<p>Well, UF just got itself a great Tshirt</p>
<p>UF (front)
Don't Tase Me Bro! (back)</p>
<p>I know if I were out of control, I would rather the police beat me senseless with batons, break my arm, or shoot me with a .357 any day--anything rather than being tased. I hear you can pretty much get up and walk away unharmed after being tased. What's up with that?</p>
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<p>Well when you get tased, the current overloads your nervous system causing neurotransmitters (ACh) to be released and causing other stuff to happen (not sure if you want the details. Basically it prevents the synapses from repolarizing and transporting back the Ca+2 in the SR (look up tetanus, not the disease) b/c of the constant stimulation and causing temporary paralysis.</p>
<p>Well, Don't tase me bro! has become a global sensation!!!!!! Another proud moment for the University of Florida. Where is SSbick? She is needed fast with some of her self praising threads to try to defuse this situation!!</p>
<p>This link from Australia!!</p>
<p>I heard UM made a shirt too</p>
<p>Front: I <3 making poor choices
Back: I'm paying $1,200 per credit to go to a second place school</p>
<p>Well....here comes vincanity with a very ineffective rescue,,,,,,LOL</p>
<p>Hey vincanity....think about it this way. The University of Florida has really become well known now.......You guys do not need that dubious chinese world ranking of universities anymore in order to gain international reputation . THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS OF YOU NOW!!!</p>
<p>and please......Don't tase me bro!!!!</p>
<p>ASMAJ, of course you know I was trying to be funny. My point was there are far worse ways to subdue someone than tasing. Typically the tased person ends up completely unharmed, as was the case with Meyer. </p>
<p>I know there are reports on the web of as many as 150 people dying from tasers, but I wonder if anyone knows how many lives have been saved. This reminds me of the critics of auto air bags. Critics focus on the relatively few people who get injured or die from air bags and conveniently ignore the much larger number of people whose lives were spared.</p>
<p>LMAO!!! There is SSbick!!! You go girl!!</p>
<p>LOLz empty trash talking online</p>
<p>ps. rescue from what?</p>
<p>I can't believe this one .. makes me laugh my arse off .. <a href="http://www.dont-taze-me-bro.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.dont-taze-me-bro.com</a></p>
<p>I am telling you...not even Harvard is going to be this famous after Meyer;s stunt.</p>
<p>It's weak in comparison to the Miami-FIU brawl:</p>
<p>^^^^ Do not try to spin this. This is about the University of Florida.</p>
<p>Perhaps some of you do not realize the international outrage about what happened at UF. From an american perspective, Meyer may have gotten what he deserved from being disrespectful and behaving like a jerk at the conference. Regardless, the excessive use of force and the behavior of the police officers is what has really come into question globally. For those of you who dare venture outside this forum, the term "fascist" is being entertained. This is being discussed by high school students across the nation and .....beyond.</p>
<p>Americans who do not understand how out of line the University of Florida Police Officers were, are really out of touch with what's happening internationally and with the stereotypes and perception that such behavior is reinforcing about how we americans are perceived in the global arena.</p>
<p>The President of UF was deeply embarrassed and showed it with his statement. It behooves all students ( especially UF students ) to be a little more tuned to that......no matter what an ass Meyer might have been.</p>
<p>Stop your trolling for once SSbick and try to get with the program.</p>
<p>The Miami-FIU brawl, a bench-clearing brawl between two college football teams, occurred on October 14, 2006 in a college football game between the University of Miami Hurricanes and the Florida International University Golden Panthers at the Orange Bowl stadium in Miami, Florida. </p>
<p>*The Brawl</p>
<p>Throughout the game, players from both teams engaged in trash-talk and were increasingly physical. After seven penalties (six for FIU and one for Miami) had already been recorded in the game with 9 minutes left in the 3rd quarter, Miami H-back James Bryant caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Kyle Wright, making the score 13-0 Miami. After scoring, Bryant pointed at the FIU bench and bowed to the crowd. Bryant, who later transferred to the University of Louisville, was called for unsportsmanlike conduct.</p>
<p>The fight began when FIU players Chris Smith and Marshall McDuffie, Jr. attacked Miami holder Matt Perrelli during the ensuing PAT attempt. Smith wrestled Perelli to the ground after the kick and appeared to punch him in the chin, as McDuffie kicked Perelli in the head. Miami players, including Calais Campbell, came to Perelli's defense, separating Miami and FIU players. FIU's Lionel Singleton punched Campbell in the back of the helmet, which was quickly followed by retaliation from both teams, escalating the fight to a bench-clearing brawl. Miami's Anthony Reddick swung his helmet at FIU players and Miami's Brandon Meriweather kicked an FIU player. FIU's A'Mod Ned, who was injured, came onto the field and swung at Miami players with his crutches.</p>
<p>Miami-Dade County police assisted in restoring order to the field.</p>
