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Weapons
Watch The Taser X3 Take Out Three Victims Without Reloading
9:00AM Sean Fallon | The question of what to do when police have more than one perp to unnecessarily victimise has finally been answered with the new X3. More »
Weapons
Police Sodomises Man With Taser
8:10AM Jesus Diaz | OK, this police taser business has gone way too fraking far. Now, Boise officers got a taser inside a suspect’s anus—who was already handcuffed—and fired it while everything was caught on tape (Warning: Strong audio violence). More »
Weapons
Man Bursts Into Flame After Being Hit With Taser
2:40PM Dan Nosowitz | An Australian man burst into flames after a policeman hit him on the bridge of the nose with his Taser. Sound ridiculous? Not so much if you know the man was arrested on suspicion of huffing gasoline. More »
Cameras
Taser Axon: Cops Goes FPS
12:40AM Mark Wilson | The Axon is a bit of a shocker from Taser. It’s not a “taser” in a traditional sense, but a POV camera cleverly squeezed into a Bluetooth-sized headset. More »
Weapons
Taser Shot Cures Irregular Heartbeat of Mentally Disturbed Drug Addict
9:40AM Sean Fallon | We have heard plenty of stories about tasers being harmful or even deadly, but could they also be healthy and heart-friendly? Possibly, given new evidence unearthed in the case of one 28 year old man who was tased after he hid from police in a lake for 40 minutes then tried to flee the ER when captured. Because of his stint in the lake and the drugs found in his system, the man’s body temperature had dropped to 89 degrees and his heart fell into atrial fibrillation—a condition where the upper chambers of the heart quiver rather than beat. More »
Gadgets
Taser Tape Turns Anything Into a Taser, Like Riot Shields or Underpants
9:00AM Matt Buchanan | Every year, Taser demos their latest and greatest in a mock prison riot at an old penitentiary in West Virginia. This year’s star is peel-and-stick taser tape, that’ll turn any surface into a fully electrified no-no zappy zone. On the practical side, this stuff will be rolling out by the end of the year to instantly upgrade cops’ riot shields into serious business, no taser wand-waving necessary, like an instant force field. On the other hand, consumerised taser tape could become the best thing since sliced electric bread: Keep roommates out of your beer fridge! Shocking revenge on your soon-to-be-ex who gave you the herp! [Prime Newswire via Danger Room] 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 »
Press
Policeman Tases Guy, Sets His Pants on Fire
3:40AM Gizmodo US Edition | Ok, we know bad things can happen when the general public use tasers, but cops tasing a guy and setting him on fire? No… really? Apparently the 31-year-old in question was causing a disturbance in an apartment in Hamilton, Ontario, recently, and three police officers attended. Whatever happened after that, the police ended up firing a taser at him. Unfortunately when the high-voltage device went off some sort of flammable object in his pants waistband caught fire. He sustained burns to his hands and thigh, and had to be taken to hospital. Ouch. Someone at some point must’ve started saying “Liar! Liar! Pants…” [Danger Room] More »
Weapons
Lipstick Stun Gun Comes In One Shade: Frazzled ‘Nads
11:19PM Gizmodo US Edition | Forget DIY camera stun guns: they’re just a stunt. If you want real pocket protection, these charmingly disguised stun guns can deliver 350,000 volts of agony to an assailant. Will they think it looks like you’re just brandishing a tube of lippy at them? Probably not an experiment to try. They have an LED flashlight built-in, and come with a charger. If carrying this around in your purse makes you feel safer, they’re available for a paltry US$49.95 in a variety of shades and shapes. So you can, you know, coordinate your electro-shock defence with your outfit. Weird. [Red Ferret via Gizmodo UK] More »
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