17-Year-Old Philly Fan : Othor Games

» Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:24 am

Maybe if the knuckleheaded kid hadn't been an idiot, he wouldn't have gotten tazed. How do you or anyone else know what the cop was thinking? I am not a cop, nor do I want to be one. I wish we didn't need them. But, with what they have to face and the world we live in, they can't be too careful. How did the police know he was just a stupid kid? There was a failed truck bomb in NYC like what three days earlier?

This is the bit that makes me sad. I've seen a couple of other people mention the failed car bombing, and you mention 'the world we live in'. Is there really a feeling in America of such paranoia about terrorism that something as innocent as a teenager running onto a sports pitch is viewed as a potential terrorist incident? Don't get me wrong, our own government in England is doing its best to overstate the so-called terrorist threat in a bid to get us to swallow draconian laws. But it's really surprising to me to see the majority of people here taking the view that electrocuting a pitch invader with a tazer gun is a reasonable course of action. Maybe it's just different cultural attitudes towards armed police.

» Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:44 pm

A bit of a overkill they should just of tackled him instead (he wasn't a threat at all just someone bored).

» Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:01 am

He had it coming. I am siding with the police 100% on this one.

» Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:04 pm

Police are right. His rights were forfeit the minute he ran onto the field. Break the law = Force.

America needs to grow its spine back.

» Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:41 pm

If the kid was some psycho intending harm you would all be praising the officer for using a taser. The kid could of had a knife or weapon on him and since the officer did not know whether he did or not, it was best not to take chances.

Anyone could have a knife or weapon. Anyone breaking the speed limit could plan on running down a couple people or crashing into other cars "for the lulz".

If this kid had been climbing a barricade and petted a tiger that bit his hand off people would be agreeing with his darwinism award.
Instead of tiger, it was a baseball game. He got tasered.
All those people who paid to see that game had their rights to a baseball game violated. No one wanted to see this kid get tasered. But they did. advlts and young children alike.
The baseball teams had their right to an uninterrupted game violated. Seems to me a lot of people like to go on about rights, until theirs are violated. Criminals are people too, until you are the victim.

In both situations, the person did not display any violence towards the baseball players or tiger. If he had gotten struck by a stray ball or something, sure I'd say he deserved it. But it wasn't an accident. They went after someone that wasted a little time.

» Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:21 am

So if someone jumped through the security checkpoint at an airport and started waving a towel around and teasing the security guards we should be like...."Lol, oh those silly kids"...*slap on the wrist.

» Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:13 pm

I guess in the end I am glad I don't get tasered. I want a delicious policeman to jump me. Especially if I am carrying a lethal towel, or am a master of ju-jitsu. I swear if I read much more of this thread I'm going to need to wear nappies. I dunno why we just don't get rid of the baseball and have taser gladiators? Seems like that's what the public wants? With a bit of deadly towel flicking and some ju-jitsu?

» Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:25 am

Time to lock this one.