Sports Grid - A man in upstate New York was tased to death by local police after going on an early morning tour of destruction in a local Gold’s Gym. Cops are currently investigating to see if performance enhancing drugs played a role in his meltdown.
Witnesses say 32-year-old Chad Brothers arrived at the gym at 5:45am “acting strange,” using exaggerated sounds and mumbling to himself as he worked out. Then, after about a half hour of his loud grunting, things got crazy.
Brothers, who is 6-1, 230 pounds, and described as extremely muscular, “fell or jumped off” an elliptical machine, went over to a treadmill where another guy was working out, increased the speed of the machine and punched the guy in the face, started pushing over machines that weighed over 700 pounds, destroyed a display case, threw (threw) two 45-pound dumbbells, left the building, came back, left the building again, then came back again and started ripping computers out of the wall and toppling filing cabinets in the gym’s office.
It was at this point that a female police officer arrived at the scene and ordered him to stand down. Brothers responded by throwing boxes at her, at which point she was forced to tase him in the chest and upper leg. This brought him down, but as the officer was handcuffing him, he stood up… with her on his back.
[Brothers] grabbed the Taser from the officer and appeared to shock himself, Heider said. Two other officers arrived and both used Tasers against Brothers. Heider estimated that Brothers was shocked four to five times at three to five seconds each time. One officer also struck him on the shoulder with a collapsible baton.
“This was a whirlwind of a battle in a confined space,” Heider said. He estimated it lasted less than two minutes.
The three officers (and a few helpful gym patrons) finally subdued Brothers, using two sets of handcuffs because of his size.
Imagine being that female officer who arrived first on the scene. She walks into a weight room to find some enormous dude flipping over ellipticals and chucking 45lb dumbbells across the room. He THREW 45’s across the room. I’ll curl 45ers, maybe I could shot-put them a few yards, but “threw” is not really a word that could describe what can be done to 45 lb dumbbells.
And then this lady cop comes in and tases him in the dick and probably starts thinking to herself, “job well done”, as she slaps some cuffs on him. NOPE. The dude goes Bruce Banner on that bitch. He stands up (with the officer still on his back) steals the cops taser and FUCKING TASES HIMSELF. What fucking steroids was he on? Not to be insensitive but I can’t wait to see what his autopsy turns up. I need to replicate his stack. Ill have what he’s having please, and my money is on PCP.
And next time anybody decides to go on a roid rampage, do it in a Planet Fitness.
