>>Given the sort of wild and wooly culture of Alaska, I think after he tasered the kid it showed alot of restraint not to just take his piece off the board. Taser my nephew, once, and somebody pressuring your boss won't be an issue.
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>Here's a link I found about the taser incident:
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>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/05/trooper-in-palin-probe-trying-to-put-mistakes-behind-him/
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>The relevant part:
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>Speaking Thursday to CNN's Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston, Wooten gave his account of the Taser incident but denied ever drinking while driving.
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>He said that he was a new Taser instructor, and his stepson was asking him about the equipment. "I didn't shoot him with live, you know, actual live cartridge," Wooten said. Instead, he said, he hooked his stepson up to a training aid "with little clips. And you know the Taser was activated for less than a second, which would be less than what you would get if you touched an electric fence… It was as safe as I could possibly make it."
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>He said his stepson was on the living room floor surrounded by pillows, and that he "was bragging about it," and that the family laughed about it.
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>Asked whether it was a dumb decision, Wooten told CNN, "absolutely."
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>~~Bonnie

Actually, I didn't know that and that certainly does put it in a different light.

Guess it is an example of how messy divorces bring out a lot of hostility and charges that don't reflect well on anyone. Thanks for the link.