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Weapons
Texas Cops Break The Taser On A Curmudgeonly 72-Year-Old Woman
12:30PM Adrian Covert | Despite the fact that tasing a full-grown man borders on excessive, a Texas cop found it necessary to tase a 72-year-old woman because she was yelling at him. And the slightly horrific, slightly hilarious farce was all caught on camera. More »
Random Stuff
Now Just What In the Hell Is Going On Here
11:30AM Adam Frucci | Seriously, can someone explain it to me? Because I, for one, am at a loss. [FailBlog] More »
Gadgets
CoolCop Is a Hose That Runs AC Right Into Your Shirt, But Only if You’re a Cop
8:40AM Adam Frucci | You know you’ve made it as an inventor when you’re selling a vacuum cleaner hose to cops for $US50 that’s designed to run from their car’s AC vents to their shirts. More »
Random Stuff
Does This Look Like a Gun to You ?
1:00AM Matt Buchanan | It did to Australian cops who found this steering wheel lock while searching 18-year-old Chad Hasting’s car after they pulled him over. They called in backup and arrested him for possessing a gun. More »
Games
Cops Get Bored at Work Just Like You and Me
1:20AM Adam Frucci | Jeffrey Toobin isn’t the only person who gets caught dicking around on his computer when he should be working. [The Duty via Bullshit] More »
Weapons
Cops Will Soon Be Zapping Drunks With Lasers Instead of Tasers
8:30AM Matt Buchanan | The Department of Justice is working on two new weapons descended from the Air Force’s “pain beam” Active Denial System—and wants to put them in the hands of your local boys in blue. More »
Weapons
Thor Shield Taser-Proof Vest Coming to Protect Your Torso from the Man
3:00AM Adam Frucci | You’ve seen the patent, and now it’s becoming a reality: yes, taser-proof vests are coming. The “Thor Shield” was designed for police officers but sure to be more popular amongst protesters and other people who piss off police officers. It uses a layer of foil in the vest to draw the current of the taser, keeping your body nice and jolt-free. That’ll really come in handy the next time you foolishly decide to get out of your car to argue with a cop at a traffic stop or decide to protest any of the government’s actions. [Thor Shield via The Register] More »
Press
Cops Catch Crooks With Confiscated Mobile Phone
1:00PM Matt Hickey | Very clever cops in Terrell, North Carolina, used a suspects mobile phone to catch his accomplices. Officers arrested the 16-year-old boy on suspicion of string of break-ins and confiscated his cell phone. When a text message from a friend showed up asking if he’d been caught. They replied, “No”, and went on to make plans for the accomplice to pick up the suspect. The police then met him and arrested him. They face a series of charges. [Breitbart] More »
Weapons
Canadian Cops Tase Knife-Wielding 82-Year-Old Patient in his Hospital Bed
6:00AM Addy Dugdale | The cops in Canada seem to be getting the hang of the Taser business. Mounties summoned to a British Columbia hospital tased an octogenarian patient after he pulled a knife from his pocket. Eighty-two-year-old Frank Lasser, who was suffering from pneumonia and had been admitted to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, claimed that sometimes he got delusional when he got short of breath. Did that, however, make it right for the police to tase him, bro? More »
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