Police taser fan running onto baseball field

[JuNii]

During a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game, as occurs almost every day in a televised sporting event, a fan ran out onto the field. The police tasered him right on the field. Did the police do the right thing?

Consider the following:1. Fans have been running onto the field for at least the last 40 years and probably longer and no one has ever been significantly injured nor has the threat been more then a dumb practical joke. 2. It is still a crime. 3. Tasering is dangerous and should only be used as a last resort to prevent an obviously dangerous situation. 4. The guy deserves it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/ ... ?tag=strip

talk about answering your own question...

[JuNii]

Eluding security as he was, damn right the officer was justified in tasing him. What if the guy ended up attacking a player?

You're aware, of course, that this goes on all the time? especially in baseball, it seems.

and that, of course, makes it ok to do because it goes on all the time. *nods*

[Gun Manufacturers]

Eluding security as he was, damn right the officer was justified in tasing him. What if the guy ended up attacking a player?

You're aware, of course, that this goes on all the time? especially in baseball, it seems.

I know, but we can never know beforehand the intentions of such idiots. It's best to err on the side of caution, and get the guy off the field as quickly as possible. If that means using a taser, so be it.

[MisanthropicPopulism]

Is there any way we can use this to disparage Obama?

[JuNii]

Is there any way we can use this to disparage Obama?

"We never saw police using tasers on fans running out into the field during the past administrations."

how's dat?

[Brutland and Norden]

Eluding security as he was, damn right the officer was justified in tasing him. What if the guy ended up attacking a player?

Since he has them, they should use his balls for baseball.

[Flameswroth]

Is there any way we can use this to disparage Obama?

"Blacks oppressing white free expression, a clear manifestation of racial discrimination by our black President"

"Obama is seeking to rein in the spirit and joy of baseball by inflicting totalitarian behavioral requirements on those that attend, since baseball is the embodiment of America, and America is the great Satan to him and his Muslim compatriots"

"So much for seeking peace and using our words; clearly Obama's administration supports the use of excessive force on those who do not adhere to his ideals."

[Farnhamia]

Is there any way we can use this to disparage Obama?

I'm sure there must me. The cop is black, it appears. That's an opening right there. Maybe Obama will invite the cop and the kid to the White House for a ... no, the kid is only 17. Dang, no teaching moment.

[MisanthropicPopulism]

I think I should start posting seemingly innocuous news stories as topics and introduce an Obama-Aesop into it.

Obama-Aesop: A moral of a story that shows how Obama is a bad president.

[Flameswroth]

I think I should start posting seemingly innocuous news stories as topics and introduce an Obama-Aesop into it.

Obama-Aesop: A moral of a story that shows how Obama is a bad president.

You'd be stealing the thunder of other, prolific posters in doing so, but I admit I do find them entertaining when people do make such threads.

[Gauthier]

I think I should start posting seemingly innocuous news stories as topics and introduce an Obama-Aesop into it.

Obama-Aesop: A moral of a story that shows how Obama is a bad president.

YGO has been doing it ever since January 2009. Might want to ask him for tips.

[MisanthropicPopulism]

I think I should start posting seemingly innocuous news stories as topics and introduce an Obama-Aesop into it.

Obama-Aesop: A moral of a story that shows how Obama is a bad president.

You'd be stealing the thunder of other, prolific posters in doing so, but I admit I do find them entertaining when people do make such threads.

But all my threads would have nothing to do with politics or Obama. Just random news stories that I would smith into Obama disparagement. Satire is the highest form of flattery right?

[Panzerjaeger]

I think I should start posting seemingly innocuous news stories as topics and introduce an Obama-Aesop into it.

Obama-Aesop: A moral of a story that shows how Obama is a bad president.

You'd be stealing the thunder of other, prolific posters in doing so, but I admit I do find them entertaining when people do make such threads.

But all my threads would have nothing to do with politics or Obama. Just random news stories that I would smith into Obama disparagement. Satire is the highest form of flattery right?

I love the idea mostly because certain members would agree.

[Farnhamia]

I think I should start posting seemingly innocuous news stories as topics and introduce an Obama-Aesop into it.

Obama-Aesop: A moral of a story that shows how Obama is a bad president.

You'd be stealing the thunder of other, prolific posters in doing so, but I admit I do find them entertaining when people do make such threads.

But all my threads would have nothing to do with politics or Obama. Just random news stories that I would smith into Obama disparagement. Satire is the highest form of flattery right?

I love the idea mostly because certain members would agree.

YOU LIE!

I say go for it.

[Panzerjaeger]

I think I should start posting seemingly innocuous news stories as topics and introduce an Obama-Aesop into it.

Obama-Aesop: A moral of a story that shows how Obama is a bad president.

You'd be stealing the thunder of other, prolific posters in doing so, but I admit I do find them entertaining when people do make such threads.

But all my threads would have nothing to do with politics or Obama. Just random news stories that I would smith into Obama disparagement. Satire is the highest form of flattery right?

I love the idea mostly because certain members would agree.

YOU LIE!

I say go for it.

BABY KILLER!

Anyways I suggest more public tasings for my viewing satisfaction. Maybe I should make that one of my demands when I climb the top of the nearest clocktower armed with a sack of potatoes.

[Farnhamia]

I think I should start posting seemingly innocuous news stories as topics and introduce an Obama-Aesop into it.

Obama-Aesop: A moral of a story that shows how Obama is a bad president.

You'd be stealing the thunder of other, prolific posters in doing so, but I admit I do find them entertaining when people do make such threads.

But all my threads would have nothing to do with politics or Obama. Just random news stories that I would smith into Obama disparagement. Satire is the highest form of flattery right?

I love the idea mostly because certain members would agree.

YOU LIE!

I say go for it.

BABY KILLER!

Anyways I suggest more public tasings for my viewing satisfaction. Maybe I should make that one of my demands when I climb the top of the nearest clocktower armed with a sack of potatoes.

YOU LIE!
You should, definitely. Require each MLB team to employ at least three people who will run out of the stands at random times during each game and be tasered by the police. Perhaps they should receive bonuses if they elude the cops for more than five minutes.

@MisanthropicPopulism: May I suggest Jimmy Fallon getting the Emmy host slot as your first effotr?

[Flammable Ice]

Can someone explain to an outsider why American police consider the words "arrest" and "attack" to be synonyms?

[Farnhamia]

Can someone explain to an outsider why American police consider the words "arrest" and "attack" to be synonyms?

What's your security clearance, hmm?

[Novograd IV]

Can someone explain to an outsider why American police consider the words "arrest" and "attack" to be synonyms?

deffo this^

[Helyme]

Personally I think that the police were justified in there actions. If you watched the video the police tried to just tackle him but weren't able to so they used a Taser to bring him down.

[Wiztopia]

All he did was run on the field. It's not like he was streaking. Completely unjustified. Of course nothing will be happening to the cops since they're just as corrupt as politicians.

[East Fancainia]

'Tis funny

[Auremena]

They should have tackled him, like when I saw Rays vs Tigers last season (Rays were up 4-1 going into the 9th when the guy ran out. Inge then hit a grand slam, and the Rays did nothing in the bottom, making it 4-5, Tigers on top)

[Trippoli]

I blame Obama

[Katganistan]

Lesson learned:

Thousands of fans did not pay $60 to see some skinny jackass interrupt a game, endanger players by being somewhere he should not have been, and fleeing from security.

Apparently the threat of arrest, ejection, and banning from the park was not enough of a deterrent -- perhaps people won't be as eager to go screw up what could be a definitive play in the game.