BS Detector: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...

Hmmm... Regarding that 'future-classic' taser incident where the Kamloops (BC, of course) RCMP tasered an 82-year old patient lying on his bed, breathing oxygen, and weilding a ferocious (pocket) knife. [LINK]

(Globe and Mail) - Kamloops RCMP tasered an 82-year-old man in his hospital bed last Saturday after he threatened hospital staff with a (pocket) knife. ... Kamloops RCMP told the CBC they had no other choice but to use the taser. [LINK]

My BS detector is beeping.

Here's why:

Based on the reports, it appears that the police used the taser in Drive Mode. This is the close range direct-contact mode, as opposed to firing the barbs trailing the long wires which would allow the taser to be used while standing-off at a safe distance from this blade-wielding octogenarian potential-ninja. If so, they would have had to walk up to the patient's hospital bed, within an arm's length, in order to apply the taser to the elderly man's torso.

So obviously... the officers really were frightened-to-death of the huge scary (pocket) knife. That's why they had to use the taser, because... because... because...

...It's not as if they could get close to the man, eh?

BS Detector: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...

And being delirious, the Zany Zoned-out Zorro possessed the strength of four men... (*) And since they'd only brought three officers - they were effectively outnumbered.

(*They didn't make that claim this time.)