From the Daily Fail:

Caught on camera: Horrifying moment security guard Tasers mother in front of her children after row in Atlanta shopping mall

There is, to be sure, much about this video that is horrifying. The “Clockwork Orange”-esque behavior of the children. The bizarre and violent antics of the mother(s). But the actual moment when she gets enzapulated and falls over like an unbalanced lamp? The word isn’t “horrifying.” “Hilarious,” perhaps. “Overdue.” “Satisfying.” Why the Daily Fail would focus on the tasering as the actual horror, though, is beyond me.

Note: the audio is Not Safe For Work. The video as a whole is Not Safe For Americas Hopes For The Future.

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We cracked the atom, broke the sound barrier, invented computers that fit in the palm of your hand which have access to the sum total of human knowledge and wisdom… and *this* is what society has produced in its people. Aggressively entitled morons. Gah.

In case you’re curious about the origin of the video itself, it appears that the security guard in question, one Darien Long (master of restraint), wears a high def video camera on his chest. Just as dashcams are useful in Russia, chestcams would seem useful in the US. Sadly.

I’ve been to a lot of shopping malls all over the US. It has been my experience that malls that employ security guards decked out like this tend to *need* security guards like this… and tend to be malls that I never go back to, because they’re nightmares (a basic rule of thumb: guns are to get you out of trouble, not to make you think you should go somewhere where trouble will start). It seems that security guards at this mall are also in desperate need of backup. From the next day, apparently:

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Oy.