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We don't know what it is about police in Florida, but they sure love to Taser people. Especially naked people it seems. Following a bizarre incident here in Miami just six days ago, police in West Melbourne have Tasered an 18-year-old boy for jogging in the nude.
"We suspect he was under the influence ... he was a little incoherent," Cmdr. Steve Wilkinson told
Florida Today. He also notes that afterward the suspect was well behaved.
"He was also very nice and apologetic for our inconvenience."
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