2 November 2006

Taser used in West Belconnen

2 November 2006 | By johnboy

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.

CouldExpire10:28 am 06 Nov 06

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?

CouldExpire10:05 am 06 Nov 06

“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…

aich jay5:04 pm 03 Nov 06

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.)

snahon4:20 pm 03 Nov 06

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.

S4anta2:00 pm 03 Nov 06

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

evee12:58 pm 03 Nov 06

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’.

snahon12:57 pm 03 Nov 06

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.