{"id":142,"date":"2008-04-19T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngc2632.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-04-19T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T16:12:21","slug":"mine-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/reviews\/mine-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Mine too."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Taser shock triggers fire in man&#8217;s pants<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Hamilton Spectator<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Apr 19, 2008 Paul Morse<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>A Hamilton man Tasered by police is in hospital after the stun gun ignited a &#8220;flammable object&#8221; in his pants, burning him.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is under review by Ontario&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit, which probes all police-related deaths and serious injuries. According to the SIU, police were called to a Queenston Road apartment in Hamilton&#8217;s east end around 9 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three officers went there in response to a disturbance call,&#8221; said SIU spokesman Frank Phillips yesterday. &#8220;During the interaction, an officer discharged his Taser. A flammable object the man had in the waistband of his pants ignited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man, 31, was burned on his hand and thigh. He was taken to Hamilton General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Tasers are electrical discharge weapons that incapacitate a person by affecting the nervous system and muscle control. Hamilton police discharged their Tasers 50 times last year.<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/thespec.com\/News\/Local\/article\/356763\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>. You read it on the Internet so you know it must be true.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 2<sup>e<\/sup> out of 10.<\/p>\n<p>[*]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taser shock triggers fire in man&#8217;s pants The Hamilton Spectator Apr 19, 2008 Paul Morse A Hamilton man Tasered by police is in hospital after the stun gun ignited a &#8220;flammable object&#8221; in his pants, burning him. The incident is under review by Ontario&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit, which probes all police-related deaths and serious injuries. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-2i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}