Finally, It's Over...

From the Morning Sentinel:

WATERVILLE -- A taste for French fries cost this pig its freedom.

The Vietnamese pot-bellied pig that has been roaming the Waterville area this past month was captured Saturday on West River Road.

Waterville Police Deputy Chief Charles Rumsey said Monday that someone who had been feeding the pig French fries called police, who responded to the scene around 6 p.m.

Police then briefly stunned the gray pig with a Taser gun, then captured it with a snare pole, Rumsey said.

"We took the opportunity to deploy that Taser for a short time," he said. "The pig was not injured whatsoever. It suffered no ill effects."

Police took the pig to Donald and Judy Shores' Oak Street farm in Oakland until its owner can pick him up, Rumsey said.

Rumsey said it was important to capture the pig because it could pose a public hazard if it dashed across traffic.

"We were very concerned with it running out into the roadway and causing a traffic accident," he said.

Judy Shores said that she is keeping the pig in a cattle pen for now, hoping someone will claim him. The animal seemed no worse for the wear, she said.

"He seems to be OK," Shores said. "You can't put them pigs just anywhere because they get away."

The pig's owner sure knows that. Shores hopes the owner will step forward and claim it.
"I don't really want it," she said. "They're a nuisance. You have to have a pretty good fence for them."

Waterville homeowner Pam Hart tried to capture the pig Thursday.

Hart used cat food to lure the animal, but was unable to get close enough to grab it.

In late May, Colby College officials spotted the swine near the softball field.

Students were able to leash him, but he slipped the leash at a cookout, and had been a free-range pig from then until Saturday.


Wow, good to see those taser guns are being put to good use *insert sarcasm here*

I'm not saying call PETA over the incident, but come on, a taser to catch a pig? Talk about bringing a gun to a knife fight.

But thankfully, this story is over. We laughed, we cried, but really, we just laughed a lot.

Don’t Tase Me Bro... You're my Best Man!!!

From the Bangor Daily News:

ROCKLAND, Maine — The Attorney General’s Office is investigating an incident in which a Knox County deputy sheriff was shocked with a Taser, hogtied and paraded around downtown Camden in the back of a pickup truck last summer.



…The weekly newspaper Village Soup obtained a video that shows approximately 10 men outdoors at what is believed to be a bachelor party when the Taser is used. The groom-to-be drops to the ground and the other men bind him before covering him with oil and feathers…

Read the full story here.

I guess there are a few things to comment on this story.

1.) Wow! These guys really know how to throw a bachelor party! Obviously a trip to Vegas or a night of beer and “entertainment” of the female variety were not enough for these officers of the law.

2.) The police in question put this on video? What are they? College freshman girls who need to document all the stupid things they do when they drink? I'm surprised someone didn't find this video sooner on officers Facebook page... between their Top Friends list and Scrabolous applications.

3.) Have we learned nothing from the famous “Don’t Tase me, Bro!” video that became a YouTube phenomenon and gave University of Florida student Andrew Meyer 15 minutes of “fame" which included his own ringtone from Verizon Wireless and t-shirt from Busted Tees.

4.) This should make an interesting topic of discussion at the wedding. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the reception when the best man gives his speech. I picture a group of people booing him… followed by a rousing chant of “Yankees Suck!” (I mean we are in New England, it happens).

Bonus points for anyone who can provide a picture of somone wearing a "Don't Tase Me Bro" t-shirt outside of the Knox County Sheriffs Department.