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 (1)Police Taser man they are trying to rescue?
In June Mark Holder, 30, had a seizure as he drove his car in Boynton Beach Florida. His car swerved off the road and smashed into a sign. He was apparently badly injured in the accident.
Emergency workers arrived to assist the man and attempted to put a neck brace on him to stabilize his neck to prevent any further damage if any existed. However, while the man was being assisted by EMS workers he became combative … likely due to the seizure that he’d just had, he probably didn’t know what was going on.
So what did the people trying to help him do? They tasered him … well the police did – several times just so that the EMS workers could fit the brace to the drivers neck. Yeah, that was helpful. I wonder what the Emergency Medical Service workers thought of their patient being tasered?
COMMENTS (0)Want to take some time off during March Madness week?
Well the Springfield ore. Oregon Urology Institute has come up with an idea that will gives guys a very valid excuse to sit around watching college basketball games.
Get a vasectomy.
That’s right. They are suggesting that it’s the perfect time to get a vasectomy.
“When March Madness approaches you need an excuse … to stay at home in front of the big screen,” the clinic’s radio ad says. “Get your vasectomy at Oregon Urology Institute the day before the tournament starts. It’s snip city.”
Men generally need two to four days to recover from the procedure and it seems that men are taking the suggestion seriously. The administrator of the Institute has already reserved dozens of appointment slots for March 19th, the day before the first NCAA tipoffs. He’s also got at least a dozen appointments set for March 26th – just before the tournaments second week begins.
A local sports radio station has been broadcasting the clinics ads and they’ve promised to send each patient a recovery kit that includes sports magazines, a bag of frozen peas (for relief) and free pizza delivery.
So who’s in?
