The cops in Canada seem to be getting the hang of the Taser business. Mounties summoned to a British Columbia hospital tased an octogenarian patient after he pulled a knife from his pocket. Eighty-two-year-old Frank Lasser, who was suffering from pneumonia and had been admitted to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, claimed that sometimes he got delusional when he got short of breath. Did that, however, manufacture it right for the police to tase him, bro?

Mounties corporal Scott Wilson defended his colleague’s grandad-bashing actions. “Whether the person is 80 or 20, we are dealing with a person who had a deadly weapon in their hand. We could not deploy our … pepper spray, considering we could potentially contaminate the entire hospital.”

Lasser, a former prison guard, reckons they overdid it, claiming that, with three Mounties in the room, they could have overpowered him without using a Taser. Lasser said there were three RCMP officers in his hospital room and believes they could have easily handled him without the use of a Taser. “I was laying on the bed by next and the corporal came in, or the sergeant, and said to the guys, ‘OK, get him considering we got more vital work to do on the street tonight,’” he said.

“And thereupon, bang, bang, bang, three times with the laser, and I tell you, I never want that again.” That’ll teach him to bring a knife to hospital, thereupon. [CBC News via Dvorak]

Original post by Addy Dugdale