Through the years I have come across all kinds of unexpected reasons why people have found themselves on the wrong end of a police Taser (here and here, for example). This week’s reason for an unexpected Tasering: trying to use a garden hose to fight a fire that is threatening your house.

Of course, the police would phrase that reason differently. Probably something like: “refusing to stop fighting a fire with a garden hose that is threatening your house after being ordered to do so by police.”