Officers use taser to free tangled deer.
@lloydanthony111 (4698)
United States
January 17, 2007 7:28pm CST
Confronted with a deer whose antlers were tangled in a rope swing at a rural home, two officers saw no good choices. They weren't about to try to free the animal themselves. It weighed several hundred pounds and was thrashing wildly.
They thought they were going to have to kill it out of compassion or it was going to die a slow, agonizing death.
Then Deputy Jeff Miller thought of the stun gun, commonly called a Taser, used to immobilize out-of-control prisoners or suspects.
They Zapped the deer and it stopped moving. The officers untangled the rope and freed the buck.
Not long after, the deer took off running.
My question to you is this.
If these Tasers are powerful enough to knock out a full grown buck, do you think it's humane to use them on people?
Here in the United States we have many cases of people dying after being Zapped.
What do you think?
Lloyd
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2 responses
@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
22 Apr 07
I feel that Tasers should not be allowed period. Because if they Zap someone and they die, even if it is a Hardened Criminal who just committed Murder, that should be considered Murder, and they should be held accountable for it. But unfortunately they contine to use them and get away with it, and no consequences are ever really considered and done about it.
@lloydanthony111 (4698)
• United States
22 Apr 07
The use of tasers really seem inhumane. My probelem with it is that they don't know how each individual will respond to it.
With all the technology available, I believe they can find another way of subdoing a person withouth the use of a taser.
Lloyd
@Jemina (5770)
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2 Feb 07
Well, if tasers can kill people then definitely it's inhumane to use it. However, situational ethics comes in here, I suppose, like in a hostage case.
@lloydanthony111 (4698)
• United States
3 Feb 07
He Jemina. To be honest with you, I never liked the use of the taser. I remember how they used it on Rodney King in Los Angeles.
It was the precursor to the riots that followed the aquital of the officers who used it on him.
Lloyd
