Billy Vunipola was tasered twice by police officers while being arrested at a bar in Majorca.
The incident took place in a bar called Epic in Palma, with Vunipola taking off his shirt and threatening customers and employees with bottles and chairs, according to local reports.
Vunipola, who is 6ft 2in and weighs more than 20 stone, required a second taser volt in order to be handcuffed by police officers at around 4.30am on Sunday morning, before later being taken to nearby Son Espases Hospital where he was reportedly sedated and bound to his bed.
In association football this sort of thing is devolved to the supporters. In rugby it’s the players themselves……no delegation, see?
In association football, it’s generally rape isn’t it? Or at least the allegations are?
I dunno, they’re such lightweights these days. An England forward was expected to be able to down 8 or 9 pints of Old Spice and still go out for a beer afterwards.
I’d like to think it was the customers who were brandishing the bottles (which is never acceptable) and chairs (faced with an angry Vunipola I’m pretty sure I’d have grabbed one).
Otherwise sad and unnecessary as merely taking his shirt off would be sufficient to terrify any sane person.
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I wonder whether he would agree or rather whether it that it required a 2nd taser etc. etc.
I remember a police inspector saying that lots of pissed-up or drugged or insane blokes take off their shirts during their stand-off with authority. Never their trousers, though, no matter how “out of control” they were.
I wonder if it was a think before the Rambo films…
I guess it gives the police a better shot with the taser, though.
Sam
It is far too complicated to divest oneself completely of trousers in such a situation. Especially if he is wearing chunky trainers.
Now if he were a tranny then he wouldn’t have that problem. A sarong is ideal for such situations, whip it off, fold it in half with a bottle or pool ball inside and it makes an excellent weapon. And it can be used as a towel on the beach.
They don’t want to get blood on their weaving gear as it limits access to the places the ladies frequent.
Silly Billy
That French club he’s due to join may be having second thoughts. They don’t want another Marc Cecillon.
I can see that a pissed-up, angry Billy V would need more than one tasering. And I don’t blame Plod, I wouldn’t fancy tackling him if the red mist had descended.
Very silly though. He was lined up for a couple of well remunerated years in the South of France and may have cocked it up.
People take their shirts off before fights because it gives the opponent less to grab hold of, and less opportuity and leverage to get spun into something hard, like the floor or a wall.
(They may not know that this is why they’re doing it, but that’s the instinctive reason.)
I’ve been tasered – not by the police, for fun (or at least, to see what it feels like).
It feels shit.
You don’t need tasering twice, even at Billy’s size – I expect the first shot didn’t make the necessary connection or misfired in some way.
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Interested is spot on. The first shot somehow managed to miss his enormous torso and hit him in the wallet, hence didn’t work.
All the talk of bottles and chairs and threats was tripe. He was, it seems, spectacularly drunk and being a dick, but not a violent one. He wouldn’t leave and the bouncers didn’t fancy trying to chuck him out so the bar owner called the police. They couldn’t persuade him to put his shirt on and leave either so they tasered him and carted him off. Everyone seems to have been very sensible, apart from Billy. No point in bouncers or coppers getting involved in a massive ruck with a huge drunk bloke,
Storm in a teacup but woefully stupid on his part.
“if the red mist had descended”: I once had a discussion with a chap who refused to believe in the “red mist”, specifically the idea that if you are sufficiently overwrought about something it gives a short term boost to your physical strength. What a sheltered life he must have led.
“It feels shit.”
Exactly Interested.
So I got the girls to go back to giving me a good thrashing instead.
I think he hasn’t yet inked his contract with Montpelier, so he may find his wallet is tasered twice.