The Marmot’s Hole

16 Comments

1. nosaj100
   Posted January 15, 2008 at 12:26 am | Permalink

   Don’t Tase me 형!

2. cmm
   Posted January 15, 2008 at 12:29 am | Permalink

   don’t tase me bro!

3. JiMong
   Posted January 15, 2008 at 5:41 am | Permalink

   Uh oh, wrong toy for KNP. There would be many incidents by wrongful use of it by KNP.

4. The Metropolitician
   Posted January 15, 2008 at 7:15 am | Permalink

   #1 - You beat me to it! Damn you!

5. globalvillageidiot
   Posted January 15, 2008 at 8:06 am | Permalink

   Maybe not such great news for minorities arriving at Incheon International - or for foreigners being “uppity” in public - but not a bad development when it comes to the police dealing with lead pipe wielding, ball bearing slingshot shooting, molotov cocktail throwing thugs on the street. Can’t say I’d feel too bad about seeing some of those guys flopping around like fish outside Seoul Station on a nice spring day.

6. cmm
   Posted January 15, 2008 at 8:10 am | Permalink

   #1 beat me too it too, waited too long to press the post button I guess.

7. chiamattt
   Posted January 15, 2008 at 11:23 am | Permalink

   using tasers during a demonstration is probably the worst time to use one.

   There is nothing wrong with water canons.

8. mcnut
   Posted January 15, 2008 at 12:08 pm | Permalink

   i have seen the police beaten and attacked with beer and soju bottles and the police dont take the jerks down they continue to mediate and appease

   what would happen is a dunk addushi would take the taser away and incapaciate the police officers on many occasions

9. mins0306
   Posted January 15, 2008 at 1:03 pm | Permalink

   what would happen is a dunk addushi would take the taser away and incapaciate the police officers on many occasions

   There’s a good chance of that happening. As for the drunk ajusshi, I guess he will get away at first and after a manhunt lasting several weeks, turn himself him at the nearest police station and state his remorse for the situation while draped with a jacket.

10. whitey
    Posted January 15, 2008 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    Today’s 초등 학생 학원 bullies are tomorrow’s 시청 demonstrators. Might as well get them started on the taser training early.

11. littlebrownasian
    Posted January 15, 2008 at 8:04 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, I guess tasers would be better. Them young handsome men in costumes won’t look as cool if there were using pepper spray.

12. SomeguyinKorea
    Posted January 16, 2008 at 4:39 pm | Permalink

    What’s wrong with tear gas?

13. Mizar5
    Posted January 19, 2008 at 6:07 am | Permalink

    It’s about time.

14. Netizen Kim
    Posted January 19, 2008 at 6:41 am | Permalink

    I wonder what being tazed feels like?

15. globalvillageidiot
    Posted January 19, 2008 at 9:03 am | Permalink

    “What’s wrong with tear gas?”

    Too many innocent bystanders get nailed. I got gassed a few times here in ‘96 and ‘97. Wasn’t very pleasant. (In addition to tearing up, I couldn’t stop sneezing for about an hour.) Once I was taking pictures of a riot in Myeongdong one night - and admittedly should not have been there - but the other two times I can remember involved walking down the street in the middle of the afternoon and innocently stumbling upon a small demo in progress. Lots of other people - high school kids, the elderly, mothers with their children - were feeling it, and doing their best to duck into stores and coffee shops to escape the gas.

16. Zonath
    Posted January 19, 2008 at 10:55 am | Permalink

    Tasers are all well and good for stopping an attacker one-on-one, but I wonder how well they’ll perform a crowd control function. After all, don’t demonstrators usually outnumber police by a fairly hefty margin at these things?