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Vancouver transit riders tasered for not paying fares
ROD MICKLEBURGH
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
April 16, 2008 at 5:31 AM EDT
VANCOUVER - The country's only armed transit police have been tasering
passengers who try to avoid paying fares.
According to documents provided in response to a Freedom of Information
request, police patrolling public transit in the Metro Vancouver area have
used tasers 10 times in the past 18 months, including five occasions when
victims had been accosted for riding free.
In one incident, a non-paying passenger was tasered after he held onto a
railing on the SkyTrain platform and refused to let go.