Steve Consalvi, a 17-year-old high school, leapt onto the field at the top of the eighth inning during Monday night’s game between Philadelphia and St. Louis at Citizen Bank Park in Philadelphia. He ran around in the outfield, waving a white towel, and dodged two security officers.

The police officer chased Consalvi for about 30 seconds before the officer used a stun gun probe to hit the teenager, who stumbled forward, slid face-first on the grass and stayed down for about 30 seconds before standing up and walking off the field.

Merrick Bobb, executive director of a Los Angeles-based nonprofit police oversight group called the Police Assessment Resource Center, said mild resistance usually doesn’t justify the use of a Taser. “Usually the resistance has to threaten some harm to the officer in order to justify the use of a Taser,” Bobb said.

Mary Catherine Roper, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia, said she didn’t understand why the officer had to use a Taser. “How long can he really run around out there?” Roper said of the fan. “In this situation, he’s not dangerous, he’s not getting away.”

Consalvi’s mother, Amy Ziegler, put it best. “It was stupid. It was just absolutely stupid,” she told WTXF-TV.

And as Ron White likes to say, you can’t fix stupid. Unless, of course, you have a Taser. So maybe the ACLU should worry about helping people who aren’t idiots. As parents like to tell their children, actions have consequences.