Axe weilding nutter shot by police

g wiz and i thought canberra was safe!!

wrong tense – it is still dragging on

Yes it certainly is. That situation is completely vexed with mental health issues. Without them the shooting would most likely have not happened, and without them the injured person would be living a much more independent life – and not morbidly obese or plagued with complicating health problems.

cleo said :

S***! I used to live in one of those units, I heard they had gotten rough.

It must be all those group houses sharing joints and beers around. Or do you mean what the rest of us call rough?

“…an armed man who turned out to be mentally ill. The inquiries and court cases dragged on for years.”

wrong tense – it is still dragging on. The judge dealing with the matter still hasn’t handed down a decision, many months after the court hearings ended – see http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/crowley-family-holding-onto-hope/1926153.aspx – I’m not aware of any developments since then.

MHW

peterh said :

Tasers may not have slowed this bloke down. The member took the best option, and removed the threat to the general public and the member. not particularly nice to do, but the only option that presented at the time.

Especially as GDs don’t carry Tasers, so this option was not available anyways.

It sounds like the police did the best they could to stop him without resorting to shooting him, but had to anyway. (according to the media coverage anyway) For the sake of the officers involved, I hope the fellow doesn’t turn out to have mental health issues. I’m sure we all remember a high profile case from several years back of ACT police shooting an armed man who turned out to be mentally ill. The inquiries and court cases dragged on for years.

I’m calling shenanigans on this one. There’s no way Captain RAAF would have any mates.

I’m sure he does, they may just be busy with other issues at the moment.

Captain RAAF said :

Thoroughly Smashed said :

Captain RAAF said :

I have a mate in the plods here, ex RAAF ADG, he’d have no trouble nailing this knobber with a pistoli. It aint hard if you know your pistols.

Congratulations, I guess?

no, no , no, ADG’s are generally wankers but some of them, a small few, are good blokes who can shoot well, my mate being one of those.

I however, run rings around him with the pistol, got the trophy to prove it. If you have time, and believe me a whacko can make the 15m between you and him very quickly, you can hit just about anything. No-one in uniform would be impressed with it taking only one shot to bring this guy down, planting one between his eyes in the situation however, would have been more impressive.

great. if you are an ADG, or blue grunt, you are going to disarm a nutter with an axe by killing him? rubbish. I would rather incapacitate than kill.

Tasers may not have slowed this bloke down. The member took the best option, and removed the threat to the general public and the member. not particularly nice to do, but the only option that presented at the time.

nutter??? is this a psychiatric term? maybe he was a lost lumberjack, looking for women’s clothing.

A man wielding an axe in a domestic or neighbour dispute may not be mad, he may just be very very bad.

If the AFP had planted one between the eyes, they’d have been in trouble with their bosses, as all police are trained to shoot to the torso, the largest target.

If he was “mad”, then capsicum spray or foam or a tazer may not have stopped him, unfortunately. They’re better at stopping rational people than the irrational. I guess this is why the mentally ill are over-represented in police shootings, until we as a society can work out a better way of dealing with these incidents.

No-one leaves these situations happy – neither the man with the lead implant, nor the police or other witnesses.

MHW

Deref said :

There are few cases in which a gun is an appropriate response to a situation.

Being confronted with an axe-wielding nutter, however, is one.

+1 Big time agree

Really surprised there haven’t been more comments about this incident. I heard about the event on 104.7 morning news (which explained the large number of sirens we heard the previous evening!). Was this not well reported in mainstream media?