Deputies with their guns drawn shout at an armed man at a liquor store to get on the ground.

The man, Ira McQueen, is an agent with the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, but the deputies don’t know that.

They have been called to what a witness believed was an armed robbery at the business.

When McQueen, who is in civilian clothes, doesn’t comply with the deputies’ demands, a Taser stun gun is used on him. A Sheriff’s Office dog is also released on the man.

McQueen ends up in the hospital.

Read the whole article. Nothing is as simple as it sounds. Before or after reading the tale.

I’m still not really certain what happened here and neither are the coppers. I think the script was written by Monty Python.