Simultaneous Tasing
May 21, 2008
I know the story about the two guys using Tasers on each other happened last weekend in Boulder, Colo., but I still can’t get over it. In case you haven’t heard: Casey Dane, a private security guard, and Harvey Epstein, a restaurant owner, zapped each other Saturday night in a dispute over an illegally parked car with a “boot” on its tire.
On Monday, Epstein told The Daily Camera in Boulder that he only pulled out his Taser after Dane pointed his Taser at Epstein’s mother. Dane told police he only pulled out his Taser after Epstein held bolt cutters above his head in a “threatening manner,” according to the story. Epstein was arrested but has not been charged, according to the story
The lesson, as with many other dumb criminal stories, is that men are dopes. The moment I heard the phrase “simultaneous Tasing” I knew it was not going to be two women involved. I’ll bet if I asked 100 people to complete the headline “Two _________ use Tasers on each other” with either “men” or “women,” all 100 would choose men.
There’s a reason the phrase is “Don’t Tase me bro!”, not “Don’t Tase me sis!”
DANNY JACOBS, Legal Affairs Writer
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