nashville wank? say it ain't so!
Edit: BAHLEETED! Woe, my cache does not have it.

Yep. Nashville wank. And it doesn't involve country music, publishing, or the medical profession, either.

You see, recently a young man was tasered to death outside a local club. (I do not know the whole story; what I know is that he was tripping like mad and was known for doing drugs.)

wolfgrrl posted a short, but outraged, entry regarding this to

nashvillians and within three threads the wank was on!

The entry itself isn't really all that wanky; it's two lines, both of which were links.

randomwriter starts off the wanking, but it's

uhohlissa who really revs things up, because

randomwriter pretty much disappears after hir sole comment. Accusations of immaturity and inability to understand what the police really have to deal with fly thick and fast, and it's not long before

uhohlissa pulls out the "I know someone who is!" card, although in this case it's "my parents are LEO so STFU!" (What is the jurisimprudence law for that?) Later on

mikedisaster chides the group for callousness and cruelty, and

uhohlissa opens up on him/her, too. More invocations of various jurisimprudence laws occur, and basically it's a big, wanky mess.

God I love this city. /sarcasm

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moonjaguar
2005-09-28 03:11 pm UTC (link)

There was huge news in Chicago about taser deaths earlier this year. The cops were using them on people's chests, wtf?? One of the results was that people now have to have FOID cards in Illinois to carry them (tasers are firearms?).

I've seen pepper spray way overused by law enforcement, I can see them playing "if I put the stun gun here, his leg jumps! Cool!" or just jabbing the shit out of someone. Taser someone tripping out of their brains who likely can't comply? Sure, randomwriter... tasers don't tickle. A friend of a friend surprise-jabbed me on the leg with a lower-output stun gun. Ugggh.

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	moonjaguar 2005-09-28 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	Baleeted. Rats. (Reply to this)

	phosfate 2005-09-28 03:53 pm UTC (link)
	Nashville wank. And it doesn't involve country music, publishing, or the medical profession, either. I was gonna guess Robert Altman. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	snacky 2005-09-28 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	I was thinking warring barbecue factions. "Dry ribs are the best!" "NO, WET ARE, YOU MANIAC!" ~~I've been watching way too much Food Network.~~ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pragmatic 2005-09-29 05:29 am UTC (link)
	Didn't people in Nashville really hate Altman for making that movie? Well, I guess some did. I doubt they all think as one. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amxjm 2005-09-28 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	nashvillians makes me think of a comm for villains in the Nashville area. Heh. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	notjo 2005-09-28 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	You mean it's not? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amxjm 2005-09-28 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	I think it's supposed to be a name for all residents of Nashville, actually. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notjo 2005-09-28 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	All residents of Nashville are villians? Dude...It's like City of Villians only with a country music soundtrack! glee It's REALLY evil! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amxjm 2005-09-28 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	snerk (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	naienko 2005-09-28 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	Y'all have /no/ idea. Really. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	janegraddell 2005-09-29 02:12 am UTC (link)
	What's really pathetic is that this was the first I've heard of it. I desperately need to find a better way to get news. The City Paper and NPR aren't cutting it.... (Reply to this)

	sesana 2005-09-29 02:57 am UTC (link)
	I wave to you from the northern 'burbs. I first took notice of the story because it seems that the company who manufactures the tasers sent out mass warnings to police telling them not to do exactly what the police did in this case. (That is, taser a subject multiple times, especially when that subject is under the influence.) (Reply to this)