Personally, I'd Have Skipped The Taser

Wilmington, CA

The LAPD has been having a rough few days.

In the last week three officers have been involved in shootings in separate incidents. Television and action films aside, this is actually more rare than you'd think.

Officers were fired upon by murder suspect Brent Zubek in Encino, gang investigators were shot at in South L.A., and a traffic stop yesterday, also in South L.A. resulted in the shooting of an officer and large scale manhunt.

So it's perhaps understandable that trigger fingers are a little itchy.

Especially when being attacked by a screaming man with a pointed stick and the Tasers don't work.

A couple of LAPD officers heard screaming at an apartment complex in Wilmington yesterday and when they went to investigate found a man breaking out windows in a second story apartment. When they went inside the screaming man attacked them with a sharpened cane.

This is officially a Bad Idea.

When they tried to take him down with the Taser, it didn't do much.  Whether that's because it didn't do anything or they missed I can't say, he attacked them again, actually managing to stab one of them.

Surprise!  They shot him.

.40 Glock 22: 1 / Pointed Stick: 0

Showing once again why you don't go up against a technologically superior opponent with a pointed fucking stick.