Stun Guns Increasingly Used at Sporting Events

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Security officers are increasingly using stun guns to maintain order at sporting events, but are they taking crowd control too far?

Go2 109 Ab Eyewitnesses insist they saw a woman sitting innocently in a stadium aisle, unable to reach her seat in an overcrowded row as an Oct. 11 football game began at the University of Wisconsin. Police reports paint a picture of a woman kicking and screaming as she was about to be handcuffed, ejected and cited for violating Camp Randall Stadium policy regarding aisle blockage. That's when things really got out of control - or were, in fact, controlled - depending on whose interpretation of events one chooses to embrace.

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