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(Some Guy)   "Suspect Dies Following Scuffle." So remember, kids: Never follow a scuffle   (clarionledger.com) divider line
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jshove1
2008-02-06 4:01:29 PM  
The more you know.
 
SweetSilverBlues
2008-02-06 4:01:35 PM  
Kudos, Subby. I giggled.
 
AnnoyingKidNextDoor
2008-02-06 4:01:40 PM  
Boobies!

/sorry, always wanted to do that. I'll go away now.
 
safeinsane
2008-02-06 4:01:42 PM  
Woozle wozzle?
 
daffy
2008-02-06 4:01:53 PM  
SHOCKING!
 
Zed X
2008-02-06 4:03:05 PM  
Don't rape me, bro!
 
SweetSilverBlues
2008-02-06 4:03:26 PM  
AnnoyingKidNextDoor: Boobies!

/sorry, always wanted to do that. I'll go away now.

Pwned by the philter.
 
Jacobin
2008-02-06 4:03:42 PM  
This is why I always keep a bottle of this handy:
 
Dreamer254
2008-02-06 4:04:13 PM  
I laughed. Good one.
 
blacknite [TotalFark]
2008-02-06 4:04:45 PM  
sounds like a headline of the year candidate
 
daffy
2008-02-06 4:05:01 PM  
Jacobin: This is why I always keep a bottle of this handy:

What, What do you keep handy. I hate when this happens.
 
Zed X
2008-02-06 4:05:23 PM  
Jacobin: This is why I always keep a bottle of this handy:

Funny, I always thought 'nothing' came in a big, brown bag.
 
hotter than the ads
2008-02-06 4:06:02 PM  
What if the scuffle has candy and shiny toys in its unmarked van?
 
Delightfully Charming
2008-02-06 4:06:03 PM  
Jacobin: This is why I always keep a bottle of this handy:

The suspence is killing me!
 
Jello Fever
2008-02-06 4:06:28 PM  
"Authorities don't think the tasering had any role in the suspect's death."

Yeeeeeeeeeah, right.
 
davynelson
2008-02-06 4:07:15 PM  
Wow, finally a taser death where the guy deserved it.

Kudos, pigs.
 
tortilla burger
2008-02-06 4:09:34 PM  
Normally I'd side with the victim on a Taser death, but this time may have been justified. The cop felt a tug on his gun during a fight with the suspect. So it's not as if the cop just zapped him without provocation.
 
satanorsanta
2008-02-06 4:09:52 PM  
If there was no taser this asshole would've been beaten with a nightstick. He deserved it either way
 
littlett's
2008-02-06 4:11:41 PM  
"The officers went to his house and asked him about it, and he said he didn't do it. Then he turned to go back inside the house. One of the officers tried to place him under arrest, and that's when he began fighting and resisting arrest," Pennington said.

Something tells me this guy had problems anyway.
 
FunkOut
2008-02-06 4:12:49 PM  
satanorsanta: If there was no taser this asshole would've been beaten with a nightstick. He deserved it either way

Yeah, and if they didn't have a nightstick, they would have sodomized him with a '73 Buick LeSabre.
 
twiztedjustin
2008-02-06 4:18:17 PM  
*Shakes fist @ subby*
 
Ignominiousbob
2008-02-06 4:20:38 PM  
Come for the puns, stay for the fascist lawnorder comments.
 
bdashill
2008-02-06 4:27:52 PM  
I love when suspects die from scuffles. Avoids all that expensive courtroom/prison garbage.
 
darth_nick23
2008-02-06 4:30:24 PM  
oh, i thought i died in a shuffle, you know like a dance off maybe?

or a kansas city shuffle?
 
luckybastard
2008-02-06 4:34:33 PM  
+1 I lol'd at the headline
 
Mega Steve
2008-02-06 4:36:17 PM  
Sounds like he needed to be removed from the gene pool, anyway. Glad the woman and child weren't seriously hurt.
 
big fuzzy balls
2008-02-06 4:44:06 PM  
+1

awesome headline subby...you're making the time spent on the phone with Dell pass sweetly.
 
millsapian87
2008-02-06 4:46:25 PM  
> So it's not as if the cop just zapped him without provocation.

