So my Dad got Tazered!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yesterday, I went to my parents house to celebrate the 4th due to some who had to work. There were quite a few people there including many kids. As things were breaking up, my brother and I broke off and headed to Biloxi to hit up the Hard Rock Casino. I knocked down a little Supra cash through the evening.

My teenage daughter took the younger kids home, and my wife stayed with my sister to go shop for a dog. That's when my sister told my wife the story. I get the news 3rd hand, so I haven't talked to my Dad about it yet.

Here's the story.........

To set it up....My Dad is 67 years old, has Diabetes and prostate problems, and is a member of a masonic lodge about 7-8 houses down the street from the house. He had gone out shopping on the 3rd, and was heading home, when the urge to piss got kind of important. It was so bad the closer he got to home, that he whipped into the lodge to use their bathroom, cause he didn't think he could make it that much further. Well, a cop pulled in behind him, saying that he had to slam on brakes to keep from hitting him when he turned. My Dad said he didn't hear any skid sounds. He told his story to the cop, and the cop said sit here while I run your liscence. 15 minutes went by, and he got out of his car and told the cop he was just going to have to go in to their bathroom, but the cop told him to go sit back in his car. (I think a small part got left out of the story here) He must have been persistent and didn't go back to the car, and the next thing he knew he was being tazzed!!!!!!!! He got hit twice for having to take a piss! Somehow even that didn't make him piss himself. Before it was over there were 2 police cars a fire truck and an ambulance at the lodge. The cops supervisor was on scene as well. It's said that he had a very stern taking with the young PUNK ASS cop. They sent him on home with the Tazer hooks still in him.

My Dad is a very clean cut man, with no prior brushes with the law.

Is this not one of the biggest Bullshit Police brutality stories you have ever heard?
 

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did he happen to say "dont tase me bro?"
ya, thats a load of bs. I know you can get in trouble for urinating in public but can you get in trouble if you piss your pants in public?
I would have just pissed myself right then and there and said hey thanks now look what you made me do. I bet the cop would have looked like an idiot to the other cops that showed up.
 

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HommerSimpson;1070497 said:
And people wonder why some HATE COPS.......
Hope he files charges against the office...

btw my dad was head honcho at the masonic lodge here in daytona..

they have ALOT OF POWER tell him to let his lodge know the whole story.. and i bet that cop would be history...or severly repremanded
 

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HommerSimpson;1070497 said:
And people wonder why some HATE COPS.......
Hope he files charges against the office...

I haven't talked to him yet myself. I definitely think he should file some sort of charges. My wife tells me my Mom doesn't want him to become a marked man, and wants to sweep it under the rug. I think the way the supervisor talked to the cop should help his case a bit. But, it will be his word against the cops in court. Guess who the judge trusts. I'm gonna definitely advise him to seek a lawyer.
 

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Unbelievable Scott. Definatly cop was in the wrong if somesays they gotta go there is no way a cop should taser you for going to take care of business especially if you explained that you gotta go.
 

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you know.....i dont understand why the cop just couldnt say....fine ill escort you to the piss pot and ill have to watch to make sure you dont flush anything....and ill wait till your done to write a ticket....it would have been that simple but damn let a man piss will ya!
 

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Im going to play devils advocate for second here. Put yourself in the cops place for a second. Say you are driving down the street and a car suddenly stops and turns away from you. You dont know, maybe the guy saw you behind him and paniced. Maybe he is hiding something. So you pull him over and proceed to check him out. The middle aged guy starts getting agitated and wont comply with your lawful commands to return to your vehicle. Maybe he is raising his voice and acting out a little and now hes refusing to obey you. Maybe he turns to walk away from you and enter a building that would give him an opportunity to discard something he is hiding, maybe its a gun.

Law enforcement officials face life and death decisions every day while doing their job. Mistakes can cost them their lives. They DONT KNOW who you are. They have no idea you are a law abiding mid 60's grandfather that just needs to take a piss. For all they know you are a gun toting maniac that just came from a triple homicide and still have the bloody knife stuffed in your pants. If he lets you go without checking you out and you kill more people inside the lodge, then what?

Its a terrible shame your dad got tasered, but be glad he didnt get shot. A young man was shot to death in Portland a couple days ago because he was confused and mentally ill and entered someone elses house. When confronted he was either too confused or unable to control himself. He put the lone responding officer in fear for his life and was shot and killed.


Yeah I think it sucks, its one of those stories you hear that makes you realize just how fucked up things are. Im sure it was a traumatic experience. Maybe when you hear the story from your dad there will be more information that either makes it make more sense why, or makes you more outraged at the treatment, I dont know. But either way, I hope your dad is ok.
 

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You can always have a jury of your peers.. The judge's decision wont matter.. it will be a jury's verdict.. and the cops cant harass you after, because you can just keep nailing their ass..




