Have you ever been hogtied?

[dennis100]

My sister is bound and determined to send me to the looney bin.

I had a partial seizure, the cop thought I was psychotic and took me to the hospital.

My sister somehow heard about it, got the police report and of course to her untrained eye she was positive I had lost my mind. I tried again and again explaining that it was a seizure but she wasn't buying it.

A few weeks ago I was watching golf (drinking cream soda) with my father at my parent's house. I wondered where my sister and mother were because they had been gone so long. I look around the house, they weren't inside. I stepped out the front door and found them in the front yard along with about six cops. I asked what the hell is going on here and one of the cops replied "domesticate disturbance".

I told the idiot cop that "domesticate disturbance" does not require 3 cop cars. He replied that they were in the area and just decided to stop by.

I told the cop that he was stupid. I also informed all the cops that there is no disturbance here. As soon as I started to place my arm over my sister's shoulder I was attacked by all of the cops.

They threw me up against the brick wall, handcuffed me then threw me down on the ground and hogtied me. There I lay hogtied until an ambulance arrived. I was taken to the E.R. and left there hogtied for 5 hours.

I was yelling and screaming that I had epilepsy and being hogtied like this can be deadly. The doctors, nurses, orderlies, paid no attention to my cries for help. They just rolled their eyes.

After 5 hours of my screaming they took me out of the hogtie position and placed me in a 4 point restraint. I screamed at those f..king idiots that a 4 point restraint was no better than the hogtie.

I was taken to the locked psych ward of the hospital and remained there until I was released 10 days later. I had to plead my case before a panel of judges, wait for their decision, then have the final "OK" to be released from the hospital's psychiatrist.

God only knows what my sister and mother told those cops.

 

[Cint]

Where was your father during all this? Why didn't he step up and defend you?
Why did you mouth off to the cop that he was stupid? That is probably what set him and the other cops off, leading them to hogtie you.

I've had 911 called on several occasions because of seizures, and once they said I did attack the cop because I was in the ictal stage, but I wasn't hogtied or taken to the psych ward. I was taken to the ER and had my blood levels taken and later my neuro came in to see me.

Has your family, the cops and the neighbors all been educated in what seizures can do to people? Have you thought of pressing charges with your own lawyer, one who handles people with disabilities?

 

[dennis100]

My 86 year old father had no idea what was going on. He was watching TV.

Cint, no one ever claimed I was seizing. I was feeling perfectly fine. I was only acting a little out of the ordinary. I had placed my hand on each of their necks to show them where the vagus nerve is. Kinda like letting them know where all my scar tissue and electrodes are. Making sure they knew not to hit me in that area.

I forgot an important part to that story.

They threw me up against the brick wall and handcuffed me while holding a taser gun 6 inches from my right chest. I screamed at that trembling idiot cop that I had electrodes on my vagus nerve and if he used that gun he could kill me.

The next thing I knew I was thrown down on the ground and hogtied. Not once did I ever have a chance to resist.

I am a big guy. 6'1 210lbs. I could have taken any of those Corpus Christi police offercers if they would have ever given me half a chance.

As far as a law suit against the officers or the Hospital, I could file one but there is something else going on behind the scenes that will make messing around with a law suit just a waste of time.

 

[Cint]

Cint, no one ever claimed I was seizing. I was feeling perfectly fine. I was only acting a little out of the ordinary. I had placed my hand on each of their necks to show them where the vagus nerve is. Kinda like letting them know where all my scar tissue and electrodes are. Making sure they knew not to hit me in that area.

I forgot an important part to that story.

I didn't say you were seizing. By placing your hands on the police officers, that is probably what set them off.

 

[Bernard]

Damn. Sorry to hear that Dennis. You've been through so much - last thing you need is to be fighting with family.

P.S. *Never* touch a cop.

 

[C0urt]

might be medi alert bracelet time, helps as evidence if nothing else.

 

[Cint]

P.S. *Never* touch a cop.

Exactly my point!

 

[N Sperlo]

Medical bracelet time for sure.

You can yell whatever you want to any law enforcement, but they need to be safe to make sure everyone else is. I work with a gun on my hip and any breach of my personal space will result in similar actions even though I'm very familiar with epilepsy.

If you are nice to the police, they will be nice to you. Acting excited or anxious will raise the level of an officers response because you will make them rightfully anxious.

Be careful.

 

[dennis100]

I use to wear a bracelet but no one ever paid attention to it. I use to work as a paramedic. A firefighter/paramedic to be exact. A bracelet or nickles is the first thing I would look for if a patient was acting out of the ordinary. They don't do that anymore here in Corpus Christi. I was in the hospital a few times here recently due to partial seizures and always just thrown into the psych ward. I got so pissed off one time after I regained my senses that I just ripped the damn thing off. 70 bucks down the drain.

Everything is cool with my family Bernard. I am a very forgiving man. Shit, I have no choice but to be forgiving. Nobody wants to be around me if you know what I mean.

 

[dennis100]

Exactly my point!

I never had a chance to touch the cops. They attacked me.

It was my sister and mother that I touched and that was about an hour before I was beaten and hogtied.

 

[dennis100]

I think my sister and mother wanted to consult with someone because I was acting a little weird so they called the cops. My sister is a good looking single chick so instead of one cop showing up to consulted them about epilepsy 6 cops showed up to consult them about my medical problem. When I walked out of the door the cops hadn't had a chance yet to consult them about my neurological problems so they decided the best thing to do is hogtie me.

 

[C0urt]

here typically epileptics are put in the psyche ward at at least two of the hospitals, they are better staffed than the other wards, and have ways to take care of people having seizures.

I use to wear a bracelet but no one ever paid attention to it. I use to work as a paramedic. A firefighter/paramedic to be exact. A bracelet or nickles is the first thing I would look for if a patient was acting out of the ordinary. They don't do that anymore here in Corpus Christi. I was in the hospital a few times here recently due to partial seizures and always just thrown into the psych ward. I got so pissed off one time after I regained my senses that I just ripped the damn thing off. 70 bucks down the drain.

Everything is cool with my family Bernard. I am a very forgiving man. Shit, I have no choice but to be forgiving. Nobody wants to be around me if you know what I mean.

 

[dennis100]

The more i'm thinking about this the better a law suit sounds. I just might do it to teach those imbeciles a lessen. I'm not the kind of guy you screw around with. Paybacks are a bitch.