Taser Sets Man Afire
From the “more than you bargained for” department comes a story about Dennis Crouch, a depressed man that gets drunk, grabs a kitchen knife, stabs himself in the stomach and chest and then refuses police instructions to drop the knife. Officer Betsy Cassidy figured a little jolt would get the knife out of his hands:
“Taser! Taser!” Cassidy shouted as she sent a two-pronged wire, packing 50,000 volts, at Crouch’s chest. What happened next stunned everyone.A Taser probe pierced the pocket of his khaki shirt — and ignited the butane lighter inside. Cassidy’s pocket exploded in flames.
“The subject,” recounted Sgt. Al Tolley in a subsequent report, “immediately dropped the knife.”
Cops rolled Dennis on the ground to put out the flames and took him to the hospital.
If the tasers are not taken away from people who have no common sense then we are all doomed. These goofballs are tasing any one who ask for the time of day.
Help outlaw tasers!! email, call people, get these things off the market. The stories get worse everyday.
Oh Yea, The United States Government are not allowed to use these tasers on TERRORIST and cops are shooting our kids, pregnant women, mentally retarded, mentally upset, old people, I have heard stories of as high as 79 years old!, They are trained but it is still the super ego of “I carry a badge and you are a lowlife” that causes the problems. Multiple lawsuits, and big ones will adjust their attitude.
Jimmy Hunsucker