When Shannon McCarthy of Blue Ash, Ohio, was arrested last night -- after police saw her drunk and walking into oncoming traffic -- she escaped from her handcuffs. Not once. Not twice. But three times. So police tased her. (Thanks, Charles Pescovitz!)
Woman escapes handcuffs multiple times
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Don't tase her,bro.
Hey she's lucky. They might have shot her 29 times like that Haitian guy in New York. People who get tased by the police don't realize how lucky they are not to be pumped full of holes.
Yup, lucky, that's what we are.
Supervision is so much work when you can just tase them into submission.
Official report:
Small hands...smells of cabbage.