I'm not in favor of tasers being used on pregnant women at all, but I'm also quite opposed to pregnant women using handicapped parking spaces when they are technically not handicapped. No, pregnancy is not a handicap. It might feel that way on your crappiest, back-achy, swollen ankle days, but no -- it is not a disabling condition that entitles you to special accommodations, nor is it even a privilege. From the way it sounds, 30-year-old Tiffany Rent really brought the situation outside a Chicago Walgreens that led to cops tasering her chest on herself, sorry to say.
Just guessing what happened here. Rent had two kids in the car, a 9-year-old and 3-year-old, that she could simply not leave alone while she ran into the drug store for lord-knows-what. So she parked in the blue outlined section that was probably closer to the door so she could keep an eye on her kids while she ran in and out. Guilty myself of leaving the kids for just a minute to grab something, but never using a handicapped spot. Having family members who genuinely need those spots, that irks me beyond anything. It's lazy, inconsiderate, and illegal.
Cops were only doing their job trying to ticket Rent for parking illegally, and even warned her they were going to use the stun gun if she tried to drive off after defiantly tearing up her ticket. But she continued resist and use vulgar language, according to reports.
Now Rent is ranting that she worried the police put her baby in danger (even though the baby supposedly checked out fine at the hospital). Would have been nice if she considered that before she started kicking up a ruckus over a parking ticket.
As a former pregnant woman myself, I sympathize with the daily challenges of being a second- or even third-time expectant mom. I think people should give up their seat for pregnant women on the subway or bus. It's just the right thing to do. But pulling the pregnancy card to break the law is just not cool. And it's obnoxious.
Anyone disagree?
Image via hermanturnip/Flickr
Tie-Dye for the Fourth of July!
Kim and Kanye's Baby Name Predictions!
Moms Love Birthday Parties, Too!
Father Knows Best - Happy Father's Day!
Comments 120
Heck yeah i disagree how loopy in the head do you have to be and you actually have the guts to write an article about it supporting the situation. see what your doing here is none another but better described as trolling doing something so utterly offensive or idiotic to simply get a rise outta people. i dont care how much she cursed or if she tore up a thousand tickets did it ever take a second to register into your mind the impact that taser shot could have had on her child? but noooo it check out fine im supposing next police will be tasering 2 year olds for leaving their trics on the side walk, because hey this one survived right? on a second note to that. do you have any idea how dangerous it is to admister a taser shot to the chest that close to the heart? when it is already under strain. that stun guns are built to take down things as heavy as a bull. under normal circumstances i am honestly surprised she didnt have a heart attack or that her heart didnt stop. and lastly you really have the lack of common sense to say on the internet that you actually leave your children in the car? to go in a store? havent you heard everyday kids being kidnapped, or putting the car into drive, or Hello! suffocating in those overly hot sunbaked cars?!
I think it is warrent for arrest not to be tasered. That is just excessive.
Ummmm sometimes pregnancy CAN be a handicap. When a woman is a high risk pregnancy and she is only supposed to be up and around for a certain amount of time like I was with my son and am quickly heading there with this one.Toxemia and other problems during pregnancy surely does put a pregnant woman in the right for using a handicap stall (if given a sign to hang in the window). My friend had to be on bedrest through her pregnancy almost until the end because SHE and her unborn baby were high risk! Being tasered does not fit the crime of cussing and ripping up a parking ticket for parking in the handicap stall. If anything she should have been ticketed for leaving her kids in the car. Even though the oldest was 9 I still wouldn't leave my kids in the car unsupervised. Do you know if she was a high risk pregnancy? NO! So before you go around saying she got what she deserved you should seriously check out her pregnancy status. and YES tasering a woman while pregnant DOES put the baby at risk! I'm not saying she had a right to park in a handicap stall but I'm not saying she didn't either. I don't know her story and neither do you. Uhggg... reading this made me sick.
Wow, lack of reading comprehension! She wasn't tased for " refusing a ticket". She's a BIG girl. Wipe "tase pregnant woman" of the table because cops did NOT KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT. It's HER job to protect her children & unborn. Belligerence, simple assault, cursing officers & resisting arrest after her situation by getting in her car are NOT PROTECTING HER CHILD.
There was TWO ADULTS. NEITHER was in the car with kids! BOTH were belligerent, cursing, screaming, yelling & attempting to flee. Once you commit a crime, a cop has the right to detain you until it is settled. SHE refused it all & was raving like a lunatic. Outrage from her family is laughable. "She's nice, respectful " - but she doesn't argue she left her kids alone, she doesn't argue she wasn't cussing, she doesn't argue that she tore up the ticket and refused to obey commands, her complaint is being tased while pregnant - which again, cops DID NOT KNOW ABOUT. A sob story of losing two kids prior - if she wouldn't answer the cops questions anyway, it's not their job to be obstetricians, nor find family history out. SHE put the baby in jeopardy. SHE broke the law repeatedly & admits it. Each offense made it worse & driving off while officers are around the car, disobeying commands to stop, given her situation, how did they know that she wasn't going to run them over? You expect them to know she's pregnant, but won't give officers expectations?