Cranky Queenslander

With the recent death of Antonio Galeano, the mainstream press are once again promoting the idea that tasers are bad and should not be carried by Queensland Police.

The facts of this most recent case are yet to be fully confirmed, but there are suggestions that in this case the offender was subdued, handcuffed and had been talking to police before his health deteriorated and he passed away;

There is also the suggestion that the man was suicidal, had failed within 48 hours of the incident to kill himself and was in fact attempting to have the police end his life by confronting them.

As far as this case goes, I hope the police involved are cleared of any wrong doing; They have a tough job, and the sad fact is that from time to time, things are going to go pear shaped, and we shouldn’t be blaming the police for doing their best to deal with these things.

As for tasers, it is my firm belief that if we are better off giving our police the choice of using them; Lets be realistic, if a madman is weilding a weapon, and the police shoot him, he’s likely to be dead; If they can taser him, he’s likely to be alive.

Perhaps I’m missing something, feel free to leave a comment if you feel differently about tasers.

I’ve neglected this blog for a while, but in the interests of stopping the neglect, am now about to attempt to upgrade wordpress to the latest version; Once I do that of course, upgrading in future will be easier now that WordPress has built in auto upgrading;

Anyway, just thought I’d post this in case the site blows up 🙂

Update: Well, it blew up. So I’ve removed it all and started again, should be back to normal shortly.

Update2: Okay, I think thats more or less back to normal, now to go and find some stuff to be cranky about 🙂