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"He's coming right for us!"
 
WacoCowGirl
2008-02-06 4:56:27 PM  
Zed X Don't rape me, bro!


Came to say this! You beat me to it.
 
Chilly Willie
2008-02-06 5:05:03 PM  
Tortilla Burger

Normally I'd side with the victim on a Taser death, but this time may have been justified. The cop said hefelt a tug on his gun during a fight with the suspect.

Then, they sprinkled some crack on him.

FTFY
 
Xenu's Giant Pink Replicock
2008-02-06 5:28:26 PM  
I saw Scuffle in Detroit, it was a great show. I don't remember anything but the random beej I got. I guess the chick woke up that morning and said "this won't be a great show unless I make it a great show."

Great show.
 
emnar
2008-02-06 5:42:10 PM  
Headline is ripped off from James Taranto. Subby fails.
 
ippolit
2008-02-06 5:52:30 PM  
From my Best of the Web Today email which published on WSJ's site at 2:51pm:


Remember, Kids, Never Follow a Scuffle
"Suspect Dies Following Scuffle"--headline, Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), Feb. 5


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120231358628248003.html?mod=Best+of+the+Web+To da y

Anyone know when subby posted to TF?
 
sbrister
2008-02-06 6:12:01 PM  
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was being withheld, pending notification of next of kin.

/Ma'am I sorry to tell you your husband is dead
// We killed him
/// After he tried to rape your neighbor
 
rkl307
2008-02-06 6:33:36 PM  
"one of the deputies used the Taser after another deputy said he felt a tug on his gun"

News flash: video clip shot during police muster shows the sargeant saying: "now repeat after me, 'I felt the deceased suspect tug at my gun', 'I felt the deceased suspect tug at my gun', 'I felt the deceased suspect tug at my gun'. Don't say anything else, and we can save you".
 
Roger Wilco
2008-02-06 7:40:31 PM  
"Later that night, Captain McIntyre was killed by a following sea."
 
Jello Fever
2008-02-06 9:45:37 PM  
Nearly 200 deaths from tasers in the past five years.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/44455/?page=1

Relevant quote, "That's the magic word 'resisting', any kind of police oversight investigation tends to end right there."

So...apparently there was no arrest warrant. They went to this guy's house and he said he didn't do it, and turned around on them. This was enough 'resisting' to tase him to death. Later, apparently, the police got together and decided that their story was that they'd told him he was "under arrest".

/dude probably did it, since he was ID'd as a neighbor. but we'll never get his story, cause he's just another dead guy.
 
altmulder
2008-02-06 10:25:35 PM  
Shot in the fracus??
 
eno
2008-02-06 11:49:05 PM  
+1 OR SO
 
nashBridges
2008-02-07 12:06:37 AM  
Pennington said he did not think the man died from the Taser shock. He said he thinks MHP toxicology tests might reveal drugs or alcohol played a part in the death.

It's not like this man's opinion counts for much, but if the drugs and alcohol weren't killing him immediately BEFORE the shot from the Taser, then the cause of death is the Taser.

I'm all for a good tasering if one is warned first, but cops the country over seem to think you can use them like a fail safe "just in case" without any concern for the consequences. It seems to me that you can't use Tasers on the elderly, infirm, otherwise sick, or naturally weak. I don't have an especially strong heart, but I'm in good health besides that. I'm terrified a traffic stop where I refuse to give my DNA sample will result in a tasering. Then I'll be a fark story.
 
Jello Fever
2008-02-07 12:24:37 AM  
Trying to run back in your house, you better believe that's a tasering.

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one_more_step_and_the_girl_gets_it
2008-02-07 1:21:03 AM  
Jello Fever has the right idea, but it is only half a thought...which should be obvious from the links he posted.

They did not need a warrant to arrest him, or to interview him, or to tase him...it was based on the statements of the victim, and the availability of a fully charged taser.

I love those things! I do not love Jello Fever as he/she seems like he/she would rather go for a ride with Teddy Kennedy instead of just talking to the cops.

Libtard
 
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