Question: What do you do if a 76-year-old driving a tractor down a country street refuses to stop when you ask him to?
Answer: Use a taser, of course!
The Associated Press reported that police in Wyoming have said that they will not lay charges against police who used a taser to “subdue” a 76-year-old man who was driving an antique tractor down a road as part of a parade.
Police said the man ignored their directions to stop until they pulled in front of him.
“[Police chief] Sweet says an officer shocked Grose with a Taser, but that failed to subdue him,” the report said.
Amy is a Sydney-based journalist and commentator with an interest in politics, music, culture and evidence-based medicine.
She is currently working as a medical journalist for a series of "Specialist Update" websites, and she has also been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey, New Matilda, and Vibewire's anthology "Interface".
She was a panelist with the Sydney Writers' Festival in 2007 and 2008, organised the Sydney Writers' Festival event "erotic fan fiction" in 2009, and is a regular broadcaster on FBi radio.