Witnesses say a sheriff's deputy in Washington State is distraught after she shot a man in a tree.Good Lord, how stupid and irresponsible can someone be?
The deputy apparently meant to fire a Taser but grabbed the wrong weapon.
The Taser, manufactured by Taser International of Scottsdale, is similar in shape to the compact .40-caliber gun the deputy carried.
I noticed many news outlets were carrying this story and they all had one glaring common deficiency, explained by our good friends at the WaPo:
The deputy, a five-year veteran of the force whose name was not released...[More from "The Only Ones" files...]
2 comments:
He must have been trained by Tackleberry.
It looks like she did the right thing by accident. Would it really have been better to send a man up in a tree into convulsions from a massive electric shock?
The guy said "Oh, that hurts" and then climbed down himself. Maybe, in future incidents of this type, they should have BB guns on hand.
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