2 November 2006

Taser used in West Belconnen

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JJJ of all things is reporting that a taser was used on blueing drunks in West Belconnen (where else?) over the weekend.

Anyone know anything more?

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TrapperKeeper9:42 am 10 Nov 06

I too thought the Taser was for people with weapons. I know of one time it was used(twice)because they had trouble getting someone into the back of the paddywagon.

thankfully for me I wasnt born there!.. LOL

Absent Diane10:10 am 06 Nov 06

aren’t all queanbeyan chicks born with excessive hair on the backs.. and donkey teeth?

“Booner heartland in West Belco or Tuggers? F$cking amateurs – come and visit Queanbeyan.”

Just in response to VYBerlinaV8’s comment… how god damn true! Though Queanbeyan does of course sport some intellectual, well dressed and normal people if you look hard enough…

Every time I go to the Belconnen mall I wish I had a taser.

Don;t polic still carry clubs/nightsticks? Surely a swift whack to the back of the legs with that would stop the brawling…?

I though the idea of tasers was not to use them on brawling drunken bogan idiots, but on machete/knife/katan-wielding nut-jubs who they’d otherwise have to shoot – the taser offer an option to immobilise someone who they can’t actually wlak up to and tackle but, because it’s not a firearm, to get away with not killing them. If the cops can’t break up a bar fight without a projectile weapon they shouldn’t be on the beat. (If there were 10 odd brawlers to the 2 cops it’d be different, I guess.)

Nothing like a good ol’ stroll through qbn on pension day to see a broad represenation of the members of the human sub-species homo-boganus.

high five evee, The DaVinci Code is bringing down the understanding of fiction and non-fiction alike, across the globe.

I remember once doing a self defence course in Brisbane and the instructor trying to seel us some kind of taser ‘under the table’ so to speak. Imagine if you used one illegaly against an attacker and then had to face court because of it?

I think bogans ARE australia, and you have got dodgy areas everywhere. But the aspirational ones…the ‘Cubs’…(Cashed up Bogans) are the worst. I tolerate them due to circumstance, but I vow never to own a four wheel drive, a big screen tv, or read the da vinci code for as long as I live.

Lets just rename Australia as ‘Struggle Street’.

FC – I still stand by my comments – if they weren’t fighting the cops wouldn’t have felt the need to use the taser.

Woody Mann-Caruso9:58 am 03 Nov 06

I thought they were only supposed to use tasers in situations where they would otherwise use a firearm, eg against an armed assailant. Guess we’ll find out all the circumstances later; then again, if this is the 9th time somebody’s been zapped, maybe not.

Queanbo definetly beats any place in canberra for booners.

Booner heartland in West Belco or Tuggers? F$cking amateurs – come and visit Queanbeyan.

“Troyanne, get ‘ere ya little bastard!”…

Classic.

As for Booner heartland, that is easy Tuggeranong.

Shaniece… noice!

I know its become really bad in this area. But where to move, chances are they are everywhere!! My daughter has a friend at school and her name is Shaniece…its like a combination of Shane and Denise, now thats bogan. Next someone will call their kid Troyanne

Yet how many people die because they have fallen over outside a pub in a harmless brawl. I am betting its more than people who have died from being tasered.

I hope not. They are putting an aldi at my local.
There is enough booners already!!

I think you’ll find that Aldi put their store for that reason
after all, West Belco remains the Booner heartland

Absent Diane1:54 pm 02 Nov 06

you could be onto something there andy… aldi attracts mega bogans.

perhaps a few of the girls had to punch on at the eighteenth of royal belco to work out who got the last cucumber sandwich (ladies day is wednesday i hear).

evee, there’s alot of dodgy crap goin on at kippax at the moment.
ever since they put that aldi there 😛
(nah thats probably not the reason, i’m just spinnin crap, but it has been dodgy recently)

of course, it could also have been fraser tavern. or kippax, or mobys.
All are reputable places…

woulda been outside west belconnen i think. no noise outside magpies over the weekend.

oh wait. I wasn’t home. whoops. Still, more likely to be west belconnen.

I’m starting to get a sneaky suspicion I may know who heavs is.
Maybe.

Why would they use the tazer on a pissed dickhead? I though capsicum would have stopped them in their tracks.

Correct me if I’m wrong, any of you coppers out there – but I thought they reserved the tazer for the odd psychotic meth-freak who was pretty much immune to pain.

I witnessed something this morning outside of Kippax Fair. Some bogan pretending to talk on a public phone but just saying one word very loudly every now and again…”FUCK!! FUCK!!!” Now there was someone in depserate need of a taser.

Funnily enough, not many people seemed upset or concerned. This behaviour has become the norm it seems.

So was it at the Leagues Club or that classy joint known as Magpies?

Perhaps they weren’t drunk at all and were actually overcome with violent emotions after having viewed the fan fence installation?

Absent Diane12:38 pm 02 Nov 06

pissed dickheads brawling are hardly violent crims. just young testosterone filled wankers. If they accidentally die because of being tazerised thats a big liability for the cops.. killing someone with a weapon is one thing.. but killing people accidentally for brawling… yeah there is a whole bunch of issues there.

Well it is a concern , because if the police are using the tasers to temporarily immobilise someone not to kill them and then ppl die from it then it kinda defeats the point of the taser gun. They could use their guns if they wanted to kill.
The guy in the US was only 17yrs old too.

not a concern at all really – if they weren’t fighting they wouldn’t have been tasered.

Absent Diane12:23 pm 02 Nov 06

I agree but wasn’t there that case in the US yesterday where some weirdo died as result of being tazerised. which is obviously a concern.

I think its good that they are using them. To be fair I don’t really know the full effects of them, but why should the cops have to get in the middle of a brawl and get injured.
Stiff shit to those who got tased -easy lesson – don’t fight

If you’re pissed and bluing and don’t stop and take it elsewhere when the cops show up you are getting what you deserve. Farks sake, why should the cops put up with that sort of crap? Behave in a socially responsible way and it won’t happen to you.

heard a bit on the radio, the police spokeswoman was unable to confirm anything more detailled than that day follows night, because it is an ONGOING matter, but it was divulged that it is the 15th use of a taser in the ACT, and only 9 such uses have involved someone being tasered. And someone got arrested. Not necessarily the same person that was tasered. Also unalbe to be divulged was their age, sex, or any other details.
I can add to this that I cannot divulge what radio station I was listening to on account of having an ONGOING problem with my memory

-Might help explain Kerces’ photo below.

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