To tase or not to tase sports fans
If you haven’t heard yet about the 17-year old Phillies baseball fan who decided to take a quick jog on the field during last night’s Phillies vs. Cardinals baseball game, then I’m sure you will. Here is a quick YouTube video of the event.
It is difficult to see from the video clearly, but a police officer used a taser to subdue the young troublemaker and bring the incident to a pretty quick close. (Tasers work pretty well don’t they?) Frankly I’m going to miss the old days of watching all the out of shape stadium security and police officers huffing and puffing there way around the field trying to catch these guys. It makes for good entertainment.
The issue that I’m sure all the major news networks are going to jump on in the coming days though will be whether or not that policeman should used unnecessary force in this case. What do you think?
But whatever your opinion is on the matter. The next guy (or girl) wanting to disrupt a major sporting event in this manner will certainly think twice about it.
We heard about this early May. We saw on the news that this kid wouldn’t stop, that he was told to stop and all. Our news stations were all on it, and they were remarking like “let the kid run”, “he shouldn’t have been tased”.
We both think that the policeman was right in tasing this
troublemaker, and hope he learns from this.Tasers do work well, sometimes too well! ZAP, ZING, Zow! Holy cow Batman! Where’s the parental control? Guess they weren’t around, but there are a lot of juveniles who just don’t think. Hey, just like when we were young! LOL, but we had “belts” chasing after us if we pulled that caper…….