Well, it appears some Canucks believe the baton is more dangerous than THE TASER.
The Canadian Police Research Centre report examines 562 cases where Calgary police used Tasers, pepper spray, batons, weapon-free control techniques and vascular neck restraints — “choke holds” — on people resisting arrest.
The 14-page study found that Tasers “scored high” in safety for both suspects and officers in Calgary, a city of over 1 million. Though it was used in nearly half of all cases involving suspects resisting arrest, only 1% ended up hospitalized, and 87% sustained either minor injuries or no injuries at all, according to the report.
Batons, on the other hand — used in only 6% of force-involved arrests — caused the greatest rate of serious injury. Fewer than 39% of subjects were uninjured. More than 3% were hospitalized, and nearly 26% required outpatient treatment.
“The commonly held belief . . .” that Tasers carry “a significant risk of injury or death . . . is not supported by the data,” said the report, researched by Dr. Christine Hall, an epidemiologist based in Victoria and Calgary use-of-force expert Staff Sgt. Chris Butler. The report says the stun guns are “less injurious than either the baton or empty-hand physical control.”
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And what is even better is that the assailant was a sheep shearer.
“Miss Mårtensson heard a noise and saw the curtain billowing. She saw a male emerge,” said prosecutor Janine Bates to the Perth Sheriff Court.
The male turned out to be a very intoxicated and belligerent Benjamin Davis, a sheep shearer from Australia working temporarily in Scotland.
Frightened, Mårtensson woke up her boyfriend as Davis fumbled about, cursing as he tried to let himself out through the couple’s bedroom door.
“She heard the man shouting. Every second word was ‘fuck’. He was not making any sense. She described him as looking mad and aggressive,” Bates continued.
The shaken Swedish lass, who was naked at the time, was able to grab some clothes from a nearby chair, but her attempts to sweet talk her assailant down from his agitated state were unsuccessful.
Awakened by the commotion, her boyfriend Vereaeus then sat up in bed but was promptly commanded to sit down by the angry sheep shearer.
“Davis stood over him and told him not to get out of bed,” explained the prosecutor
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Courtesy of these Iowans.
Donroy Merrival was charged Tuesday with willful injury stemming from the July 24 fight. He also faced charges in an unrelated incident a couple of days later.
Authorities said he was drinking with another man when they started arguing and the other man hit him with a shovel. They say Merrival responded by biting off the man’s nose and part of his lip.
“He’s a heavy drinker and sometimes when he drinks he changes and gets real nasty,” the injured man, Matthew Osing, told KCRG-TV.
He acknowledged hitting Merrival with a shovel, saying, “He was crouched down ready to pounce on me and he was scaring me. … He jumped up and grabbed me by my face and grabbed my nose and bit it off.”
The nose was not recovered but police say Merrival didn’t think he swallowed it.
“I don’t know if he swallowed it or if my dogs might have eaten it, I don’t know,” Osing said.
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This guy worked in their front office until today. And he spills the beans.
–Corey Dillon is about the most miserable piece of shit you would ever want to encounter. You should see the looks and gestures he would give fans when we went on the road. Sometimes an athlete’s reputation is blown up by the media but that wasn’t the case with Dillon. There is no doubt in my mind that he will end up in jail at some point. You don’t have to be a good guy to be a star in the NFL and no one is a better example of that than Dillon.
–Randy Moss is the best player I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. The guy is a freak and it was an honor to watch him close up the past two years. I don’t know what Moss was like in Minnesota and Oakland because I didn’t cover him then. However, he’s been nothing but a class act since coming to the Patriots. He’s actually one of the nicest guys I’ve come across. He’s extremely popular in the locker room and even jokes around and bullshits with practice squad players. Moss was nothing like I thought he would be when he came to New England.
–Hold on for this one: I heard from someone who is close to the case that there is a sex tape of Bill Belichick banging the married woman he had an affair with. I shit you not. The husband who is suing that woman for being unfaithful to him has a tape of his wife and Belichick screwing while the two of them were still married. Belichick is a very powerful man so I imagine he’s doing everything in his power to squash this from getting out but it could only be a matter of time. A part of me doesn’t want to see it but another part of me can’t help but be intrigued.
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Be prepared for humorless twits to oppose your name if it is awesome.
You see, two British Olympic sailing guys love naming their boats after songs they like. Too bad this time around, their song choice conflicted with the stupidity of the Olympics people. I guess the song “Big T*ts” by The Kooks was a bit much.
Stevie said: “We’ve always named our boats after songs and Jackie Big T**s is one by The Kooks we liked. We’ve also had a boat called Britney and another named Sally Cinnamon.
“It’s not the same if your boat just has a number, is it?”
They might have won that battle but with Olympic bigwigs sticking their oar in, Stevie and Ben have no choice but to give up their Big T**s. They will now compete under the banner Little Miss Pipedream, after THE WOMBATS’ track.
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