[il-talk] Fwd: BBC News - Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

[Glenn]

If they had been blind ott, they'd have known better. I think this particular one says more about hypervigelence in the ranks of bobbies than it may about their awareness of blind culture.
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J Rauschenbach <rauschjc at gmail.com> wrote:

>It is clear that the police officer must also be blind.
>DUH!
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>From: il-talk [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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>Subject: [il-talk] Fwd: BBC News - Police use Taser on
>blind man after stick mistaken for sword
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>Let's hear it for our civil friends in the UK. Didn't the
>police wonder why he was rubbing the sword tip on the
>ground?
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>Bill
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>BBC News - Police use Taser on blind man after stick
>mistaken for sword
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>Date: 
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>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:18:00 -0500
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>From: 
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>Bruce Reif  <mailto:btreif at gmail.com> <btreif at gmail.com>
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>To: 
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>William Reif  <mailto:billreif at ameritech.net>
><billreif at ameritech.net>
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>Yeah, this is not the onion.
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>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19979184
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