More weapons grade stoopidity in Florida! Taze your kids at work day!

I'd post this in LBN, but it happened last week. The asshole was fired yesterday.

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Corrections sergeant shocks kids with stun gun during prison visit

By Meg Laughlin, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, May 2, 2009

It was "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" at the Franklin Correctional Institution, and Sgt. Walter Schmidt wanted to give the kids an idea of what their parents do.

So he took out a handheld stun device and zapped them with 50,000 volts of electricity.

The children, whose ages are not available, reportedly yelped in pain, fell to the ground and grabbed red burn marks on their arms. One was taken to a nearby hospital.

DOC spokeswoman Jo Ellyn Rackleff said in an e-mail, "We believe that a number of children may have received a shock."

Schmidt, the arsenal sergeant at the Panhandle prison, said he asked parents for permission to shock the kids.

"When they said 'sure,' I went ahead and did it," he said by phone Friday.

Three days after the April 24 incident, Warden Duffie Harrison wrote Schmidt that his "retention would be detrimental to the best interests of the state" because he had "engaged in inappropriate conduct while demonstrating weapons … to several kids during a special event at the institution.''

(more) http://www.tampabay.com/news/article997379.ece

Isn't there a screening process to keep out idiots like this?

Like Michael Westen says in Burn Notice, "You've got some staffing issues."

they are equally, if not more stupid. It was their children.

Fired my ass, he ought to be in the Crossbar Hilton.

Sure thang Walter. Mebbe we should let 'em hold our lunches to sees iffin mebbe they can warm 'em up at the same time. Nyuk.


:banghead:

Florida needs a better PR department.