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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @03:14AM
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Bitch.
(Score: 2) by deadstick on Friday December 30 2016, @03:22AM
You don't tug on Superman's cape...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:39AM
Johnny Bravo, is that you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @03:31AM
I bet someone at United Airlines just perked up at the idea of using TASERs on passengers. Why stop at destroying their instruments and baking their pets in the hot sun?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:25AM
Plus a taser fee.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @03:11PM
That would be Spirit Airlines.
And American would at least waive the fee if you were an AAdvantage member.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Friday December 30 2016, @03:42AM
what is it with korea? I just don't trust them when they want to employ *more* use of high voltage and current on the populace.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @03:43AM
That's a band name.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @03:48AM
No, seriously, don't.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:02AM
Some fucking feminist cunt used men's tech.
Who gives a shit.
She's opposed to men taking female children as brides. Should be removed.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:01AM
Some sucking MRA looser male guy used tech.
Who gives a shit.
He's opposed to women taking male children as boytoys. Should be promoted, modded up, and given the opportunity to spank the MikeeUSA, except that he would enjoy it too much. Only cure for Mikee, make him marry a real woman, one 20 years older than him, to teach him how to behave. Or, we cut off his johnson, Lebowski!!
(Score: 3, Funny) by slash2phar on Friday December 30 2016, @04:22AM
What was wrong with the current policy of having Richard Marx on board for dealing with unruly passengers?
I say they should expand the program to include Rick Astley and Mr Mister.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 30 2016, @04:48AM
That's not gonna roll, because... [goo.gl] (link is family and office friendly).
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @12:21PM
I bet the unruly passenger knew too much, maybe he knew "she wasn't left safe and sound by the river", so Mr. Marx has to take some measures to ensure the passenger won't spill what he knew.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:32AM
Google produced this:
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pad/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=207916 [koreatimes.co.kr]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @03:18PM
I am of the right age to be very well aware of all the 80s "pop icons", but I swear I cannot place Marx. I've popped up a couple of his videos and still draw a blank. Probably because he sounds like I remember Bryan Adams sounding.
Meh. Call me back when it is a real 80s star, like Gary Numan.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:43AM
Some fucking feminist cunt used men's tech.
Who gives a shit.
She's opposed to men taking female children as brides. Should be removed.
.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday December 30 2016, @04:56AM
You hear a lot of people getting escorted off planes for tantrums and actual attacks, but you never hear what becomes of them. Truth is, its usually nothing, not even a fine. They get a talk, and then they walk. Maybe banned by that airline for a while. Ohhh Scary.
There's probably no other single place where people can't just run away from the unruly assholes, so maybe a few volts would be the best solution. Left alone the ragers would see they are getting away with anything they want and pretty soon they'd own the plane.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:09AM
Just wait until a clever passenger (maybe one with some martial arts training?) manages to get the tazer away from the crew member. Seems like it would cause all kinds of havoc if applied to the aircraft electrical system...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:24AM
Easy fix - just replace tasers with combat knives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:47AM
Box cutters?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:49AM
Unless the crew have combat knife training, it's the same problem -- a passenger could easily be quicker and in better practice than the crew member.
(Score: 2, Funny) by butthurt on Friday December 30 2016, @06:43AM
While not at all sporting, a rule could perhaps be made forbidding passengers from unsheathing their swords during flights.
This being Korean Air Lines, it's safe to assume that the crew are superbly trained in a variety of martial arts.
(Score: 2) by Username on Friday December 30 2016, @09:32AM
They’re not that dangerous or damaging. Tazers and stunguns in general only work if the current goes through the heart. Otherwise it’s just a minor annoyance. The barbs do more damage.
I doubt they would do anything to an aircraft electrical system. Most likely the aircraft would shock you, instead of you shocking it.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:15PM
No, that is exactly the scenario that makes them dangerous. They are designed and meant to be used such that the current *doesn't* go through the heart.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @06:36PM
My Taser has a wrist strap with an enabling plug. Take the Taser out of my hand and it won't work.
(Score: 1) by Type44Q on Friday December 30 2016, @10:20PM
but you never hear what becomes of them
You just have to know where to look [soylent.com].
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Entropy on Friday December 30 2016, @09:16AM
The old policy allowed zapping someone when physical safety was at risk. The new policy zaps people when no one's safety is at risk? Sounds like something that would be illegal, honestly.
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @01:06AM
Hold on, tasers aren't legal in all countries. Does some law allow airlines to carry weapons on flights into jurisdictions where they're prohibited?
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Tuesday January 03 2017, @03:00PM
This seems like a fantastic way of dealing with unruly children kicking the back of my seat.