I know what you're talking about Weezl, and i agree... but look at that dick of a cop appropriately named COX in Corvallis.. He harassed innocent people trying to bust them for DUII... and I bet if he had the opportunity himself, he would have tazed them too
 

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theWeezL;1070628 said:
Im going to play devils advocate for second here. Put yourself in the cops place for a second. Say you are driving down the street and a car suddenly stops and turns away from you. You dont know, maybe the guy saw you behind him and paniced. Maybe he is hiding something. So you pull him over and proceed to check him out. The middle aged guy starts getting agitated and wont comply with your lawful commands to return to your vehicle. Maybe he is raising his voice and acting out a little and now hes refusing to obey you. Maybe he turns to walk away from you and enter a building that would give him an opportunity to discard something he is hiding, maybe its a gun.

Law enforcement officials face life and death decisions every day while doing their job. Mistakes can cost them their lives. They DONT KNOW who you are. They have no idea you are a law abiding mid 60's grandfather that just needs to take a piss. For all they know you are a gun toting maniac that just came from a triple homicide and still have the bloody knife stuffed in your pants. If he lets you go without checking you out and you kill more people inside the lodge, then what?

Its a terrible shame your dad got tasered, but be glad he didnt get shot. A young man was shot to death in Portland a couple days ago because he was confused and mentally ill and entered someone elses house. When confronted he was either too confused or unable to control himself. He put the lone responding officer in fear for his life and was shot and killed.


Yeah I think it sucks, its one of those stories you hear that makes you realize just how fucked up things are. Im sure it was a traumatic experience. Maybe when you hear the story from your dad there will be more information that either makes it make more sense why, or makes you more outraged at the treatment, I dont know. But either way, I hope your dad is ok.

Good valid points but that is where jugdement comes in.
 

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savannahashlee;1070637 said:
I know what you're talking about Weezl, and i agree... but look at that dick of a cop appropriately named COX in Corvallis.. He harassed innocent people trying to bust them for DUII... and I bet if he had the opportunity himself, he would have tazed them too

Oh I know, dont get me wrong, crooked cops and even the "gung ho" ones piss me off. I will be the first to say that in general I dont like dealing with cops. I would know too, I was a fugitive from justice for over 20 years and learned how to avoid contact with them. To this day, even though Im now totally legal (well ok, mostly legal) my adrenaline starts flowing just seeing one.

Im only playing the devils advocate so that Scott might see there are two sides to every story, and MAYBE that will help the incident make more sense and not feel like such an injustice.
 

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Similar thing happened to my uncle, except he's not all there. Too much drug use in college fried his brain... He apparently was off his meds and disobeyed a police officer (walked away) and got tazered. The really sad thing is he used to write letters to the whole family (he has 8 brothers and sisters, and up until recently both parents were still living. Whole mess of nieces and nephews, all of which he wrote to) but the tazer destroyed his fine motor controls and now his handwriting is completely illegible. He still trys, though. :(

I can see the police officer's side of things on this, but not having been there I can't comment on his decision, and I don't really think any of us can either. Obviously, you know your dad wasn't going to do anything wrong, but the officer didn't.
 

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There is one detail I left out from what I was told. I said that the supervisor got all over the officer for the incident. After that, He also made him take my father away from all other law enforcement personnel and apologize to him. There was NO Citation Given !!!!

I still haven't talked to him about it today, as I have been in front of my kids or working on my car today.

I do agree with all that has been said here. You couldn't pay me enough to be a cop these days. I feel like after my dad explained the situation, and told the cop he LIVED litterally houses away, the cop decided to just plain be an ASS from that point on. He could have very quickly called dispatch, and said I have Mr XX here with AL DL 1234567, do you show anything on him? That's a negative officer.....end of story, now go take a piss sir. He could have escorted him from ther to the bathroom if he was human. He probably would have left him alone about the time my dad pulled out the key to the building.

And here's another point I thought of as I typed. He should not have been following so closely that he had to slam on brakes!
 

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That is a good point, lol

If your dad does decide to persue legal action I bet there is a dash cam available that could be brought into evidence.
 

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I think i would have an extremely hard time controlling my self if that were to happen to my father.

in fact, i would be perfectly happy sitting in jail for the rest of my life; i would kill anyone who would lay a finger on my father.

This shit has to stop in this country.
 

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The more I think about it, the more it pisses me off. There questions I have in my head, that apparently have no sensible answer.

1. If no citation was even written for anything, what the hell did he pull him over and hassle him for??????

2. If there truly was an ambulance and fire truck dispatched to the scene, why did he come home with the hooks still in him??????

3. Couldn't those be introduced in court as evidence in a brutality suit?

4. Who was this piece of shit cop?

5. Is he possibly a target in this Northrup Grumman town already, as he is a former Boeing employee?

He is out of town today, so I have been unable to get anymore info from the source. I don't even know how long ago this happened. Surely it was within the last few days, but that's all I know.