Friday 25 April 2014

What happens when a tazer doesn't work!

Thankfully none of the following happened on the door I was working at, I was in Scarborough at the Blue lounge bar listening to the council run CCTV operators following a frequently violent man well known to the police.  He had made one of his random appearances in the town centre and had proceeded to start a fight in the first pub he'd managed to get into, presumably the door staff there didn't know or recognise him but when they had gone to remove him he'd beaten both of them up!   I listened as a member of bar staff was relaying what had just happened to the CCTV operator who acknowledged that he had the man on camera and he was following him as he walked into town.
I could tell from the radio chatter that he was heading in our direction so began to lookout for him in the distance.  Luckily police units had been notified and as I caught sight of the man they were just passing my door.  As soon as they stopped near him he became immediately aggressive and went for one of the police officers, the other jumped on top of him but from what we could see he just seemed to be beating them back!   Two more police units appeared, one came past my door and the other from the far end of the street, presumably in case he decided to run but to be honest he looked like he was enjoying himself!  
This made 6 police officers surrounding him and we could hear an officer shout that he was going to tazer the man unless he stopped,  his response? 
"Come on then!!"
We heard the officer warn him again then the man moved forwards so the officer shouted tazer a few times and we saw the man bend over sharply, he then stood back up with arms out screaming "aaaargh!"   And went straight for the copper who had tazered him!   
We could see a huge scuffle unfold and after 30 seconds or so the man was back on his feet with his back to a wall shouting every name under the sun at the police!  Then the strangest thing happened, he looked at the police in front of him and shrugged his shoulders and shouted "I'll make it easy for ya!"
Holding his arms out wrists together ready to be handcuffed!   It felt like an eternity before two of the coppers moved slowly forwards and cuffed the man who was now as calm as anything!   I dunno maybe he just got bored but I'm glad he didn't head our way first! 

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