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- Johann4u, on 10/11/2007, -3/+523"We don't know what ignited the fire." Police said.
Ummm ...this is just too easy... - Albionshores, on 10/11/2007, -11/+494A man is upset because his wife is divorcing him and so when he pours petrol over himself the police shoot him with a Taser!?!
What do they do when a business man threatens to jump from his works building. Push him with a stick? - fober, on 10/11/2007, -4/+403Water gun filled with petrol...
Taser attachment...
OMG BRB PATENT OFFICE
(most likely ER soon after) - unicronband, on 10/11/2007, -4/+310Absolutely shocking. Especially with gas prices like these.
- OneHine, on 10/11/2007, -14/+309@Johann4u
Police "don't know" because as long as they play stupid, they don't have to admit that they're guilty of manslaughter. - tdrizzle, on 10/11/2007, -4/+245"Some stun guns emit an electric spark when they deliver the jolt of electricity."
You don't say... - IShouldBeWorkin, on 10/11/2007, -5/+135"We don't know what ignited the fire," police said.
i think i have a pretty good idea... - TheTaoOfBill, on 10/11/2007, -7/+128I blame spontaneous combustion. I mean that happens all the time. M I RITE?
- unicronband, on 10/11/2007, -7/+117Actually no. The guy was a total flamer.
- waterboy1628, on 10/11/2007, -7/+86"The Texas Rangers were also investigating whether a lighter that was on the porch could have contributed to the fire."
Why is a baseball team doing CSI? - TomP, on 10/11/2007, -3/+80WITCH!!! WITCH!!!
- letsgopens2006, on 10/11/2007, -20/+97Whoever pulled the trigger should be charged with manslaughter
- Asianwaste, on 10/11/2007, -5/+71A while back pepper spray used to be oil based (it's water base now) but we did away with that because a cop tagged a guy with the spray but the guy kept going after the cop so the cop escalated to the taser. The two combined combusted the man's face.
- DJCult, on 10/11/2007, -0/+61From what I hear, It was always burning. Apparently, since the world's been turning.
- TDot1980, on 10/11/2007, -17/+74ok digg me down...........
What's wrong with mans laughter!!!! - lordtyros, on 10/11/2007, -8/+59THE TASER!!
Am I right? - TheTaoOfBill, on 10/11/2007, -4/+54Are we sure this happened in Texas? Sounds like something the Reno Sheriff's Department would do.
- superbum42, on 10/11/2007, -5/+53Clearly it's like they suspect. There was a lighter just laying there on the porch. The other stuff is trivial.
- fhernand, on 10/11/2007, -9/+57"quick! sprinkle the dope errh.. I mean pass me your lighter!"
- unicronband, on 10/11/2007, -8/+56Not the baseball team you ***** idiot, it's Walker's kids.
- fuzzmeister, on 10/11/2007, -8/+54I'm pretty sure that's the entire point, guys.
- Emaze, on 10/11/2007, -2/+45"No one else was injured in the confrontation. It was unclear whether Lopez had been charged with anything."
...you mean anything other than 50,000 volts??? - tech42er, on 10/11/2007, -0/+39We didn't start the fire.
Just tried a pepper sprayer; then we used a taser.
We didn't start the fire.
Though we did ignite him when we tried to fight him.
We didn't start the fire... - houndeyex, on 10/11/2007, -13/+51Wow, nice misleading title. Here I thought it was the taser catching him on fire. "Wow! Cool!" I thought to myself, then it turns out there is gasoline involved. What a rip off!
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/11/2007, -6/+39@n10cities
Wow....
just...
wow...
Next time you try to act like you are the all knowing one sent to bring us truth be sure it's not something everyone already knew. Oh and get your sarcasim meter checked. - orxor, on 10/11/2007, -7/+31Fire doesn’t burn Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris burns fire.
- rlutterb, on 10/11/2007, -23/+47The dude threatened to burn himself and his home, then poured gas on himself. Good riddance to another crazy *****.
- iamlost456, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26The person who decided to taser the guy has to really feel like an idiot now.
I'm better he was using Ron Burgundy's famous words:
"I immediately regret this decision" - falstaff, on 10/11/2007, -5/+29Forgive me for going against the Digg flow on this one...
He's been threatening harm for years. He is having a heated argument. He came prepared to this argument with gasoline and a lighter. He douses himself in gas.
How is this guy NOT an immediate danger to the people around him? - ThisIsMyName, on 10/11/2007, -10/+33We're talking about cops - I don't think a lot of thought went into this.
The officer probably consulted the universal cops manual:
If you're presented with a potentially dangerous situation, you should:
a) Not intervene until backups arrive
b) Threaten the subject with violence if they don't comply with your orders
c) Commit a violent act and threaten more if they still don't comply with your orders
d) Shoot them and let the courts sort it out - surfacewound, on 10/11/2007, -6/+29No, the point is to stun them by sending the electrical current through their body, not to create an actual spark outside of their body.
