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Think twice before complaining on your next Korean Air flight - flight crew can now use Tasers to deal with mid-air disturbances. The airline has made the decision to loosen its Taser usage policy after a violent incident on a flight last week resulted in 80s pop star Richard Marx having to subdue an unruly passenger.
On-board crew already have had Tasers on hand for years but could only use them when lives or the physical safety of passengers and cabin crew was threatened. But new rules will allow for "more active use" of Tasers, a Korean Air spokesperson told CNN.
Source: CNN
Also at The Independent
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Korean Air Has Given Flight Attendants the Green Light to Use Tasers on Unruly Passengers
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday December 30 2016, @05:07PM
Every day it seems we read of a new event, usually small and rather unimportant if read in isolation, that point toward a return to sanity. Now we see an airline facing the reality that cute flight attendants can't deal with some rowdy passengers and there isn't always going to be an aging pop star handy. Just saying something like that triggers so many delicate snowflakes to their safe spaces, on so many levels and for a multitude of reasons. But still KAL did it anyway. Like I said, a small thing but somewhere in Korea is a leader who didn't just issue another memo about renewing a commitment to .......[blah blah blah fucking blah] and actually took action aimed at solving a problem for a change.
Slowly, with baby steps, in fits and starts, we are slowly realizing something momentous. The Politically Correct harpies and all shriek and no real bite. We let them rule us based on bluster and lies, and all we have to do to regain a sane world again is let our balls drop back down and tell them NO. This realization is spreading around the world, taking slightly differing forms based on the random nature of where the first pushback occurs.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by urza9814 on Friday December 30 2016, @05:53PM
Tasers are a potentially lethal weapon. You really think it's acceptable to kill someone when that person is not in any way a risk to anyone's safety but is merely an annoyance?
Sooner or later they're going to be looking at a very long and expensive lawsuit over this policy...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:30AM
I think universities should be allowed to use tasers on SJWs.