In message , John Smith
writes
On 9/3/2010 10:54 AM, Art Unwin wrote:

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No. I turned the "truth" into a "joke". The same as others did with my
antenna design where they turned it into a massive joke so that they
could apply judgement with a lazer for laughs and nothing being meant
to hurt me as a person.
Lets move on

Darnit man! And, you notice, we have been treating your little joke so
seriously. You know that makes me feel like an idiot, don't cha'?
blank look

Unfortunately, reports of such incidents are eminently believable. In
the UK, the police are as trigger-happy as in the USA. They twice
tasered one guy sitting in a bus, because he failed to respond to them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...diabetic-coma-
Taser--thought-suicide-bomber.html

And it appears that it's not just in the UK!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06...teic_tasering/
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Ian