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Originally Posted by ironyoshi
Right, this was one of those steroid-pumping 95-year old studs. The funny thing is, every time a death from mostly-nonlethal devices (tazers, beanbags) gets in the news, someone will always be saying "but if it weren't for those things, the cops would have to physically subdue the individual, which is more dangerous." So how is four or five grown men holding this senior citizen down more dangerous than shooting him with a beanbag gun behind a riot shield?
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You would be amazed at how afraid people are of old geezers. I was once trying to do a job on a mental ward with a partner and this old guy who could barely walk did not like the fact that we were going to work in his room. So he started to attack us. The female therapy aid who was escorting us walked away from us. I could not believe it. What were we supposed to do when we were expressly told that it was our jobs if we so much as touched a client?
As it turns out, she was going to get a the only male therapy aids on the unit to restrain him because she did not feel that she could handle the problem. Back then I was young and naive and thought that females had the same job title they did the same work. Now I know better.
I will say that the old guy was certifiably insane though. The guy who was working with me could bench around 400 pounds and I was young and small but I could still bench over 200 pounds. Did not matter to him. He could barely stand but he was swinging for all he was worth.