6 COPS + 4 TASERS VERSUS 1 WRESTLER
09.24.08
Worter Torriente-Vele, a former Cuban wrestling champion, was arrested in Oregon after police were alerted to a drunken and belligerent man who wouldn’t leave a Plaid Pantry convenience store. Six officers and four tasers later…
[Sergeant Michael] LeDuc said the 28-year-old Vancouver man started fighting with the two officers. One of them shot Torriente-Vele with a taser but it had no affect [sic].During the struggle, a third officer showed up and tried to help the other two contain Torriente-Vele.
Three more officers responded to the call. LeDuc said even after being tased three more times Torriente-Vele would not stay down. After three minutes of struggling, the six officers were finally able to get some handcuffs on the five-foot-nine Torriente-Vele.
I don’t want to tell the police how to do their job, but I really think the arrest would have been easier if they hit him in the face some more.
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“even after being tased three more times Torriente-Vele would not stay down. After three minutes of struggling, the six officers were finally able to get some handcuffs on the five-foot-nine Torriente-Vele.”
This sounds an awful lot like the night I lost my virginity.
I remember it like it was last week.
Well, it was last week, actually.
They should’ve just swept the leg.
“…drunken and belligerent man who wouldn’t leave a Plaid Pantry convenience store.”
Man, those Cuban wrestlers know how to party.
Man, Elián González looks like shit.
Does this count as a LOSS in his wrestling record?
i’m trying to think how this could have been worse, but i’m stumped. maybe if the cops were tigers with machine guns or something.
It kinda played out like a scene from Grand Theft Auto. There are ALWAYS more cops on the way.
First you get de beating, den you get de taser, den you get de women.
Were there no folding chairs available?
Nice one Matt. This guy was one star away from being gunned down by a helicopter. Too bad he forgot to enter his cheat codes.
Is he about to cry?
/walk it off bitch
Within Vancouver PD this is known as the Cuban Wrestler Crisis.
Cubans will do crazy things to try and get another trillion dollar bill.
The sad part is he was working in the store at the time and didn’t want to leave his shift.