How to use a Taser on a two year old...

[KD5NRH]

http://www.officer.com/online/article.j ... 1&id=40994

Interesting bit of creative thinking.

[MoJo]

Good thinking on the part of the officer.

[shaggydog]

"I have four kids and I know that a 2-year-old loose in the car is as good as a trunk monkey if you can just figure out how to motivate him to do what you want,"

I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there.

[DoubleJ]

"I have four kids and I know that a 2-year-old loose in the car is as good as a trunk monkey if you can just figure out how to motivate him to do what you want,"

I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there.

The fact that he said "trunk monkey" is hilarious. I cracked smooth up over that'n.

[lunchbox]

[KBCraig]

Meanwhile, closer to home, how not to taser a a 17 year old in post-seizure fugue:

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/d ... ae5bb.html

Also, "how not to lie in official police and paramedic reports", at least not and hope to get away with it.

[WarHawk-AVG]

Meanwhile, closer to home, how not to taser a a 17 year old in post-seizure fugue:

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/d ... ae5bb.html

Also, "how not to lie in official police and paramedic reports", at least not and hope to get away with it.

HMM...mixed emotions on that

Seizure or not..you attack a emergency worker its game on...sorry

[KBCraig]

Seizure or not..you attack a emergency worker its game on...sorry

"Attack" requires a state of mind. His state of mind at the time, apparently, was that he was being attacked by the responders who were attempting to restrain him.

I know a bunch of paramedics, EMTs, and nurses, and the vast majority of them have been struck by someone flailing about. None would consider an octogenarian Alzheimer's patient to be "attacking" them, and call for the Taser in response.

[lunchbox]

did he yell dont taze me bro

[.40calMedic]

Sounds to me like nobody (PD/FIRE/EMS) was informed that Jr. has seizures...all they see is a kid wigging out...and yeah, you hit an emergency worker, its on like Donkey Kong. Had they known he was seizing, they probably would've waited to see if the postictal symptoms subsided or restrained him with soft restraints and hit him with some valium. not sure if the source has all the info in this case...

[KD5NRH]

Sounds to me like nobody (PD/FIRE/EMS) was informed that Jr. has seizures...all they see is a kid wigging out...

...and his brother yelling "he's having a seizure." Doesn't that figure into your diagnosis at all?

[lunchbox]

Sounds to me like nobody (PD/FIRE/EMS) was informed that Jr. has seizures...all they see is a kid wigging out...

...and his brother yelling "he's having a seizure." Doesn't that figure into your diagnosis at all?

i would have ignored the brother too
hes the last thing im conserned about in that situation

[DoubleJ]

yeah, cause family are never a good source of Patient info...

[lunchbox]

its not that at all its like your being shot at by a someone and the family is screaming at you hes a paranoid schizophrenic
thats not what is forfront in your mind in that moment
you have to put yourself inn their shoes

[bryang]

Forgive me for interrupting, but...how'bout that "trunk monkey!"

"I have four kids and I know that a 2-year-old loose in the car is as good as a trunk monkey if you can just figure out how to motivate him to do what you want,"

I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there.

The fact that he said "trunk monkey" is hilarious. I cracked smooth up over that'n.

What a great story.