A nearly-naked man, a bottle of vegetable oil and a Taser

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A Council Bluffs man — clad only in his underwear while wielding a bottle of vegetable oil — was arrested 4 a.m. Thursday after an officer reportedly saw him chasing a woman who tried to shoot him with a Taser.

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The man told police that his girlfriend had been at his residence earlier that night and that she refused to leave after he told her to. The report says that the couple got into an argument and that the man told her not to be so loud because his mother was asleep in the house.

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The man tried to restrain his girlfriend and bit her arm, police said he told them.

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“This is when (the woman) grabbed a Taser and ran out of the residence. (The man) grabbed a bottle of vegetable oil and was going to dump it” on the woman when police arrived.

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Police said the woman told a similar version of events and showed them bite mark on her arm. She said she shot the Taser but said its probes didn’t hit the man.

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