Comments on: Tased & Confused in North America http://backwomb.com/2007/12/10/tased-confused-in-north-america/ Back Room Disputations Resulting in Truthful Gestations Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:07:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dagsy http://backwomb.com/2007/12/10/tased-confused-in-north-america/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Dagsy Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:36:27 +0000 http://backwomb.com/2007/12/10/tased-confused-in-north-america/#comment-300 Being from Vancouver, i needed to clarify a few things that may you wonder even more about the incident. The area where the Polish guy is trying to leave is NOT immigration. Immigration is way before that. When you arrive in vancouver, you go down the stairs, then you get to immigration. After that is luggage carousels, then a hallway which leads to connecting canadian flights. That's where he was standing. those doors that are opening and closing is where the area ends between passengers and where people can pick them up. The fact that he was tasered in this area (well ok .. tasered at all) is absurd. the poor guy was waiting over 9 hours in an airport, with no access to food or water. I would go crazy too. His poor mum kept asking the information desk where her son could be, because he was supposed to be on the flight, they kept saying "we dont know", "maybe he didnt get on the flight".. this whole concept of tasering is just disgusting. How many deaths do we need? I remember the case of the 11 year old who was tasered at school by "campus" security because he was behaving badly in the principals office. I agree that tasers can be a useful tool, but not in the circumstances where they have been used so often. It's like the police think of it as an easy option. I understand they fear for their lives, so i can understand it in certain circumstances - but certainly not these. Btw.. if the taser didnt kill the polish guy, i'm sure the baton smashes to his body sure did the trick. Being from Vancouver, i needed to clarify a few things that may you wonder even more about the incident. The area where the Polish guy is trying to leave is NOT immigration. Immigration is way before that. When you arrive in vancouver, you go down the stairs, then you get to immigration. After that is luggage carousels, then a hallway which leads to connecting canadian flights. That’s where he was standing. those doors that are opening and closing is where the area ends between passengers and where people can pick them up. The fact that he was tasered in this area (well ok .. tasered at all) is absurd. the poor guy was waiting over 9 hours in an airport, with no access to food or water. I would go crazy too. His poor mum kept asking the information desk where her son could be, because he was supposed to be on the flight, they kept saying “we dont know”, “maybe he didnt get on the flight”..

this whole concept of tasering is just disgusting. How many deaths do we need? I remember the case of the 11 year old who was tasered at school by “campus” security because he was behaving badly in the principals office.

I agree that tasers can be a useful tool, but not in the circumstances where they have been used so often. It’s like the police think of it as an easy option. I understand they fear for their lives, so i can understand it in certain circumstances – but certainly not these.

Btw.. if the taser didnt kill the polish guy, i’m sure the baton smashes to his body sure did the trick.

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