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'Sorry I tased you!' Police officer apologises with cake after shooting firefighter with stun gun by mistake

It's not the first time an officer of the law has used baked goods to apologise to fellow emergency workers after shooting them rather than the target

Chris Baynes
Tuesday 24 April 2018 09:45 BST
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Hamilton Township officer Darcy Workman accidentally shocked firefighter Rickey Wagoner with her stun gun last week
Hamilton Township officer Darcy Workman accidentally shocked firefighter Rickey Wagoner with her stun gun last week

A police officer has said sorry to a firefighter she accidentally shot with a Taser by baking her apology into a cake.

Darcy Workman, an officer in Ohio’s Hamilton Township, shot Rickey Wagoner with her stun gun while attempting to restrain a patient during an “altercation” at a hospital, police said.

The firefighter was not seriously hurt.

Ms Workman presented the edible apology to Mr Wagoner on Saturday in the wake of the unfortunate incident a few days earlier.

A photo on Hamilton Township Police Department’s Facebook page showed her handing over the cake, iced with a sad face and the words 'Sorry I tased you!'

“All of us… appreciate the incredible relationship we have with our fire department,” wrote the department.

Hamilton Township is about 30 miles (48 kilometres) north-east of Cincinnati.

Ms Workman is not the first officer to deploy baked goods as a peace offering after Tasering a fellow member of the emergency services.

In January 2014, Massachusetts police officer Jay Maloney made colleague Katie Ross a cake reading “Sorry I tased you” after firing his stun gun at her by mistake as they arrested a man.

“The cake was not fully cooked,” Ms Ross noted in an interview with Gizmodo, “but it was the first cake he ever baked.”

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