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2012/10/17 22:04:17
Subject: Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
A blind stroke victim said he thought he was going to die when he was shot in the back with a 50,000-volt Taser stun gun by a police officer who mistook his white stick for a Samurai sword.
Colin Farmer, 61, collapsed to the ground in shock and believed he was having another stroke which could prove fatal.
The police blunder happened as reports were received of a man walking through the town centre of Chorley, Lancashire, with the martial arts weapon.
Meanwhile, Mr Farmer, who has suffered two strokes and walks at a "snail's pace", was on his way to the pub to meet friends for a drink and did not realise anything was afoot.
Mr Farmer said he heard shouting on the street but did not know what it was about and thought he was going to be attacked by "some hooligans".
He was then struck by the Taser and fell to the ground in Peter Street, and dropped his white stick on the floor, before a policeman handcuffed him.
When the mistake was realised he was taken to Chorley Hospital for treatment and was later released. The incident happened at about 5.45pm last Friday.
Speaking to ITV Granada Reports, he said: "I was just walking along and I just heard some men shouting really angrily and I thought I'm going to get mugged. So I didn't know any police were here. The Taser hit me in the back and it started sending all these thousands of volts through me and I was terrified. I mean I had two strokes already caused by stress. When these volts were going through me I dropped the stick involuntarily and I collapsed on the floor face down."
He added: "I was shaking and I thought 'I'm going to have another stroke any second and this one is going to kill me. I'm being killed. I'm being killed'."
Lancashire Police apologised to Mr Farmer for the "traumatic experience" but confirmed the officer who fired the Taser has not been suspended and remains on duty. Mr Farmer says he is taking legal action against the force and wants the officer involved charged with assault.
The Kasrkin were just men. It made their actions all the more astonishing. Six white blurs, they fell upon the cultists, lasguns barking at close range. They wasted no shots. One shot, one kill. - Eisenhorn: Malleus
2012/10/17 22:06:16
Subject: Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
The Kasrkin were just men. It made their actions all the more astonishing. Six white blurs, they fell upon the cultists, lasguns barking at close range. They wasted no shots. One shot, one kill. - Eisenhorn: Malleus
2012/10/17 22:14:47
Subject: Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
Because then he wouldn't have gotten to tase anyone.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2012/10/17 22:37:09
Subject: Re:Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
It might be just me, but I'd struggle to see a 2cm thick cylindrical stick without any kind of hand guard, handle, blade, or anything that constitutes a sword in any way, shape or form, and mistake it for a samurai sword. Maybe I'm just really observant like that.
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2012/10/17 22:41:43
Subject: Re:Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
Thank god this isn't an American story. Although if it was I'd guess it'd read "blind man with walking stick shot by police who 'mistook it for a weapon'". Man dies in hospital, police officer fined 12$ and given a slap on the wrist.
That being said talk about crap ass luck... The dudes already a blind double stroke victim. When it rains it pours?
2012/10/17 23:20:09
Subject: Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
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2012/10/17 23:36:18
Subject: Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
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2012/10/17 23:48:15
Subject: Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
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2012/10/18 00:02:08
Subject: Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
More blind puns here than you could shake a samurai sword at.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2012/10/18 00:09:29
Subject: Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
2012/10/18 00:25:18
Subject: Re:Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
Think the offcer just took a blind shot at the old guy?
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2012/10/18 00:45:56
Subject: Re:Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
shrike wrote: It might be just me, but I'd struggle to see a 2cm thick cylindrical stick without any kind of hand guard, handle, blade, or anything that constitutes a sword in any way, shape or form, and mistake it for a samurai sword. Maybe I'm just really observant like that.
Has the copper never seen a blind person with their sensing stick (or whatever the technical term is) before?
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2012/10/18 00:46:14
Subject: Re:Blind stroke victim tasered by police because his walking stick looked like 'a Samurai sword'
And if you're drinkin' well, you know that you're my friend and I say "I think I'll have myself a beer" 
