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Topic: Are we really becoming this stupid?
daniel48706 Joined Fri 03/16/07 Posts: 8566	Mon 05/19/08 05:00 AM
BOULDER, Colo. - It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080519/ap_on_fe_st/odd_dueling_tasers;_ylt=Ag2gyLmn_ljbF39ikS_UBYIuQE4F Are we, as a whole, really becoming this ignorant and stupid?

RicJL Joined Wed 03/19/08 Posts: 1055	Mon 05/19/08 05:03 AM
Apparently so...

Def03 Joined Tue 01/29/08 Posts: 910	Mon 05/19/08 05:05 AM
come on that funny. I m they are causeing themselve bodliy injury and getting the public eye. Anything to be on the camera

BluesPreacher Joined Mon 05/19/08 Posts: 77	Mon 05/19/08 05:14 AM
How good of a parking spot was it? Here in California good parking spaces can get you killed

daniel48706 Joined Fri 03/16/07 Posts: 8566	Mon 05/19/08 05:25 AM
come on that funny. I m they are causeing themselve bodliy injury and getting the public eye. Anything to be on the camera This is what I am talking about. Nothing personal, but it is not simply funny. It was absolutely stupid. arrogant and unnecesarry. Now, I don't knwo the whole story. I don't knwo if the guard was throwing his weight around, or acting the professional and the other guy throwing his weight around, but both are grown men, and both should have just shut their mouths, and acted like adults. The guard could have taken a picture of the boot on the car, and the guy cutting it off for evidence (My background is security and law enforcement as well), so if the other guy wasnt wiling to be responsible and mature then he would have the evidence he needed. Or he could have called a cop in to handle it. THAT is what a guard is NORMALLY supposed to do, in general. If something is wrong, call the cops. The other question I have is, what the hell is this resteraunt owner (?) doing with a taser i n the first place? I am sorry but a taser should be classified and treated exactly as a firearm. It is a nonlethal weapon, and nothing else.

warmachine Joined Tue 04/08/08 Posts: 4528	Mon 05/19/08 06:12 AM
BOULDER, Colo. - It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080519/ap_on_fe_st/odd_dueling_tasers;_ylt=Ag2gyLmn_ljbF39ikS_UBYIuQE4F Are we, as a whole, really becoming this ignorant and stupid? LOL, what do you mean "becoming"...

daniel48706 Joined Fri 03/16/07 Posts: 8566	Mon 05/19/08 06:40 AM
BOULDER, Colo. - It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080519/ap_on_fe_st/odd_dueling_tasers;_ylt=Ag2gyLmn_ljbF39ikS_UBYIuQE4F Are we, as a whole, really becoming this ignorant and stupid? LOL, what do you mean "becoming"... lol, I like to think that the majority of the population isnt at this level yet. Call it wishful thinking, but I still like to hope

heartSoul Joined Sun 08/26/07 Posts: 6038	Mon 05/19/08 06:44 AM
it's really sad, isn't it?

daniel48706 Joined Fri 03/16/07 Posts: 8566	Mon 05/19/08 06:46 AM
And people wonder why I am intending to move out of society within the next ten years (10 seconds f at all possible, lol)

warmachine Joined Tue 04/08/08 Posts: 4528	Mon 05/19/08 06:54 AM
BOULDER, Colo. - It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080519/ap_on_fe_st/odd_dueling_tasers;_ylt=Ag2gyLmn_ljbF39ikS_UBYIuQE4F Are we, as a whole, really becoming this ignorant and stupid? LOL, what do you mean "becoming"... lol, I like to think that the majority of the population isnt at this level yet. Call it wishful thinking, but I still like to hope I'm gonna have to call it wishful thinking, check out how many times any one of these threads denegrates within mere hours into ninnying and namecalling rather than thoughtful debate expressing differing viewpoints. It's got many things to blame, educational systems that are increasingly more interested in teaching politicized social issues and not whats needed, an epidemic of sodium flouride and other crap in the water supply which after a long term amount of exposure can do damage to cognintive capacity, certain vaccines which have been shown to have a correlation to damaging the brain. Lets not forget that the tube, with all it's PROGRAMMING, has propagandized a huge swath of the population, turning them into bleating sheeple. That's just the stuff I could think of off the top of my head!

