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'Taser Bachelor Party' Draws Discipline For Deputies

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In August 2007 at a bachelor party for Welch, the bachelor was shot with a Taser, handcuffed, hog-tied with duct tape, oiled and feathered, and paraded through downtown Camden strapped to a lawn chair on the back of a flatbed truck.

Many of the partiers seen in the video were Knox County detectives, sergeants and deputies. Camden Police Chief Phil Roberts saw the flatbed truck drive through town the night of the bachelor party.

According to a Maine law enacted by the Legislature in 2005, using an electronic weapon on anyone is a Class D crime, which is a misdemeanor, unless its use is by a law enforcement officer in an official capacity or in official training.

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Well, I have to say this is a different twist to the normal taser abuse stories we see on a regular basis...This time it's cops using tasers on their own which seems to have gotten them in trouble. This is like something straight out of MTV's "Jack-ass". lol

These devices are capable of stopping a person's heart-They are not some cutesy little toy to gamble with trying to be "funny". Unfortunately, many don't seem to understand that concept...

In that report, District Attorney Geoffrey Rushlau closed his findings with a statement: "Electronic weapons such as Tasers should be used only as a last resort and never casually or in fun."

Before the attorney general's and district attorney's findings were announced, Lincoln County officials received information suggesting that one of their sheriff's sergeants had loaned the Taser used at the bachelor party to a Knox County deputy. Knox County does not have Tasers.

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