[Newsbot]

Title: Taser used on 80-year-old woman in Mississauga
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2013-09-03 14:44:52
Canadian

[Benn]

$1:

"fewer significant injuries" to police and the public.

Holy heck there had better be a lot more to this story than face value. How many "significant injuries" could an 80 year old woman give out with her bare hands that would require a taser?

Heck even coming at me with her cane I'd still not use one even if I was alone.


This is great news following this announcement

$1:

Ontario’s governing Liberals will allow police to expand the use of stun guns in the wake of last month’s fatal shooting of teenager Sammy Yatim aboard a Toronto streetcar.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/s ... ation.html

Expanded from dangerous criminals to the elderly?

[OnTheIce]

Benn Benn:

$1:

"fewer significant injuries" to police and the public.

Holy heck there had better be a lot more to this story than face value. How many "significant injuries" could an 80 year old woman give out with her bare hands that would require a taser?

Heck even coming at me with her cane I'd still not use one even if I was alone.


This is great news following this announcement

$1:

Ontario’s governing Liberals will allow police to expand the use of stun guns in the wake of last month’s fatal shooting of teenager Sammy Yatim aboard a Toronto streetcar.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/s ... ation.html

Expanded from dangerous criminals to the elderly?

The woman was holding a knife.

Funny how that part seems to be left out within the article.

The taser would have been more effective, and less dangerous to the officers and the woman compared to a tackle. The tackle could have done far more damage to the woman compared to a fall from a taser.

[Brenda]

They could have just shot her 9 times because of the knife... That's what they do in Ontario, right?

I mean, tasering is so YVR...

[BartSimpson]

Did they shoot her dog, too?

[Benn]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Benn Benn:

$1:

"fewer significant injuries" to police and the public.

Holy heck there had better be a lot more to this story than face value.

The woman was holding a knife.

Funny how that part seems to be left out within the article.

The taser would have been more effective, and less dangerous to the officers and the woman compared to a tackle. The tackle could have done far more damage to the woman compared to a fall from a taser.

And there it is, more of the story. Go figure CBC left out such trivial things like A WEAPON.

Use makes more sense now. You are right too, in such a case the fall from the taser would likely be better then dogpiling her to the ground or whacking her arm with a baton. Don't care the age, if there is an option to take down someone with a knife which does not require getting close to it then its the better option. Tasering someone that old however is a bit of a toss of the dice seeing as old people's tickers are not as strong, chance the damn thing could kill her, low but more than tasering a 20 year old.

[Zipperfish]

The SIU didn;t release the infomration about the knife, so none of the major news media reported it. Local papers provided that info in updates:


http://www.mississauga.com/news-story/4060058-siu-called-in-after-cops-taser-80-year-old-woman-in-streetsville/

This story also reports an "informed source" saying she was tasered twice. I, as usual, reserve judgment, but wiht the general notion that there are simply too mnay cops, and too mnay people calling 9-1-1 instead of settling things things out themselves.

[Jabberwalker]

I'll bet that the cop felt "pumped".

[ShepherdsDog]

in other news, the elderly woman's arrhythmia has disappeared and her memory now works properly

[Jabberwalker]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

in other news, the elderly woman's arrhythmia has disappeared and her memory now works properly

Oh, and she has a certain "glow" about her.

[Benn]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

in other news, the elderly woman's arrhythmia has disappeared and her memory now works properly

Oh, and she has a certain "glow" about her.

[BRAH]

Don't Tase me Sonny!

[BRAH]

This Bitch should have been Tassed twice!

[Hyack]

I just wonder if any of these cops thought about trying to beat her lightning fast reflexes and just reach in and take the knife away??

[Brenda]

My mom turns 73 in a few weeks, and she would be able to seriously harm you. Not every 80 year old is actually old...