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The Smithfield, Ohio, police department has placed a school resource officer on unpaid leave for using a Taser to wake a high school student sleeping in class. Maryssa Boskoski arced the Taser a few feet from the student. Police Chief Howard Funk says the Taser did not make contact with the student, but it was still a violation of the department's Taser policy.

Comments

[Rat on a train]

Official policy requires batons for sleeping students.

[MSimon]

Injections of cocaine also work.

[Rat on a train]

Paying customers only.

[Wizard4169]

The first taste is free. (But only the first.)

[Fist of Etiquette]

Actual tasing gets you paid leave.

[TonyT]

They probably would have given him a medal. It's clear that the "IMPROPER USE" is the issue.

[Radioactive]

well at least there's a policy, can't have anyone running around tasering helter skelter or worse willy nilly or god forbid higgily piggily

[Agammamon]

"higgledy-piggledy"!

[Radioactive]

or that either!!! (almost typed in piggly wiggly, HA)

[Jerryskids]

Somebody who thinks a taser is a toy is exactly the sort of person I want walking around with a gun and a badge, they're clearly a trustworthy, responsible person.

[Rockabilly]

I went to a catholic school; for the crime of sleeping in class, I was beaten with a stick and once a nun had the janitor, who was pretty much always drunk, shake me in front of the class. I was all shook up but not tasered, it was old school Catholic punishment, swift, brutal, and done in public

[Longtobefree]

Did you sleep in class again?
(Asking for a friend)

[Juice]

I didn't survive one year in Catholic school. I got kicked out in 1st grade. I just couldn't stop asking questions or "debating" the nuns about what they were teaching and was continuously punished for it, but I never stopped. I just had a thirst for knowledge but was also a little skeptic and that was unacceptable there.

[Robert]

What's a cop doing in a classroom? I could understand if so much was going on that was illegal there, or if riots were threatening to break out, but as a routine? Of course you put a cop there, nothing to do, he's going to get bored & do shit like this.

[Don't look at me.]

BZZZZT!

[Gindjurra]

Tasers are between baton and gun on the force spectrum. Discharging a taser next to someone to wake them up is more extreme than slamming a baton on the desk next to their head, but less extreme than firing a round or two into the ceiling or floor with your sidearm so the noise will wake someone up. But only barely.

[macsnafu]

The proper way to wake a sleeping student is to slap them with a wooden ruler or yardstick!