Funny Taser Video
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 19:48
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Quote:Hmmm. And if he does, is that a problem?
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
even Piratenews probably isn't wearing a tinfoil hat
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Originally posted by rue:
I wonder what your bosses would think of you saying you find the crimes you prosecute to be amusing, as opposed to, say, unacceptable ...
My bosses realize that I deal with a lot of bad stuff. A person with my job and the wrong attitude quickly burns out and turns self destructive.
Now me I find all crime unacceptable. Plain and simple I go to work every day set to prosecute every criminal I can get my hands on. In doing so I deal with the world of crap. Bad Defendants, incompetant Defense Attorneys, bad judge rulings, the "one" juror who holds out, victims who are not sympathetic, witnesses who are bad, a mountain of paper, plus dealing with every little issue that comes up in any of the five Police Departments I prosecute for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 52 weeks a year.
But I love my job. I get to serve the community, I get to punish pedophiles and thieves, and yes I have the right and privilage to enjoy my work. I look foreward to new cases, I whistle on my way in on Mondays and take my cell with me on Fridays so I can be 'on call'.
How many of you can truly say you love your job? I can and a big reason why is because I can allow myself to be amused and find the humor in the stupid crap I deal with. I suggest that without that I'd not be happy in my work...and if I want to work a job I don't like I'd just take one of those six figure law firm jobs I get offered every year or so.
I note for the record that I've found many others that share this attitude about their jobs...not just lawyers. Cops, Doctors, nurses, teachers, animal shelter workers, and even computer geeks. They all share that kind of attitude to some extent more or less.
H
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Despite all your words - where the rubber meets the road, you find people screaming and writhing in pain amusing.
Of all the things one can find humor in - that one would disqualify anyone from their job: lawyers. cops, doctors, nurses, teachers, animal shelter workers, and even computer geeks.
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Lets' try it on for size-
a teacher finds it amusing to see a student screaming in pain
a nurse finds it amusing to see a patient screaming in pain
a doctor finds it amusing to see a patient screaming in pain
an animal shelter worker finds it amusing to see an animal screaming in pain
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Originally posted by rue:
Despite all your words - where the rubber meets the road, you find people screaming and writhing in pain amusing.
So you would never be caught watching America's Funniest Videos, Cops, World's Wildest Police Chases, or half the videos on YouTube.
Fine, thats your choice. Unfortunately I am required to watch videos of people at their worst. The worst behaivor, often dangerous to themselves and, far more importantly, dangerous to others including the police. If I cried tears of sympathy for every one I would not last a week. Thats what Public Defenders are for (a paid Defense Attorney's sympathy...is most often bought).
H
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As part of my hospital work, I watched people die every day, in real life in real time. Of all the times and places where one might want to 'toughen up' that would be one of them.
And while there were many things I thought about people dying, amusing wasn't one of them.
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added - but I am curious. How deeply is that entrenched in your local work culture ? Do you get together with other like-minded people for a drink after work and laugh about taserings ? Or is yours a private pleasure ?
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Far be it for me to stand up for this berk, but I have to throw in that such is generally a defense mechanism - in certain work, you see horrors so awful, so often, than unless you develop a very dark, if not outright black, sense of humor, you WILL lose your sanity after a while.
I've known two homicide detectives and a city coroner who's humor you'd find way more offensive, and given some of what I do - I've been at times offended by even my own amusement.
I mean, look at a battlefield, and it's stresses, on the spot, in the environment, one might find the disembodied leg of an enemy soldier spasmodically kicking itself in a circle downright hysterical - but it's not, it's simply a defense mechanism against such horrors as the human mind was never meant to concieve.
And believe me, I consider our "justice" system one of those horrors, from the on the street law enforcement, to the court and bench, to the penal system - the entire thing is so utterly dehumanizing that it poisons everyone who touches it, the stanford prison experiment is just the teensiest, tiniest taste of it... and add in some milgram for seasoning and human nature, and you have a genuine living nightmare even for folk with the very best of intentions.
This is what happens when you fall to the lure of the One Ring (Government).
Anyhows, yes, sure, he's a sick bastard, but he is an element in a system capable of producing nothing else - even the castoffs and hollow eyed burnouts are somewhat twisted.
The only difference between a courtroom and a cage match is that the gladiators in a courtroom wear suits, but beyond that it's every bit as savage.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Originally posted by Hero:Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
Despite all your words - where the rubber meets the road, you find people screaming and writhing in pain amusing.
So you would never be caught watching America's Funniest Videos, Cops, World's Wildest Police Chases, or half the videos on YouTube.
H
Speaking personally I don't. I'm not even fond of what I call "humiliation humor" movies where the "laughs" derive from pranking someone.
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Originally posted by leadb:Quote:Hmmm. And if he does, is that a problem?
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
even Piratenews probably isn't wearing a tinfoil hat
I heard a conspiracy theory that aluminum causes cancer. So... yeah.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Originally posted by rue:
I'm curious - did I foam ? Did I call anyone names ?
I thought I did a pretty good job de-constructing Hero's logic - by following it to its logical end.
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"Global warming - it's not just a fact, it's a choice."
No, Rue, you're judgemental. So am I, for that matter. That's why I say 'we' have to do better.
I mean, you've determined that Hero doesn't deserve his job because of his opinions. I know, I know, "That's not judgemental, that's justice. Someone with those opinions shouldn't be doing a job where..." I can run the line through my head without your help. I've thought it all before.
We should only care about one thing. We should care that he does his job well. (And, frankly, we will never have any way of knowing.) He can burn Christ in effigy on Sundays and watch Nazi propaganda in his spare time while eating popcorn and jacking off. (Which I am NOT suggesting he does.)
He can have any opinion, perception, or attitude he wants, and none of us know enough about him to judge him for it. None of us have the right to determine his worthiness for his job or anything else. We should restrict our judgement to his individual positions, not to his person.
In my humble opinion.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Hi Frem
I take it you've never heard of hospital humor. Where I work now there's one other ex-hospital person and every now and again we swap stories. I think there are some jobs where only people who've had those jobs understand. Police understand police, hospital people understand hospital people, military understand military and so on.
There were many things we found funny. For example, a doctor who had just returned to work after having a heart attack did chest compressions for a really long time on a person who came in as - essentially - a corpse (fracture of the base of the skull with bloody spinal fluid leaking out of the ears and nose). After 30 minutes everyone else was rolling their eyes at each other. The doctor finally bagged it after nearly an hour. But everyone was snickering behind his back.
But we weren't snickering over the patient's death.
And remember, Hero's not talking about the release of tension at the spur of the moment. No, he's talking about selecting other's pain, finding it, watching it after-the-fact in the relaxed comfort of his living room chair. To find people screaming in pain amusing under those circumstances is perverted, wouldn't you say ?
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"Global warming - it's not just a fact, it's a choice."
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