Watch This Dumb Bitch Get Tazed

[Yarg!]

bitch is lucky, i woulda shot her

 

[bran987]

According to an article in the Friday edition of Gannett (NYSE: GCI)-owned USA Today, the Taser (Nasdaq: TASR) X26 stun gun delivers a jolt of 2,100 to 3,600 amperes. In an accompanying chart, the newspaper explained that a Taser's charge is far more powerful than the current that runs through an electric chair.

Dramatic story. Great headline. Incredibly inaccurate.

The strength of a Taser X26 is only .0021 to .0036 amperes, a point Taser makes in a press release in response to the article. That's about 1,000 times less than an electric chair.

The paper realized the gaffe over the weekend and published a retraction: "Due to a mathematical error, a graphic Friday significantly overstated the amount of electricity delivered by a Taser. The correct numbers are .0021 to .0036 amperes -- a minuscule fraction of the electricity used by subway trains and the electric chair. The electricity produced by a Taser is less than that delivered by electroshock therapy used to treat pain and depression."

This morning, the data was removed from the Web version of the original article, and a retraction was published on page 2A of the print version.

More eyes, however, need to see the facts about Tasers before reaching judgment. For every thousand people who read the chart and passed along that amazing tidbit of information to friends at weekend barbecues and cocktail parties, only a small percentage will know of the follow-up truth behind the story.

Taser CEO Rick Smith did not mince words in his response to the error. "This latest story, including its egregious mathematical error and horrendous analogies to blatantly lethal electrical sources written by USA Today, is an affront to science and an insult to Taser International employees and the hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers and military personnel who develop and deploy Taser technology with the goal of saving lives."

Not to be a mouthpiece, but I think Mr. Smith has a point.

 

[slat1]

That was a riot.
I have been hit with 200,000 volts quite a few times. 50,000 volts is a walk in the park. That lady played it up hard.

 

[redguru]

Taser CEO Rick Smith did not mince words in his response to the error. "This latest story, including its egregious mathematical error and horrendous analogies to blatantly lethal electrical sources written by USA Today, is an affront to science and an insult to Taser International employees and the hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers and military personnel who develop and deploy Taser technology with the goal of saving lives."

Not to be a mouthpiece, but I think Mr. Smith has a point.

Bran, we were taught in the navy that it requires >65 milliamperes of current to actually interrupt human heart rhythm. So a taser doesn't even provide half that much current. Kinda blows that Taser is dangerous theory right out of the water.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

Bran, we were taught in the navy that it requires >65 milliamperes of current to actually interrupt human heart rhythm. So a taser doesn't even provide half that much current. Kinda blows that Taser is dangerous theory right out of the water.

the pain and fright associated with being tased can easily stimulate a sympathetic nervous response capable of ultimately interrupting heart rhythm, via direct neuronal stimulation or adrenergic stimulation some short time later.

then we have to think about people who are unusually sensitive to the application of external current, either through simple genomic variance, or an underlying condition - which we are wont to do since everybody in the country is exposed to the risk of being tased - with the conclusion again being that the incident current applied by the taser cannot be excluded as a potential precipitant to a cardiac event when used in its designated demographic.

kinda blows your navy training theory right out of the water.

 

[dahamn]

the pain and fright associated with being tased can easily stimulate a sympathetic nervous response capable of ultimately interrupting heart rhythm, via direct neuronal stimulation or adrenergic stimulation some short time later.

then we have to think about people who are unusually sensitive to the application of external current, either through simple genomic variance, or an underlying condition - which we are wont to do since everybody in the country is exposed to the risk of being tased - with the conclusion again being that the incident current applied by the taser cannot be excluded as a potential precipitant to a cardiac event when used in its designated demographic.

kinda blows your navy training theory right out of the water.

Getting shot with a 9mm would more than likely be worse.

Dave

 

[redguru]

the pain and fright associated with being tased can easily stimulate a sympathetic nervous response capable of ultimately interrupting heart rhythm, via direct neuronal stimulation or adrenergic stimulation some short time later.

then we have to think about people who are unusually sensitive to the application of external current, either through simple genomic variance, or an underlying condition - which we are wont to do since everybody in the country is exposed to the risk of being tased - with the conclusion again being that the incident current applied by the taser cannot be excluded as a potential precipitant to a cardiac event when used in its designated demographic.

kinda blows your navy training theory right out of the water.

Sounds like Darwinism at its best. Anyone who is in that kind of physical condition shouldn't be placing themselves in a situation where they are being tazed. Now, please tell me what is the difference between cannot be excluded and is responsible for? It can't be excluded that hydrogen oxide is the world's most dangerous chemical compound, either.

 

[gjohnson5]

If you read the law it states that it is a crime to willfully refuse to obey a direct and lawful order from a peace officer.

Cheers,
Scotsman

What law?

 

[GoldenDelicious]

Sounds like Darwinism at its best. Anyone who is in that kind of physical condition shouldn't be placing themselves in a situation where they are being tazed. Now, please tell me what is the difference between cannot be excluded and is responsible for? It can't be excluded that hydrogen oxide is the world's most dangerous chemical compound, either.

youre right. people with some sort of underlying, undetected and perhaps undetectable cardiac condition SHOULD NOT, under ANY circumstance, put themselves in a position where they may be tased...the most common position being, of course, united states citizenship.

do us all a favour and, rather than lick the dihydrogen oxide out of your toilet bowl as is your usual wont, simply place your head under the surface of an amply filled container of the previously mentioned liquid, suitably occluding airflow until life ceases to ebb through your worthless body, allowing friendly decomposition to recycle your clay back into the cycle of life in the form of a creature a shade more intelligent than your current shape....perhaps a tree, or a small marsupial

 

[hotzie]

i cant believe this thread is still goin