Via  Turley, who apparently has a keen eye on the doings of our neighbors to the north, comes this story from the  Globe and Mail about how kinder, gentler Canadians deal with fare-beaters.  Zap.

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.

Before all you crazy libs get all up in arms about this, it’s not like they tase the deadbeats straight away. 

“After several warnings to the subject to stop resisting arrest and the subject failing to comply with the officers’ commands, the taser was deployed and the subject was taken into control,” said the report provided by TransLink, the region’s transit authority.

See?  They failed to comply with the officers’ commands.  You don’t want to be tased?  Then don’t fail to comply.  It’s not brain surgery, you know.

But naturally, the hearts that bleed maple syrup are all bent out of shape.

On the face of it, the use of tasers by transit police here is far outside guidelines that say they should be used only if someone is suicidal, violent or about to injure himself or someone else, Mr. Dosanjh said.

“Their current use is absolutely inappropriate,” he said, adding that the latest revelations, coming after a storm of recent controversy over taser use by regular police forces across the country, have brought him close to calling for a moratorium on the powerful stun guns.

Guidelines?  We don’t need no stinkin’ guidelines.  Here’s the guidelines, you lily-livered deadbeat lovers:  Do as your told or suffer the consequences.  Since when do perps get to decide whether they feel like listening to a command by a cop?  If they say “jump”, you say “how high?”

And what does the Big Guy in charge of the transit police in Vancouver have to say, sitting atop his horse looking like Dudley Doright?

Yesterday, the head of the RCMP admitted the police force did not do a good job making information public about taser use, and vowed that changes will be made.

“Frankly we did not handle this matter very well,” Commissioner William Elliott told the Canadian Club of Ottawa. “We should not have needed two kicks at the can. We must learn from that and do better.”

Terrific.  Even the main mountie turns out to be an apologist for teaching these mutts a decent etiquette lesson.  Canada.  Feh.