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i am good at jokes · Local time: Nov 15, 2007, 06:57 PM

Yeah, I just saw that on the news an hour ago. I think that's an awful thing, and the people responsible should be held accountable for it, as tasing him four times was excessive and they should have know it could potentially be fatal. That's why they are trained to use those instruments, to prevent this kind of thing.

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i am good at jokes · Local time: Nov 15, 2007, 09:15 PM

@pokey:

The guy had just arrived from Poland and apparently couldn't understand english. This occured after he'd been held at the airport for 10 hours. From what I've seen so far, his mother was supposed to have went to the airport to pick him up and had been told he never arrived and so she went back home. I can only imagine the shock she suffered when she learned the truth.

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i am good at jokes · Local time: Nov 16, 2007, 10:54 PM

It seems that the Polish government has, as anyone probably could have predicted, wasted no time in putting pressing on the canadian governement to put those responsible for the man's death "named and prosecuted". The debate over this incident is most certainly gonna be a long one in the media, IMO.

Here's a little linky: Taser officers should be prosecuted: Polish official

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

i am good at jokes · Local time: Nov 16, 2007, 11:12 PM

They said that they couldn't use it because there were too many people around and that it might be harmful to them. Also, there was a danger that it might go into the ventilation system. Now, wether that is as bad as a man dying, I'm not so sure, but I guess they didn't really predict it would happen (I sure hope not anyhow).

Also, pepper spray can be fatal if it used excessively, just as a taser can be.

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i am good at jokes · Local time: Nov 17, 2007, 06:44 PM

I think there is a certain difference between blaming the police for crimes commited by others as in your example and saying that the officers should be better trained to use their equipment in the proper way. It isn't the fact that they used the taser that is reprochable, it is the fact that they didn't know that using it in the way they did was going to kill him. Any weapon has the potential to be fatal or not, depending on the proper training being given to the person who wields it.

I was speaking idiomatically.