warmachine Joined Tue 04/08/08 Posts: 4528	Mon 05/19/08 06:56 AM
I am however easily amused and I think that watching these idiots taze one another would have been funny, so I have issues of my own!

daniel48706 Joined Fri 03/16/07 Posts: 8566	Mon 05/19/08 06:58 AM
I am however easily amused and I think that watching these idiots taze one another would have been funny, so I have issues of my own! IO have to agree. Even though it isnt a funny situation, I would have laughed my ass off once I made sure they wer eboth ok.

warmachine Joined Tue 04/08/08 Posts: 4528	Mon 05/19/08 07:14 AM
Well, we both agree on that, I guess we've got conditioning of our own to deal with... How would a Taser duel work anyway? You taking turns? Whatever happened to a good old fashioned fist fight?

symbelmyne Joined Mon 01/14/08 Posts: 5356	Mon 05/19/08 08:08 AM


madisonman Joined Sun 12/23/07 Posts: 4573	Mon 05/19/08 05:42 PM
BOULDER, Colo. - It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080519/ap_on_fe_st/odd_dueling_tasers;_ylt=Ag2gyLmn_ljbF39ikS_UBYIuQE4F Are we, as a whole, really becoming this ignorant and stupid? Thisa is what you get when you vote republican

Dragoness Joined Wed 10/17/07 Posts: 23320	Mon 05/19/08 05:45 PM
I think it is terribly hilarious myself. They did not kill each other and men are known to do pretty crazy things to prove their MANLINESS..lol

rayne5 Joined Sun 12/16/07 Posts: 398	Tue 05/20/08 09:40 PM
come on that funny. I m they are causeing themselve bodliy injury and getting the public eye. Anything to be on the camera This is what I am talking about. Nothing personal, but it is not simply funny. It was absolutely stupid. arrogant and unnecesarry. Now, I don't knwo the whole story. I don't knwo if the guard was throwing his weight around, or acting the professional and the other guy throwing his weight around, but both are grown men, and both should have just shut their mouths, and acted like adults. The guard could have taken a picture of the boot on the car, and the guy cutting it off for evidence (My background is security and law enforcement as well), so if the other guy wasnt wiling to be responsible and mature then he would have the evidence he needed. Or he could have called a cop in to handle it. THAT is what a guard is NORMALLY supposed to do, in general. If something is wrong, call the cops. The other question I have is, what the hell is this resteraunt owner (?) doing with a taser i n the first place? I am sorry but a taser should be classified and treated exactly as a firearm. It is a nonlethal weapon, and nothing else. Dude first get a sense of humer. Second anyone can buy a taser there just expensive. They were probably using the two prong projectile type. If they want to waist there money replacing cartrages for these. ($500-$1000 a piece)

lpingham Joined Sun 05/18/08 Posts: 2	Tue 05/20/08 10:15 PM Edited by lpingham on Tue 05/20/08 10:22 PM
come on that funny. I m they are causeing themselve bodliy injury and getting the public eye. Anything to be on the camera This is what I am talking about. Nothing personal, but it is not simply funny. It was absolutely stupid. arrogant and unnecesarry. Now, I don't knwo the whole story. I don't knwo if the guard was throwing his weight around, or acting the professional and the other guy throwing his weight around, but both are grown men, and both should have just shut their mouths, and acted like adults. The guard could have taken a picture of the boot on the car, and the guy cutting it off for evidence (My background is security and law enforcement as well), so if the other guy wasnt wiling to be responsible and mature then he would have the evidence he needed. Or he could have called a cop in to handle it. THAT is what a guard is NORMALLY supposed to do, in general. If something is wrong, call the cops. The other question I have is, what the hell is this resteraunt owner (?) doing with a taser i n the first place? I am sorry but a taser should be classified and treated exactly as a firearm. It is a nonlethal weapon, and nothing else. Dude, if you are in law enforcement, then you know that people are unfortunately ignorant and stupid. That's why we have a job. Yes it is silly and sad that people react that way, but in law enforcement, we see this all the time. If you are that serious and offended by this, maybe you should not do the job. If you can't laugh at the stupidity and see it for what is, life will become a stressful mess for you. I have witnessed and heard a lot of bad, sad, demented, and twisted things and recognize them for what they are, but ranting about it and getting upset does me no good. It would only give me a headache.

