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Don't Tase Me, Bro!

You might remember it as UF taser incident, Andrew Meyer taser

“Don’t tase me, bro!”
This is something people said. There is no recording of it to show.

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2007·Early YouTube

A news clip whose single line entered the language, and an early case of phone footage becoming national culture.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
UF taser incident
Spread in
2007
Format
Phrase
Era
Early YouTube
Who or what it shows
Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old student
Where
A forum with Senator John Kerry at the University of Florida, in Gainesville
What it said
“Don’t tase me, bro!”
Origin
Origin not yet established
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

Why it matteredWhat changed

A student being removed from a senator’s public meeting shouted four words that the Yale Book of Quotations named the most memorable quotation of 2007.

TimelineIn order

  1. Mainstream

    The New Oxford American Dictionary lists “tase” among its words of the year.1

  2. Made

    Meyer’s microphone is cut off, officers hold him down, and one uses a Taser on him.1

  3. Later

    A state investigation finds the officers’ actions justified.1

LegacyWhat it left behind

More from hereIn this collection

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

Where it came fromWhat we know

Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.

No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

More from 2007You were there

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — University of Florida Taser incident

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