Stun Gun Attacks!

I wanted to write about the plain fact that weapons we use to defend ourselves can be used against us very easily if we aren’t familiar with our self defense deterrent, whether it be a pepper spray, a stun gun or even a real pistol for that matter. In the military, police force, or martial arts we are taught to use various weapons and to handle them until we are comfortable with them. This increases our probability of success in using them and decreases the opportunity that we will be disarmed and have our weapon used on us. That is another whole topic to discuss. I found a couple of bizarre episodes in a Google search for stun gun attacks to see what the wires might be chattering about and found these related but quite different stun gun assaults, both ending in very different ways.

Stun Gun Attacks On Homeless Compared To Jackass Movie

“Young Men Allegedly Urinate, Defecate On Victims”

Scream the headlines from Cleveland News Channel 5 – NewsNet5.com where a policeman said he was flagged down by a street preacher “Brother Wright” and alerted him that youths were stunning homeless people and then doing unspeakable things. “I’ve never seen anything like it in 18 years, except on TV,” said Sgt. Ray Burner. “Did you ever see the movie ‘Jackass?’ Well, that’s essentially what we’re talking about.”

The youths (several were minors) were taken into custody and released, except for a 19 yr. old and are set to be formally charge before the courts.

Goat Shrugs Off Shot From Stun Gun!

The Associated Press, reported a goat escaped while being transported to a children’s farmyard at a county fair. Running amok, as goats are prone to doing it “spent four days roaming neighborhoods on the west side of Austin, prompting a rash of “goat sighting” calls from residents.”

A local police officer blasted the goat with his Air Taser (goats are potentially deadly) and knocked the brute off of his feet and subdued him – until the policeman walked up, and the goat jumped to his feet and bolted again. He was found that Saturday afternoon sleeping peacefully on a resident’s front porch. The story left me without closure though, as they did not mention exactly by what means “the goat’s freedom came to an end”. Sounded kind of sinister to me? Guess I’m going to avoid places where goats “hang out”, they sound like pretty rough customers to me.