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I'm sorry, but if you're a cop and you need a taser to handle an unarmed 10 yr old girl, you're a fucking sissy. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
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It isn't whether or not you are a cop -- it's whether it matters that the 10 year old child does or does not get hurt in the process. Trying to constrain a kicking, screaming ten year old is not as easy as it sounds. When I was about that age, I objected to getting a shot -- it took 4 male orderlies to hold me down long enough for the shot to get administered. My daughter, at nine, has a blue belt in karate and a wicked round-house kick -- woe to the fool who tries to move that child without her consent.
- Mickey Schafer
But cops have training specifically in how to restrain people without hurting them (much). It sounds from the article like there was more than one cop there, as well. I mean, come on, seriously. Multiple cops, and they can't restrain or figure out a way to deal with a ten year old girl other than hitting her with a taser? I see your point, but if it were me in that situation, I'd call...
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- Josh Ellis
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Agreed, police are trained to use force -- and that may have been the point. Children do not respond to physical threat like adults b/c most don't have enough experience being hurt to have learned to be afraid. And in the article, didn't it say the _mother_ requested the officer use the taser? Weird situation.
- Mickey Schafer
That's actually a really good point. Children also don't believe adults would hurt them, which is probably how kids get abducted. I didn't realize the mother requested the taser. That's even worse. I suppose, as the comics writer Mike Carey says, pain is the great teacher. jze Zenarchery: http://www.zenarchery.com Twitter: jzellis AIM: jzellis69
- Josh Ellis
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When I was six years old I stood in a room filled with the corpses hundreds of people who burned to death, stacked like cordwood.
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I'm guessing Pompei.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Yup! jze Zenarchery: http://www.zenarchery.com Twitter: jzellis AIM: jzellis69
- Josh Ellis
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I win! Yay!
- Michael R. Bernstein
Umm, what did I win, anyway?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Nothing. :-) jze Zenarchery: http://www.zenarchery.com Twitter: jzellis AIM: jzellis69
- Josh Ellis
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Fuck You, Penguin - http://fuckyoupenguin.blogspot.com/
Makes me giggle
- Josh Ellis
MAKE: Blog: Stirling engine car - http://blog.makezine.com/archive...
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I KNEW IT!!! I FUCKING KNEW IT!!! I totally knew Kamen had to be working on a Stirling-driven car. It's the only thing that made sense.
- Josh Ellis
yesyesnono : Oli's home stay as long as you want - http://yesyesnono.co.uk/
Nice processing stuff.
- Josh Ellis
I Want To Be... A Magazine Founder & Editor! - iCiNG - galadarling.com - http://galadarling.com/article...
Interview with the Coilhouse gals. Look for a couple of pieces from me in Coilhouse Issue 2
- Josh Ellis
Unclutterer » Archive » StairCase - http://unclutterer.com/2008...
Not that I need a stepladder to reach books, most of the time
- Josh Ellis
The Lewes Pound - http://thelewespound.org/
The town of Lewes, East Sussex, England has created their own local currency, accepted by many local businesses...but not local chains. The idea is to promote local businesses and to keep people thinking about things like the lowered carbon footprint of buying locally produced goods. Plus, it's a really lovely banknote.
- Josh Ellis
Writer David Foster Wallace found dead - Los Angeles Times - http://www.latimes.com/news...
That's a shame. I never read much of his stuff, but I liked his famous McCain piece for Rolling Stone back in 2000.
- Josh Ellis
Steve Rose talks to visionary architect Paolo Soleri | Art and design | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/artandd...
I really ought to go down to Arcosanti one of these days.
- Josh Ellis
Please Buy My Record: The Futility Of Flogging Music - Music Think Tank - Music Think Tank - http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog...
This is one of the best pieces I've ever read on the modern musician's dilemma. Seriously, if you care about the whole debate about music right now, you need to read this.
- Josh Ellis
Garret van Swearingen - http://freepages.genealogy.roo...
An ancestor of mine whose portrait has survived. (He hella looks like me.) Interesting to know this guy's DNA is somewhere in my genetic makeup.
- Josh Ellis
Exclusive Excerpt: Stephen Davis’s ‘Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N’ Roses’ -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/daily...
Hee hee hee. This is actually pretty awesome, and I'm not a G'n'R fan.
- Josh Ellis
The Quietus | Features | Rapper Immortal Technique Swaps The Mean Streats Of Harlem For Afghanistan - http://www.thequietus.com/article...
Nice! Tech was one of the artists I pursued for Mperia back in the day. One of the most brilliant MCs out there
- Josh Ellis
gkaindl.com → software → touché - http://gkaindl.com/softwar...
Multitouch framework for Mac. W00t!
- Josh Ellis
What Is the Future of Suburbia? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog - http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008...
Break it down, brothers, break it down.
- Josh Ellis
Red State Soundsystem: Scatterlings + Refugees Digital Single - http://www.redstatesoundsystem.com
My new single. Download. Enjoy. Maybe donate.
- Josh Ellis
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