It appears that a man in hospital in Kamloops, B.C., one Frank Lasser, age 82, was disoriented while being treated for pneumonia and and pulled a pocket knife from his pocket. The Mounties were summoned, and they promptly tazed him three times.

“I was laying on the bed by then and the corporal came in, or the sergeant, I forget which it was, and said to the guys, ‘OK, get him because we got more important work to do on the street tonight,'” Lasser said.

They tazed him because they had a crowded schedule.

Un-dirtyword-believable.

Tazers are being abused, and they need to be explicitly classified as lethal weapons under the law.