daniel48706 Joined Fri 03/16/07 Posts: 8566	Wed 05/21/08 05:06 AM
come on that funny. I m they are causeing themselve bodliy injury and getting the public eye. Anything to be on the camera This is what I am talking about. Nothing personal, but it is not simply funny. It was absolutely stupid. arrogant and unnecesarry. Now, I don't knwo the whole story. I don't knwo if the guard was throwing his weight around, or acting the professional and the other guy throwing his weight around, but both are grown men, and both should have just shut their mouths, and acted like adults. The guard could have taken a picture of the boot on the car, and the guy cutting it off for evidence (My background is security and law enforcement as well), so if the other guy wasnt wiling to be responsible and mature then he would have the evidence he needed. Or he could have called a cop in to handle it. THAT is what a guard is NORMALLY supposed to do, in general. If something is wrong, call the cops. The other question I have is, what the hell is this resteraunt owner (?) doing with a taser i n the first place? I am sorry but a taser should be classified and treated exactly as a firearm. It is a nonlethal weapon, and nothing else. Dude first get a sense of humer. Second anyone can buy a taser there just expensive. They were probably using the two prong projectile type. If they want to waist there money replacing cartrages for these. ($500-$1000 a piece) Dude, first dont tell me to get a sense of humor, I have one, it just does not include the idea that it is funny for two grown men to assault each other because they were both so pig-headed that they could not call in a third person to clear up the issue (like the guards superior, or a cop for the resteraunt manager). Uneeded violence is a waste and nothing else. So please, do nt tell me to get a sense of humor and thus to change my beliefs on somethign as ignorant and stupid as this.

daniel48706 Joined Fri 03/16/07 Posts: 8566	Wed 05/21/08 05:09 AM
come on that funny. I m they are causeing themselve bodliy injury and getting the public eye. Anything to be on the camera This is what I am talking about. Nothing personal, but it is not simply funny. It was absolutely stupid. arrogant and unnecesarry. Now, I don't knwo the whole story. I don't knwo if the guard was throwing his weight around, or acting the professional and the other guy throwing his weight around, but both are grown men, and both should have just shut their mouths, and acted like adults. The guard could have taken a picture of the boot on the car, and the guy cutting it off for evidence (My background is security and law enforcement as well), so if the other guy wasnt wiling to be responsible and mature then he would have the evidence he needed. Or he could have called a cop in to handle it. THAT is what a guard is NORMALLY supposed to do, in general. If something is wrong, call the cops. The other question I have is, what the hell is this resteraunt owner (?) doing with a taser i n the first place? I am sorry but a taser should be classified and treated exactly as a firearm. It is a nonlethal weapon, and nothing else. Dude, if you are in law enforcement, then you know that people are unfortunately ignorant and stupid. That's why we have a job. Yes it is silly and sad that people react that way, but in law enforcement, we see this all the time. If you are that serious and offended by this, maybe you should not do the job. If you can't laugh at the stupidity and see it for what is, life will become a stressful mess for you. I have witnessed and heard a lot of bad, sad, demented, and twisted things and recognize them for what they are, but ranting about it and getting upset does me no good. It would only give me a headache. Yes I knwo people are ignorant (uninformed) and stupid at times, and yes this is precisely why we have law enforcement and security. However, that does not make it a funny situation. It just makes it less so. As I said earlier, after I made sure both were ok, I would probably laugh over their stupidity at each of them, but it is stills tupid.