Vancouver transit riders tasered for not paying fares

This is getting friggin out of hand … It’s a darn ticket, don’t they have car thieves and murderers to catch? They could tase them at will if it was just for me. But here, …

VANCOUVER — The country’s only armed transit police have been tasering passengers who try to avoid paying fares.

According to documents provided in response to a Freedom of Information request, police patrolling public transit in the Metro Vancouver area have used tasers 10 times in the past 18 months, including five occasions when victims had been accosted for riding free.

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(Full Article: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2008/160408_b_Vancouver.htm)