So … This one has me standing in the middle wanting to point and swear in both directions. Jared Massey got pulled over for speeding, and then, with his wife and his kid in the car, started acting like a gigantic ass to a cop.

Conclusion: idiot.

Then, the UHP Trooper got sick of Jared Massey acting like an ass and tasered him. Then tasered him again. Then, when another cop rolled up on the scene, he made a few jokes and, allegedly, lied about why he tasered Massey.

Conclusion: bigger idiot.

Some folks, on every side of this issue, started throwing out their own interpretation of the Utah Code as far as Jared’s rights, and most folks were making things up. Other folks, on every side of this issue, started taking the trooper’s side, saying that Massey deserved it. The Bloggers weighed in as well, and their reaction: Outrage.

Outrage is a funny thing considering that most folks were basing their anger off of short, ill informed, media reports. The Utah media is notorious for editing material to the shortest, and sometimes dumbest, interpretation available. A little whole later, the video popped up online.

I’ve watched the video that was uploaded on YouTube, and, without being able to watch the missing 12 minutes, I can only come to one conclusion and I’m pretty comfortable with it:

This is what happens when a couple of boneheads meet in a random situation.

To Jared Massey – take the ticket. You were speeding. If you want to pull over and get a few pictures and fight it traffic court, fine, chances are you’ll win because no one at the court wants to deal with it, not really. You’re an ass, Jared. When you get caught breaking the law, be a man, sack up, and take responsibility for it, especially when your family is in the car. If you want to be an ass, and provoke a police officer, do it when you’re alone.

To Trooper Anger Ball Gardner – you really need to chill out. You obviously need anger management classes and, more than likely, medication. I hope they fire you. Not only did you cross a line with that stunt, you just made life miserable for every other cop in the state who has to taser someone for actually being dangerous, and not because they let a spoiled little pissant get under their skin. You should have files the ticket, let him get a bench warrant for not paying it and then next time, he could spend a night in jail.

You’re both a couple of idiots.