The proper way to get tazed...

[Goofball]

Oh, this gets a big

Tortured? The only reason that happened was because the kid was acting like a moron and screaming while resisting arrest (I don't even think they were arresting him) to get attention.

I hardly consider a tazer torture.

Sorry, what would you call being held down and having 50,000 volts of electricity passed through your body?

[Ice]

Sorry, what would you call being held down and having 50,000 volts of electricity passed through your body?

A electrical shock from a tazer?

[Devastatin Dave]

Sorry, what would you call being held down and having 50,000 volts of electricity passed through your body?

My usual Friday night at the local truck stop...

[Husar]

I agree with CR and Goofball.

Yes, he should have stepped down though maybe not if Kerry wanted to answer his questions anyway.

No, he shouldn't have behaved as silly as that.

But no, the police shouldn't have tazered him either, looks like a typical case of police not using their "non-lethal weapons" correctly. There were five or six policemen around him and he wasn't even able to resist one or two of them so using a tazer was completely superfluous and just added to their comfort and their feeling of superiority.

They should have restrained him and carried him away, or just let Kerry answer his questions in the first place and resolved the whole thing without a tazer.

[Papewaio]

Compare and contrast that to this event in Australia:

Chaser antics rate well in the cells

The Chaser boys may have the Police Commissioner threatening to throw the book at them, however some of their arresting officers were more star struck than stern.

Sources close to the production told me that after they were arrested for the infamous fake Canadian motorcade incident, the Chaser 11 were taken to Sydney Central police station where they certainly felt the long arm of the law - around their waists! A police officer posed in the cell with them for a photo and other officers asked for autographs.

The cheeky and completely arresting, or should that be arrested, executive producer of the show, Julian Morrow, confirmed the happy snaps took place."It's fair to say there were a few police on duty who watched the show," he said.

"We thought the way the police treated us was exceptional. I've had worse service in most restaurants in Sydney."

The 10 men and one woman involved in the stunt were put into a large cell but the door was left wide open. The mood was buoyant with one officer laughing that "it was a good dry run for when we have real criminals to deal with".

"They better be careful, Sydney Central police station might get a reputation as a good place to stay," Morrow quipped.