https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/87-year-old-woman-tasered-by-police-while-cutting-dandelions-family-says/812963216



87 y/o woman, caller said she was cutting vegetation and couldn't get around very well, not a thhreat...Cops roll up, demand she drop her kitchen knife that she was using to cut dandelions, she doesn't speak english 'didn't comply' and they tased her....

But hey, they went home at the end of the night, right?

Where/how do you find this shit? I may be bored, but not that bored.

I don't go looking for it.

In this case, I was looking at another news story and this was in the 'breaking news/trending' down at the bottom of the page...

Bitch using a kitchen knife to cut dandelions? I'd have tazed her thrice.
Damn, that shit pisses me off. With a kitchen knife?
Turn the juice UP.

Again, another misleading article.

Actual article should be, woman with large knife outside boys and girls club confronted by cops, refused to drop the knife, and was tased. Claims she was 'cutting dandelions.'

Facts:
Police got a call about a lady with a knife outside a kids club, and responded. HTF would they have known this woman's intentions was to "cut dandelions?" When have you EVER seen someone cutting dandelions with a large knife, and especially bad idea to be doing it outside a kids club given the school massacres often in the news?!

Apparently, when the cops rolled up, she refused to put down the knife. Me? That knife would be in the dirt and my hands up.

Nah, this is a case of a dumb and non-compliant person with zero situational awareness getting a few volts of juice to wake her up to reality.

I remember when right after a few Army base shootings, some moron on base decided it was a good idea to go marching around in full combat loadouts with (a real or fake, I don't recall) AR15. The MPs weren't too pleased with him, base was on high alert for a terrorist attack, etc.

There's just some requirement in life to apply some common sense.

you need a new hobby

What's wrong with posting inane bullshit on a state pro-2A forum?

nothing but jesus christ lets change up the subject more often

She was 87, probably HOH, and English was not her first language. And yah, kitchen knives are a thing in gardening, even if you have better tools at hand. I use a sod knife all the time to pry out the bastard dandelions, but I sometimes use an old butter knife to take out moss in sidewalk cracks.

They're lucky she survived. The question is, who was the (swear word) who called the police on an old woman cleaning up a public space?

And I agree that TW needs a new hobby.

Interesting.

I have had a large garden for 10+ years, met others who do the same, yet this is the first I have ever heard of anyone using a kitchen knife to garden.

Her age is largely irrelevant. Old people can still be murderers.

It's not gardening when you're across the street on someone else's property without permission, and when that location is a kids club. Oh, and there's no garden.

You don't take any open weapons over to a kids club or a school.

When cops confront you, if you can see or hear them at all and you are holding any weapon, put it down. That's like day 1 common sense class.

I have no sympathy for someone who lives here and can't speak the language. Solution is to have learned the language. Or did she just arrive at 87 years old to the world and planet earth?
If I'm anywhere in any location and cannot speak the lingo, and cops roll up, they have my FULL attention, my hand are empty, and up, and I make no threatening moves. Pretty basic stuff, even for someone who lived thru WWII, Korea, Vietnam, all the social and global unrest, and the GWOT, and school shootings and stabbings for her entire life. Has she been in a box?

Alright boys and girls, turn em in or we send the shock troopers after ya.

I was trying to be the funny guy. Failed again.
At least I amuse myself.

This is one of those situations that seems to me to be misrepresented for cause.


So far I bet the police are expecting to be making a welfare check.


But that will certainly have a police officer -ready- for danger. 87 year olds can swing and poke knives sufficiently to injure or kill.


Good Tase.


I'll bet dollars against donuts that she'll drop the knife the next time.

I found it funny.....