Do you know anyone who has been tasered?

[phyzik]

my friends bar has security, one of the security guys loaned these idiots his tazer and they where tazing eachother in the ass all night.... no one was hurt, they where just yelping like idiots when they got jolted.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Okay, so here is a perfect example of the abuse of a taser, which, remember, are meant to be used in threatening situations.

The guy at the Florida University John Kerry rally was causing a disturbance, sure, he was being a jerk, but he was no threat to anyone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE

I found the footage pretty shocking, what about you?

Was there much of a public outcry against that? You can hear John Kerry say "That's alright, I'll answer his question"!

And I think this is an interesting breakdown of what is happening in the background, and makes a valid point about eroding freedoms (although I think the officer with the taser drawn in the first instance is acting reasonably since he doesn't know how violent Andrew might become):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHgIsJ69HgI&NR=1

And here's what the police report says, for some context from the other side of the story:

http://mic emalkin.com/2007/09/19...police-report/

Finally, if you want a bit of a laugh watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPmJNQQmp_A&NR=1


PS How do I embed youtube videos here? doesn't work. Or do they take up too much bandwidth and thus that feature is disabled at ST?

[Slomo]

No embedding of html or others in here.

Links work just as good and aren't resource hogs.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Coolio.

[exstatic]

Coolio was tasered??

[exstatic]

I think the whole over tasering issue comes down to laziness. Yeah, it's (allegedly) non-lethal, but it shouldn't be a first choice for restraint.

[ashbeeigh]

I don't know anyone who has been tasered, but with people who have some health issues, like strokes, epilepsy, etc. I just see it was completely unsafe. I mean, obviously people can't wear posters that say "I have so and so condition, don't tase me."

In other situations when the health conditions are known, I do see it was a good non-violent end to a criminal situation.

[LuvBones]

Don't tase me bro!

[E20]

My friend has a 1.5 Million volt taser he bought off of Craig's List. He showed it to me, but I don't really believe if it's 1.5 million volts. I remember Cops only having 50,000 volts on there tasers.

[MrChug]

My friend has a 1.5 Million volt taser he bought off of Craig's List. He showed it to me, but I don't really believe if it's 1.5 million volts. I remember Cops only having 50,000 volts on there tasers.

So he bought an electric chair?

[Slydragon]

So he bought an electric chair?

LMAO

[E20]

So he bought an electric chair?

Yeah, that's why I was skepticial if he knew how much volts it had, but he did have one, he showed it to me.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Yeah, that's why I was skepticial if he knew how much volts it had, but he did have one, he showed it to me.

I reckon the label had to be wrong. 1,500,000V is 5 times the voltage of an average lightning strike (300,000V)! No way a hand-held device could generate that sort of voltage.

Here's an interesting page about lightning and people:

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/head...d18jun99_1.htm

[MrChug]

I reckon the label had to be wrong. 1,500,000V is 5 times the voltage of an average lightning strike (300,000V)! No way a hand-held device could generate that sort of voltage.

Here's an interesting page about lightning and people:

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/head...d18jun99_1.htm

"ONE POINT TWENTY ONE JIGGAWATTS!!!!"