Guess you better listen next time, huh?

Now he's a defenastrated, diabetic paraplegic man with handicapped license plates.

What motherfarkin assholes.

When will it be legal to shoot pigs?

Thought you were an anarchist, REAL SHAMAN, what the fark do you care if it's legal or not?

"He was going from one lane to the other lane. He was going up hills on the wrong side. He was coming off in the ditch and coming back on," Rutledge said.

Could have just been a woman on a cell phone.

peachpicker

Cuz I want company. The more the merrier.

If company's all you want there are plenty of cop killers in prison. Otherwise it just looks like you lack the strength of your convictions.

And besides, anarchists are so 100 years ago...

OK why is a PARAPLEGIC (sp?) driving in the first place, thats an oxymoron.

or am i the only one to notice this

"The misunderstanding happened when police removed the Harvey Watson from his vehicle"

Jesus, how may of him are there?

TexasIsBetter

Its called hand controls, champ...

TexasIsBetter

No, you're simple a moran. The guy had hand controls if you RTFA.

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If he's driving as erratically as the article says, maybe this is a good thing to get him off the road.

TexasIsBetter

Modern science is amazing and has figured out a way to move the pedals from the floorboard to the steering column.

It took ten million dollars and 45 years of work, but one more of the universe's riddles can be checked off the list.

my hometown/area (murfreesboro/nashville) is on a roll today.

This reminds me of the thread the other day about the guy having a sroke that ended up cuffed to a chair at the police station for two hours waiting for blood tests to determine if he was DUI.

As I said then, this is the kind of shiat you can expect when you have a system where officers are rewarded for "bagging" the most DUI suspects. DUI laws are nothing more than a "cash cow" for most jurisdictions, and if the officers so much as have a hunch you may be impaired, you can bet you'll be run through the ringer. I mean, the officers in this article were probably one arrest away from "officer of the month" and a sure promotion to a nice, cozy desk jockey position.

"There will be no 'driving with hand controls' in my town. None of that 'handicapped' shenanigans"

Nashville trifeca complete!

I submitted with the headline Paraplegic Man Feels He Was Roughed Up By Police.

Here in Los Angeles, the LAPD will beat the diabetes/parapalegia right out of you if you don't cooperate. Damn it.

"To Protect and To Serve"

Wow, so the way to get permission to beat on the crippled and sickly is just 6 months of police training(random number)? And I get to carry a firearm as well?

FANTASTIC!

ok, let's please not turn this into a texas thing.

I used to work with a guy who was about 2 foot 8. Ever seen a modified car for dwarves? Kind of interesting - the pedals come up to about where the seat starts. Funny thing was that it was a really big car (old lincoln town car, I think it was).

That said, I think the cop should be made to do lots of community service at a paraplegic ward.

if this guy had pulled this kind of shiat in florida he'd have over a hundred rounds in his crippled ass and his head cut off and thrown into a mosque.

"Policemen sometimes beat up people for the wrong reasons"

I know it's in very very bad taste, but someone needs to make an "I'd hit it!" image featuring rodney king...

Cue the "I'm going to kick your ass and get away with it" sign.

That article was really terribly written.

/Comma splice, motherfarker, don't you use it!

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why would the police glance at the license plate?

you can't expect the police to be that smart.

Heroic Poser:
defenastrated!

Man, I havent heard that word since high school latin class! Have you been waiting for a "guy goes throw the window" thread just to use it?

That first "a" should be an "e", but its alright, that made my night.

Maybe TexasIsBetter was thinking of quadriplegic?

I'm a paraplegic diabetic driver. So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.

Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't.

And so on and so forth...

It bugs the hell out of me when the absense of use of the most basic disipline of common sense is excused by the permissive "following proceedure" doctrine.

Crosshair
"He was going from one lane to the other lane. He was going up hills on the wrong side. He was coming off in the ditch and coming back on," Rutledge said.

Could have just been a woman on a cell phone.


Or just a woman...

Yep, one of my ex-best-friends is a paraplegic and he had hand controls in his cars. Push the handle clockwise and it pushes on the gas pedal; push the handle straight down (along the axis of the steering column) and it applies the brake. It was a simple mechanical lever system physically bolted to the pedals. Plus, it had a switch for high beams (most cars of that vintage have a footswitch for high/low beams.)

Riding in a car being driven with hand controls feels no different from one being driven by an ablebodied person. Plus, this dude did the friggin RUBICON TRAIL in his built Jeep in '92!

The only thing I believe they haven't yet mastered is the application of hand controls to a stickshift car. One more pedal plus having to switch between hand control and stick while shifting would make for an extreme driving challenge!

Back to TFA: the damn cops should be fired and banned from anything having to do with law enforcement for life. Stuff like this harms public opinion of LE and reinforces the "jack-booted thug" attitude many have towards cops. The cops had every right to test him for drunk driving based on his erratic behavior, but they should have at least noticed things like DISABLED PLATES and most likely a WHEELCHAIR in the car before letting their testosterone get the best of them!

Oh yeah, sue the bastards as well. Where's that idiot attorney in LA they were talking about on KFI last week, who sues restaurants for petty ADA technicalities like a toilet being 1/2 inch too close to a wall? Here's something he could really cash in on and get public support for as well!

Lots of Tennessee news today. Must be a slow day.

Gotta love cops. Always have your best interests at heart.

Here ya go, electricmayhem:

Hey what does he want? Cops are paid to shot not to think.

The driver sounds dangerous, but there has to have been a better way for the police to handle the situation. He should be suspended without pay, at the very least.

shot=shoot

I for one feel safer that such a threat was taken off of our streets. You're doing a heckuva job there, boys!

"The original complainants, who witnessed the entire event, have given statements indicating our officers did nothing wrong."


Cops never do anything wrong. Any questionable action taken by an officer is either a proper defensive maneuver, an understandable reaction to a perceived threat, an honest mistake, or "our job is dangerous we can do whatever we want waaaaaaaah!"

natewill

i made a giggle

I personally have never heard a cop admit a mistake.

This creates what is commonly known as a "credibility gap" between what a cop says happened, and what really went down.

I had no way of knowing he wasn't high on PCP and thinking of trying to take my gun away...so I was forced to shoot him dead.

I don't care what you say, I am still in love with Mariska Hargitay.

Based on the incident report, a spokesman with the sheriff's report said officers followed procedure.

This is pig for "we're covering our ass."
Since when does a department have a policy immediately drag alleged drunk drivers from thier cars?

Hand controls are so 1960's I once worked for a paraplegic who drove a with a cane. Just used it to push on the gas and the brakes. Old man was hell on wheels.

Watson's wife LeAnn Watson called 911 earlier to notify police that something had gone wrong with her husband.

What is he, a paraplegic android?

studebaker hoch

I personally have never heard a cop admit a mistake.

Relatives that were cops tell me that a big part of thier training is how to "assert authority" and take control of the situation. In archaic cop-thought admitting a mistake is akin to showing weakness, which is a no-no.

In short it is most likely an indirectly ingrained attitude.