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Written by W. Brian RousselTasering Grandma
It seems as though the world somehow got a little stranger this weekend. In case you haven’t heard, a Washington man was recently arrested for using a taser on his wife’s 79-year-old grandmother. The woman wouldn’t leave his house after an argument so Aaron de Bruyn got his taser out and gave grandma a zap to get her moving. Apparently uninjured but significantly irritated, Grandma called the police and had Aaron arrested for domestic abuse. Aaron’s wife supported the tasering and is no longer speaking with her grandmother.
What has happened to the good old days when people would just call the police on their elderly, infirm family members? Wouldn’t that have made a fine episode of Cops? Can you picture a couple uniformed policemen dragging a 79-year-old woman from a house and hauling her off to jail?
This story is wrong on so many levels; I just don’t know what to say about it. There would have been a time, not so long ago, that we would all have been shocked at the thought of a family dispute going half so far as this one went. Now, this story doesn’t shock so much as amuse us. Sure it’s a bit excessive, but we saw it coming didn’t we? Families have been going on television talk shows and fighting for our pleasure for years now. It was only a matter of time until they started tasering each other. What happened to respecting your elders? For that matter, what happened to common sense and personal dignity?
I for one would be appalled to let a family argument escalate to the point where the police needed to be called, much less to where assault was warranted. On top of that, I can’t imagine having to use a taser or any weapon to remove a 79 year old woman from my house. Unfortunately that’s our society these days and there’s probably worse to come.
The argument was over child rearing and I don’t know if Great-Grandma was right or wrong. We’ll probably never know. One thing is certain though; this child is being raised by parents who think it’s appropriate to use tasers on their grandparents. Someday we may be hearing about another de Bruyn.
What has happened to the good old days when people would just call the police on their elderly, infirm family members? Wouldn’t that have made a fine episode of Cops? Can you picture a couple uniformed policemen dragging a 79-year-old woman from a house and hauling her off to jail?
This story is wrong on so many levels; I just don’t know what to say about it. There would have been a time, not so long ago, that we would all have been shocked at the thought of a family dispute going half so far as this one went. Now, this story doesn’t shock so much as amuse us. Sure it’s a bit excessive, but we saw it coming didn’t we? Families have been going on television talk shows and fighting for our pleasure for years now. It was only a matter of time until they started tasering each other. What happened to respecting your elders? For that matter, what happened to common sense and personal dignity?
I for one would be appalled to let a family argument escalate to the point where the police needed to be called, much less to where assault was warranted. On top of that, I can’t imagine having to use a taser or any weapon to remove a 79 year old woman from my house. Unfortunately that’s our society these days and there’s probably worse to come.
The argument was over child rearing and I don’t know if Great-Grandma was right or wrong. We’ll probably never know. One thing is certain though; this child is being raised by parents who think it’s appropriate to use tasers on their grandparents. Someday we may be hearing about another de Bruyn.
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