Cops Zap PCP-Using Rock Band Enthusiast (With Video) [Video]

From the University of Maryland comes this tale of holiday cheer – starring GameStop, Rock Band 3, a guy on PCP, cops, and the requisite taser.

A Maryland senior headed to a shopping center on Monday desiring to get a new ATM card. Instead, he saw a guy alone inside a GameStop, game cases strewn concerning the floor, apparently playing Rock Band 3. The Maryland student said the man’s pupils were ” all dilated,” and described him as ” pretty fucked up.”

Enter the varsity Park fuzz. They tried to speak calmly to the man; he responded with a barrage of profanity and by, quote, flipping a shit, endquote, so out came the electroshock treatment, which you’ll see above.

The Diamondback, the newspaper of the University of Maryland, followed up with cops, who said the tased Rock Band enthusiast was under the influence of PCP. He was taken to a neighborhood hospital, treated, and released.

The University of Maryland is the alma mater of Kotaku editor Brian D. Crecente.

Unruly Man Tasered, Arrested Downtown [The Diamondback, thanks former Kotaku intern Andrew Freedman]

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