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Salt Lake City police may have saved the life of an errant and combative bicyclist — twice.
The first time, by getting him out of the middle of traffic on a busy down Salt Lake City street Sunday night; the second, by stunning him with a Taser when he pulled a knife and held it to his own throat.
Police had stopped the bicyclist about 9 p.m. Sunday at 550 E. 400 South. But when they approached him for questioning, he allegedly became hostile, brandished the knife and refused commands to drop the weapon.
A Taser shock ended the standoff, and the man — who gave false information when asked for his identity — was booked into the Salt Lake County jail after he recovered.
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