{"id":460,"date":"2008-05-21T23:59:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T06:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/460\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T12:16:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T19:16:34","slug":"460","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/21\/460\/","title":{"rendered":"Boneheads With Occasionally Lethal Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/may\/19\/taser.fight?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=networkfront\" target=\"_blank\">from the UK Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>&#8216;Boneheads&#8217; shoot each other with Tasers in fight over wheel clamp<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 12px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 47px; padding-top: 0px; font-size: 9pt; margin-bottom: 10pt\" class=\"article-attributes no-pic\">\n<li style=\"overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/anildawar\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: black; background-color: white; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={articleByline}{Anil Dawar}&amp;lpos={articleByline}{1}\" title=\"&amp;lid={articleByline}{Anil Dawar}&amp;lpos={articleByline}{1}\">Anil Dawar<\/a>\u00a0and agencies<\/li>\n<li style=\"overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"publication\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: black; background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={articleByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={articleByline}{2}\" title=\"&amp;lid={articleByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={articleByline}{2}\">guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/framed.typepad.com\/framed\/images\/2007\/05\/30\/taser.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"183\" width=\"280\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Taser\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Harvey Epstein, a restaurateur, and Casey Dane, a security supervisor, gave each other a simultaneous 50,000-volt jolt after an argument over the clamping of Epstein&#8217;s van spiralled out of control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Colorado state police said neither man needed medical attention, but Epstein was arrested on suspicion of menacing and using a stun gun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">The incident happened on Saturday night outside Mamacita&#8217;s Restaurant in Boulder, Colorado after a van parked behind Epstein&#8217;s restaurant was clamped by a guard working for a security firm of which Dane is a supervisor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Dane said Epstein, whose mother was with him, had tried to remove the clamp with bolt cutters and threatened a guard that he would &#8220;kick his ass&#8221; while holding a pair of bolt cutters above the guard&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/indymedia.org.nz\/usermedia\/image\/11\/1_logo.gif\" alt=\"Stop Stop the Taser\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">The 36-year-old restaurateur denied this, saying it all started when Dane put his hand on a holstered pistol and threatened to shoot him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">He claimed to have only drawn his Taser and fired after Dane aimed his own Taser at his mother&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">&#8220;(The guard) pointed a stun gun at my mother&#8217;s face and I immediately responded with my personal Taser,&#8221; Epstein told his local paper, the Camera, on Sunday evening within an hour of being released from Boulder county jail. &#8220;We shot each other at the same moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Dane told police he reached for his Taser after Epstein refused to drop the bolt cutters, and only pointed the Taser at the woman after she picked up her son&#8217;s stun gun, which still had its probes buried in his skin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Pat Wyton, a Boulder police sergeant, told the paper: &#8220;It was just kind of a bonehead deal. They shot each other.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px\">&#8220;The security guard was in the right &#8211; he felt threatened.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/may\/19\/taser.fight?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=networkfront\" target=\"_blank\">click to read article at the Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the UK Guardian &#8216;Boneheads&#8217; shoot each other with Tasers in fight over wheel clamp Anil Dawar\u00a0and agencies guardian.co.uk Harvey Epstein, a restaurateur, and Casey Dane, a security supervisor, gave each other a simultaneous 50,000-volt jolt after an argument over the clamping of Epstein&#8217;s van spiralled out of control. 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