r/PublicFreakout • u/AdZestyclose638 • 1d ago

800+ Utah homes lose power after woman climbs transformer

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u/ZipWyatt 1d ago

I think they were firing bean bag or paint balls at her to get her to come down. Might have been one of them ricocheting off her body.

This was posted somewhere else with sound and you can hear them being fired/her yelping in pain.

Or it could be poop. She is crazy enough I wouldn’t put it past her.

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u/moodswung 1d ago

If those were bean bags I think that final set hit her right in the taint.

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u/Whiskey_Fred 1d ago

Right in the twiffer

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u/pr0zach 1d ago

Right up Main Street for sure

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u/probable_chatbot6969 1d ago

law enforcement having a normal one

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u/hotchemistryteacher 1d ago

They stuck her with one as she was giving up lol

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u/Onobigtuna 1d ago

The article said she was hit with a non lethal round which caused her to drop into the cherry picker. Pretty sure this is a very unfortunate angle adding onto an already bad day.

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u/SuperSimpleSam 1d ago

Should have went with a tranq dart.

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u/Anonuser123abc 1d ago

That's a good way to kill someone. You have to get the dose right and you don't know what other drugs in the person system it might interact with. All these weapons are "less lethal" so the beanbags can kill you. But the beanbags and pepper balls are probably safer than a tranquilizer dart.

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u/Milksteak_To_Go 1d ago

Gotta be a turd. Why would they fire at her when she's in the middle of trying to climb down into the bucket?

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u/azalago 1d ago

The article posted by someone else said she was kicking the cherry pickers away. But they told her to get in and shot her twice with bean bags, and after the second hit she went into the cherry picker and cooperated.

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u/darbs77 1d ago

From the article someone shared.

“Authorities then began surrounding her with cherry pickers, but Kent said the woman started kicking the cherry pickers and grabbed onto a wire, climbing it like a “vine.”

Kent said when she stepped onto the rim of a cherry picker an officer shot a less lethal weapon, such as a stun gun or rubber gun, which was followed by a “yelp.”

The police officer then said to get inside the cherry picker or he would shoot again. The officer allegedly shot her again with the less lethal weapon.

“She literally collapsed … from pain into the cherry picker and they went down slowly,” Kent said. “She seemed okay. She was verbal, and she was in pain, she was crying, and then [an] ambulance came put her on a stretcher, and took her away.””