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Man Catches Fire After Being Tasered

Posted by samzenpus on from the that's-some-fine-police-work-there-lou dept.

An anonymous Coward writes "West Australian Police tasered a man while arresting him for sniffing petrol, and managed to set fire to him in the process. Details seem to be scanty so far, but I trust the audience here to do the maths as to whether the ignition source was the taser itself."

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  1. Why? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do we waste public money on having armed men go after you for killing your own brain cells? (observers of Australian policing will be shocked to learn that this is yet another dysfunctional interaction between the cops and the aboriginals...)