I’ve written several stories here about people being accidentally tasered or taser use being abused, but here’s one where getting tasered might have actually helped someone.
An article published in the June Annals of Emergence Medicine by Cardiologists at Hartford described a patients who’d suffered from irregular heartbeats. His heart rhythm was restored to normal after he was Tasered by police.
COMMENTS (3)Did you hear about the man, Ronald Evano, that was sentenced last month to more than five years in jail due to his role in a fraud scheme in which he and his wife are said to have intentionally eaten glass fragments in order to collect more than $200,000 in compensation from a multi-state insurance company?
Evano was also ordered to repay as much as $340,000 for his role in defrauding insurers, grocery stores, restaurants, hospitals and doctors in the scheme in which both he and his wife claimed that there was glass in the food that they had eaten.
The couple filed fraudulent insurance claims worth more than $200,000 and incurred more than $100,000 in unpaid medical bills between 1997 and 2005 across several states.
Evano plead guilty to charges in federal court to 20 counts of mail fraud, conspiracy, wire fraud, identity theft, and making false statements on health care matters and social security fraud.
Evano’s wife, Mary, remains a fugitive. An arrest warrant has been issued for Mary Evano listing the same charges that her husband plead guilty to in August.
Evano asked the judge for mercy, saying in court that he and his wife are members of the minority Roma community, and needed the money to pay for dowries and other costs associated with the marriages of his sons under cultural practices.
In early March Emily Lineberger of Charlotte N.C, became a hero when she and her mother survived what could have been a disastrous car wreck.
Emily was riding in the back seat of the family car as her mother, Dayna Lineberger drove. Dayna began feeling light headed as she drove and decided to stop to get food at a nearby restaurant.
“Then it just hit me,” said Lineberger, 40. “The last thing I remember is screaming to her, `Tell me where to turn,’ because I couldn’t see. …”
As she drove into the restaurant parking lot, Lineberger passed out. Emily, 11 years of age, leaned forward and grabbed the wheel steering the car to avoid hitting on oncoming car. Her mother’s foot was still on the gas peddle so all that Emily could do from her position was steer the car. The vehicle stopped when it hit a telephone pole. Fortunately mother and daughter were uninjured.
The doctors that cared for Dayna Lineberger, who suffers from Ulcerative colitis, later stated that she had been dehydrated.
Good think Emily didn’t panic and quickly went into action to prevent what could have been a tragedy.
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