A Tallahassee Florida police officer came upon a man last Friday who was walking his dog on the beach while in the nude.

The police officer asked the man what he was doing and he replied to the officer “Allah told me to watch a Bruce Willis movie and walk the dog”. The man apparently refused to follow the officer’s commands and ended up being tasered as it was the only way to subdue the man without having to hurt him.

The man was then sent for mental-health evaluation and treatment.

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.