took 21 years but 1984 finally got here.)
To: Fawn
bony assed little ferret woulda slipped right out of them!!
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Crack babies become this, according to people I know. It's sad.
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posted on
06/24/2005 10:58:00 PM PDT
by
BobS
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