Re: [CH] From This Morning's New Zealand Herald.
Linda Reynolds (lr21@cornell.edu)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:54:51 -0500
>Hi All,
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>A bit of New Zealand Chile News....
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>New Zealand Herald - Front Page - Wednesday, January 28th, 98
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>Let us Spray - Police Cop an arresting Taste
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>(Photograph of Policeman kneeling with head in a bucket of water)
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>Caption: This bucket of water was a sight for sore eyes for Constable John
>Burton yesterday after he had a taste of pepper spray. Twenty police
>officers from Wellington volunteered for an eyeful of the potent oleoresin
>capsicum spray, which one said felt as if "someone has put a hot poker in
>your eye."
.......I just heard on the radio yesterday that there is some bill that is
trying to get passed (not sure if it's state or federal wide) to make using
pepper spray on a police ossifer (you being the bad guy and he not
volunteering) would become a felony. They certainly have no sense of
humor......I wonder if we would get thrown in the clinck if (like in one
guys story a few months or more ago) if they pulled you over and asked to
sniff your vile of substance, and found it to be pepper powder???? Yikes,
possession could be dangerous?
Linda