<p>Ultimately, both teams were assessed 15-yard penalties for unsporsmanlike conduct and 13 players were ejected from the game (eight from FIU and five from Miami). Although the unsporsmanlike conduct penalties for fighting offset each other, Miami was forced to kick off from its own 10-yard line due to the celebration penalty against Bryant (penalized at half the distance to the goal).</p>
<p>Former Miami wide receiver Lamar Thomas, who was broadcasting the game for Comcast Sports Southeast, made several controversial comments during the scuffle, including:</p>
<p>"Now, that's what I'm talking about! You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked. You do not come into the [Orange Bowl] playing that stuff. You're across the ocean over there. You're across the city. You cannot come over to our place talking noise like that. You will get your butt beat. I was about to go down the elevator to get in that thing."</p>
<p>*The Aftermath</p>
<p>The incident won almost instant condemnation from all sides. FIU coach Don Strock said he was "embarrassed" for what happened, and said that he would impose sanctions even more severe than any imposed by the Sun Belt Conference. Miami's Larry Coker was "shocked and angered" by the brawl.</p>
<p>The next day, 31 players from both schools 18 from FIU, 13 from Miami were handed one-game suspensions.</p>
<p>Additionally, Coker suspended Bryant, Merriweather and Reddick indefinitely and announced that the other players would have to complete community service and sit out the next game, against Duke. The school also enacted a "zero tolerance" policy for future incidents: any Hurricane involved in a fight will be suspended for the remainder of the season, and could face permanent banishment from the team. University president Donna Shalala announced that the other 12 players would not face additional suspensions. She also said that Coker would not be fired.</p>
<p>FIU's Chris Smith and McDuffie were kicked off the football team (though they were allowed to keep their scholarships), and remaining players were suspended indefinitely. FIU also placed the suspended players on probation for the remainder of the year, who were also required to complete 10 hours of anger management counseling and 50 hours of community service [citation needed].</p>
<p>Thomas was fired by CSS, and the network edited out his comments when it rebroadcasted the game on October 18. Later in the day, he told ESPN Radio's Dan Patrick that he had gotten carried away in the moment.</p>
<p>Some critics thought Miami's sanctions were too lenient. ESPN Radio's Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic thought that they should be suspended even longer than one game. ESPN.com's Gene Wojciechowski called the one-game suspensions "a soothing caress and manicure", suggested that Coker should be fired, and called for Miami to wipe the game from its records. </p>
<p>Larry Coker also came under fire for some of his comments after the incident. "I think that it will affect the image of our program greatly, but in a positive way," he said. "I think that when they see the video and they see how it was handled they will be impressed with our players." Additionally, he was quoted in the Miami Herald as saying "I think you've got a lot of players from their team frustrated because they're not here, and maybe were not recruited." His handling of the incident contributed to speculation that he would not return in 2007, Shalala's vote of confidence notwithstanding.Coker was in fact fired at the end of the season.</p>
<p>UF had a tremendously bad publicity event, and so did the University of Miami. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Actually people really enjoy my perspective about UF, whereas your are just a UM Troll who feels the need to bash this institution in hopes that it might persuade Floridians to choose your overpriced college over the better in-state rival. Sorry, your motives are as clear as day.</p>
<p>I am just glad that Meyer is not black and the shooter is not a white man. Can you imagine the firestorm that would have erupted if that were the case?</p>
<p>Lol get with the program SSobick</p>
<p>I know, he is a cocky little Socialist.</p>
<p>Woman Held in Airport Bomb Hoax</p>
<p>BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Massachusetts State Police arrested a 19-year-old MIT student Friday at Boston's Logan International Airport after receiving a report that a woman had what appeared to be a bomb strapped to her chest.</p>
<p>The woman arrested at the Boston airport was identified as Star Simpson, an MIT student.</p>
<p>Authorities said the device proved to be fake.</p>
<p>Star Simpson, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was charged with disorderly conduct and carrying a hoax device.</p>
<p>Simpson was arraigned later Friday in Boston Municipal Court. District Court Judge Paul Mahoney set bail at $750 and ordered her to return to court on October 29 for a pretrial hearing. </p>
<p>Authorities called to the scene saw a woman on a street outside the airport's Terminal C.</p>
<p>She was told to stop, raise her hands and make no movements, and she followed those directions, said Maj. Scott Pare, the airport commanding officer for the Massachusetts State Police.</p>
<p>"It's good that she responded," he said. "She's lucky she's in a jail cell rather than the morgue." </p>
<p>Pare said officers with automatic weapons had been called to the scene.</p>
<p>The woman described the fake device as "art" that she was proud of and wanted to display, Pare said.</p>
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<p>I like the part about "It's good that she responded," he said. "She's lucky she's in a jail cell rather than the morgue." </p>
<p>-FB</p>