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Category: Odd + Funny Author : Kim LaCapria Posted: June 10, 2009
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Gran Gone Wild: Texas constable tasers 72-year-old grandma


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Don’t mess with Texas. No, really- they’ll taser your grandma.

What started as a routine traffic stop in May descended into newsworthiness when feisty 72-year-old Kathryn Winkfein refused to sign her speeding ticket. Winkfein became crochety at the young upstart police officer for demanding she sign a speeding ticket.

After refusing to sign the ticket, Winkfein committed the cardinal sin of exiting the vehicle. At this point, the officer shoves her. For her own good, he explains- to keep her out of oncoming traffic.

Winkfein becomes increasingly upset. She takes the officer, Chris Bieze, to task for the shoving, at which time he threatens:

“If you don’t stand back, I’m gonna tase you.”

Presumably annoyed at being disturbed on her way to eat guys like this for lunch, Winkfein replies:

“Go ahead, taser me.”

The officer warns the woman again and again- five times- until finally using the taser on the belligerent septugenarian. Clearly in pain, Winkfein was not injured and was transported to jail for resisting arrest.

I don’t know about you, but I feel safer knowing this bingo-playing speed demon is off the streets.










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6 Archived Responses to “ Gran Gone Wild: Texas constable tasers 72-year-old grandma ”

  1. asty
    Jun 10, 2009

    The video was of a 72 year old woman being tasered. The incident seemingly started as a routine traffic stop, then escalated to the officer tasering the …
    See a video here:72 year old woman tasered

  2. Fire the cop
    Jun 10, 2009

    The officer was the one who opened the door and endangered the woman by telling her to get out of her truck instead of him going to his vehicle to run her information. He violated his duty by shoving her and threatening her for being nothing but noisey. He also refused to give her the ticket to sign when she said to give it to her to sign. She complied when he asked her to get out, she complied when he asked to to walk to the back, she also complied by sittin on the back of the truck. She had a right to get into her vehicle and as she was walking away , he tasers her unprovoked. THE COP IS THE danger.

  3. WFG
    Jun 10, 2009

    People who understand behavior modification will always try to prevent a problem from occurring. The constable obviously didn't read that chapter, as he was probably “just doing his job” the only way he knows. But let's cut him some slack. To expect this constable to modify someone's behavior without force is asking too much. He's not interested in such an approach, and he's not intellectually capable of understanding that concept. I suspect he believes (or has been taught) that the best way to control a contentious situation is with raw power and authority. I predict that he will “be allowed to pursue another form of employment” since he is now quite a liability.

  4. OCO
    Jun 11, 2009

    We are all safer now.

  5. texasnomo
    Jun 11, 2009

    Texas. Continuing to be the most F'd up state in the union.

  6. traffic_ticket
    Jul 1, 2009

    After watching the video, I have to say she deserved it.