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Re: Vancouver transit riders tasered for not paying fares         

Group: rec.travel.usacanada · Group Profile
Author: PeterL
Date: Apr 18, 2008 16:51

On Apr 18, 3:10В pm, "Patriot Games" America.com> wrote:
> "Mike O'Sullivan" nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> news:66rnp0F2jflksU1@mid.individual.net...
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>> Joe wrote:
>> "Navigation to the webpage was cancelled"
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> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080415.wbc-trans...
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> Vancouver transit riders tasered for not paying fares
> ROD MICKLEBURGH
>
>
> In one incident, a non-paying passenger was tasered after he held onto a
> railing on the SkyTrain platform and refused to let go.
>
> "After several warnings to the subject to stop resisting arrest and the
> subject failing to comply with the officers' commands, the taser was
> deployed and the subject was taken into control," said the report provided
> by TransLink, the region's transit authority.
>

So... not tased for not paying fare, but tased properly for resisting
arrest after repeated warning.
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