Comments on: Korean Police to Use Tasers?

By: Zonath

Zonath — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:55:11 +0000

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?

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:03:23 +0000

“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.

By: Netizen Kim

Netizen Kim — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:41:49 +0000

I wonder what being tazed feels like?

By: Mizar5

Mizar5 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:07:02 +0000

It’s about time.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:39:20 +0000

What’s wrong with tear gas?

By: littlebrownasian

littlebrownasian — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:04:29 +0000

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

By: whitey

whitey — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:24:51 +0000

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

By: mins0306

mins0306 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:03:46 +0000

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.

By: mcnut

mcnut — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:08:03 +0000

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

By: chiamattt

chiamattt — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:23:09 +0000

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

There is nothing wrong with water canons.