They Tased The Band Director?!

A HS band director was recently tased because he refused to have the band stop playing after the game.  Apparently, bands playing in somewhat of a competition after the game is a thing in some places. Due to the refusal to stop, and not listening to police officers, Johnny Mims was tased 3 times. This brought back the sore memory for Jack about his band director who made him miss the last episode of M.A.S.H. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're in a high school band, you might have
wanted your band director to be tasted at various points.
But this is a different sort of story. Here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
The arrest of this popular band director as parents fuming
and Birmingham authorities are defending the arrest. Police were trying
to clear the stadium, but the bands from the two
high schools kept playing on. Students say it was part
of a regular competition. After games. When the band from
minor high school, the visiting team, wouldn't stop playing. Police
surrounded the director, Johnny Mimms, telling him to leave, but

(00:33):
he kept refusing, even when they turned off the lights.
That's when police went to arrest him. An officer fired
his stun gun on the band director at least three times.
The director is now fighting criminal charges disorderly conduct, physical
harassment and resisting arrest.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I have so many questions now, I've been around these
kind of things, these like band competitions of who can
play the latest. There's one I've been to several times.
It goes at like four o'clock in the morning. But
I don't know that you need to taste the band
director who's trying to be the band that hangs out
the longest after the game. I'm totally unaware of that. Yeah,

(01:14):
phenomenon slash contest, how interest? Just so we got spirit
how about you sort of thing? Wow? Okay, I'm in
favor of that, I guess, but unless I live next door,
I don't know. They refuse to stop playing as we
got this text, and the marching band refused to yield.
If you're old enough to remember the Wow Don McLean classic,

(01:38):
they tasted the band director. What an odd incident, right,
good god, what terrible judgment in my opinion. Tell the guy, look,
you win. It's now one o'clock in the morning or
whatever time it was. There's a residential neighborhood. We got
to end it. If you don't stop, we're gonna have

(02:01):
to find you or something. You know, But you can't
what they did. Do you know that that's not what
they did? But you can't put Then you let it
go and eventually they go home.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
You can't tase the guy.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
You can't tase the guy out on a football field play.
I mean, it's crazy. He's violating the law, he's resisting arrest,
he's disregarding lawful orders by law enforcement. That is crazy.
You got a marching band playing at two am in
your neighborhood and you're like, well, I don't do anything
to shut it down. I don't actually know what time was.
I don't think it was that Laban. I think tasing

(02:34):
the band director is insane. Altho I had a band
director that I wouldn't mind seeing taste for a variety
of much lesser crimes. See there you go. Maybe this guy,
I don't know, maybe he directed Waltz is in four
or four time or something like that. Yes, I'm just flat.
I'm always flat. I will continue to be flat until
I graduate.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
So there.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Remember you never saw the last episode a match because
of this guy. That's right. That was the main thing
I was mad about. We had musical practice and they
did not move musical practice on it to do a
different night or earlier or later. For the last episode
of mash. They'll most watched television show in history. So
I never saw it. I don't know how it ended.
They're still there as far as I know.