- brbubba, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22"I smell a future MYTHBUSTERS episode on this one...as obvious as it sounds I wonder if the taser is capable of starting a fire."
Dude, how do you think fires are started at the gas pump, magic? People build up a static charge, touch a ground, which cause a spark and ignites the gasoline fumes. Apparently though you need to have an edumacation before you realize that electricity and petrol don't mix. We need to start throwing people in jail for stupidity or require mandatory equivalency testing and subsequent education classes. - pailsOfGrease, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24@ hfactor:
1 hand for taser
1 hand for donut - eaasness, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26I'm sure there will be an investigation, but it is hard to convict a peace officer with manslaughter. I don't know about that. FTA "Police initially used pepper spray when they tried to take Lopez into custody". The man clearly was resisting arrest and was obviously not stable (he poured gasoline on himself and was threatening to light himself and the house on fire).
The sad thing is his wife, who was trying to divorce him and most likely the one who called the police, will probably sue the department and win. - lukehh, on 10/11/2007, -8/+29Cop IQ: 48
- inactive, on 08/20/2009, -7/+28Sounds like the back story of a super-villain
- Jester13, on 10/11/2007, -8/+28ZOMG DOUBLE PUN!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22Once they sprinkle some crack on him, they'll be okay.
- hfactor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19Don´t they have hands any more?
- razor150, on 10/11/2007, -5/+22Somebody needs to tell these police officers that electricity and gasoline does not mix. The guy would have been better of if they had just clubbed him with their nightsticks.
- PamalaLauren, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20How do you not make the connection that gasoline and electricity don't mix well? I mean even if you don't think it will start a fire, would you want to test that theory?
What's with using the taser so much? Don't they have rubber bullets anymore? - zombiedepot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Yes, burning to death is so much better.
- razor150, on 10/11/2007, -8/+23When you send electricity through somebodies body, there is a good chance there will be a spark.
- BlackCow, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16wtf is your problem dude, petrol is a perfectly fine word and fyi the internet is bigger then the US.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15"well I guess texas cops only drive diesels, that's why they have no idea, huh."
No, man. It's Texas cops we're talking about here.
They ride horses. - Grouser, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16"I'm still waiting to hear how they should have handled this. They didn't want this man to ignite himself. They didn't want to grab him physically, for obvious reasons."
Throw a blanket over him. I've seen that tactic employed several times. Most police cruisers have a blanket in the trunk.
They give police so much weaponry these days that they forget how to go hand-to-hand. It's a wonder you can keep your trousers up with all that weight hanging off your belt.
- anachronaut, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14You know, it's really not that difficult to research this stuff. From a different source that took me all of 15 seconds to find:
"Juan Flores Lopez, 47, was holding gasoline in his hand and a lighter. The police report said he poured some gasoline on himself and then threw the container at police, who were not hurt during the incident."
So, yeah... I think they probably had some reason to suspect that he was "covered in gasoline" when they tasered him. - niczar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14Yeah, it's not like it SMELLS or something, I mean.
- arcangelgabriel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Speaking as a "dumb *****" police officer, as with most situations one cannot appreciate the situation or the circumstances surrounding an incident unless you were there.
Situation, one that I was directly involved with.
Call of a fight. I arrive. 1 man with large cuts on his head, a split lip and possible facial fractures on the ground, lots o blood. The other, a burn on his neck from a cigarette standing over him. After a brief investigation the man on the ground was arrested.
Bystanders who came to gawk after the fact were appalled that I arrested the 'victim'. "How could you?" "What are you ***** stupid? Look at him", "***** stupid pig". were the comments lobbed at me.
As it turned out, the man, a former friend of man 2, on the ground broke into the other mans home drunk, began a profanity laden tirade in his living room in front of his young children and when told to leave the mans home burned him with a lit cigarette. The man retaliated by slugging him good and hard in the kisser and physically ejecting him out the front door. The injuries were sustained mostly from facing the sidewalk.
Man 1 was was charged with burglary and assault. Man 2 was charged with nothing, he was protecting his home and family from an unwanted person.
Several complaints were lodged against me for the arrest by outraged citizens who, as mentioned, came after the fact, all because they didn't see the entire event.
I'm not defending the officers in the taser case. I'm simply pointing out, you weren't there, you don't know the whole story, time frame or surrounding events. Let the courts decide. Keep your bullet in your shirt pocket.
Peace and love
AG - Albionshores, on 10/11/2007, -8/+18@tehpwnrate,
"I'm still waiting to hear how they should have handled this. They didn't want this man to ignite himself."
By the old fashioned policing tactic of talking him down. De-escalating a situation not escalating it. He'd been threatening it for weeks allegedly and the police had time to get there. He obviously wasn't in a rush. -
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