Gardaí Use Taser Gun To Impress Girls
Posted on | April 21, 2008
An ERU officer on duty
A taser gun was used for the first time to impress girls this weekend in Limerick’s notorious Moyross estate.
Members of the Garda Emergency Response Unit (ERU) attempted to show off to female civilians by using their taser on a local teenager who had been apprehended for anti-social behaviour.
This form of stun gun fires two electrode darts into the subject. It then delivers a minor electric shock while inflicting no permanent damage on the suspect/victim.
The two Guards in question had caught the 14-year old Limerick boy in the process of spraying a wall with gang-related graffiti, when they noticed their actions were being witnessed by two local women.
According to the officers’ report, the two women were in their late teens/early 20s and were “considerably attractive”. For this reason they decided to try out their newly-issued taser on “the little gurrier” to impress the watching girls “and maybe get their numbers”.
The teenager was afterwards detained at Henry Street Garda station until he regained the use of his limbs.
ERU officers were issued with tasers last year following recommendations from some Yank copper. Since then, gardaí had found no reason use them – until Saturday.
The specialist garda team are presently stationed in Limerick in an attempt to combat the recent explosion in gang violence in and around the city’s troubled areas.
As this has been the ERU’s first assignment dealing with ordinary citizens on a long term basis, “it’s only natural that they would want to establish relations with the local female population – including sexual relations,” said Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy.
He continued: “The officers of the ERU are highly trained in specialist skills, tactics, physical fitness and of course firearms. They are also almost exclusively young and male, so it should come as no surprise to anyone that they would want to show off their equipment to female women of the opposite sex.”
The Commissioner was speaking to the press in defense of the ERU, after local people complained about their heavy-handed flirting tactics utilised in attempting to chat up the young women.
When queried on the appropriateness of garda officers mooching members of the public, Commissioner Murphy responded:
“Of course it is not standard procedure, but as individual guards will inevitably come into contact with the general public on a regular basis as part of their duties, it is naturally going to happen anyway – although we certainly don’t encourage it.
“However the situation in question happened at an unfortunate time – 10.30 of a Saturday night – when many young women are out and about dressed in provocative and revealing clothing. Our officers are only human after all…
“Maybe we should take a collective look at ourselves in this matter. What kind of a country we have become where we let our young women walk the streets at night dressed as cheap brassers, distracting our dedicated police force from doing their proper duty?” he mused.
“So in a way this is society’s fault, not mine.”
Justice Minister Brian Lenihan backed Commissioner Murphy in his comments. He also dismissed claims of cruelty on the part of the gardaí towards the teenager in question:
“What we’re dealing with here, is a community of people whose capacity for violence and depravity towards each other is unrivaled. I would think a harmless nip from a taser would be a walk in the park for a Limerick scumbag like him, don’t you?”
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