"You pick up the crumbs I drop at the dinner table and stick them in books, " he said.

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He was walking to a pub to meet friends at the time and said the Tasering had forced him to drop his stick and fall to the ground.

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It forced him to drop his stick and he fell to the ground, he said.

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