Had to happen eventually: first Taser "shootout"

[n2doc]

2 Colo. men exchange Taser shots over parked van
By Associated Press
11:45 PM CDT, May 18, 2008

BOULDER, Colo. - It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking.

Officers said neither man needed medical attention after the Saturday confrontation, but Harvey Epstein, co-owner of Mamacitas restaurant, was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing and using a stun gun.

A police report said Epstein and Casey M. Dane, a supervisor for Colorado Security Services Inc., were arguing over a metal boot that one of Dane's guards had clamped on a wheel of a van parked behind Mamacitas.

Dane told police he was afraid Epstein was going to hit him with a 2-foot-long pair of bolt cutters. Epstein told police he had only tried to remove the boot with the bolt cutters and hadn't threatened anyone with them.

more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR2008051801672.html

[alphafemale]

1. This sounds like a comedy sketch.

:rofl:

[LiberalFighter]

2. Perfect... Everyone shooting everyone with tasers.

[Javaman]

3. Dueling morons. nt

[uppityperson]

4. k&r for taser shoot outs. Good thing both had tasers.

Just think, if everyone had tasers, they could've taken these 2 down before any innocent bystanders were harmed. Oh, wait,...never mind.

[pleah]

5. This appeared in the News of the Weird section of our paper today.

Yep! Had to happen sometime.

:crazy:

[ZombieHorde]

6. A taser shootout is better than a firearm shootout. nt