There’s a new Taser in town! The company’s 50,000 volt projectile – the Taser Grenade – can incapacitate those who need to be incapacitated at distances of up to 274m. The Daily’s Justin Rocket Silverman (Rocket!) has the distinction of being the first civilian to be zapped by the new weapon, an experience he takes quite stoically, though the company wouldn’t actually fire the thing at him and just shocked him with a box of Taser Grenade guts instead.
Ashley Agerenza tried to take her seven-month-old baby into Extreme Tan and Smoothies (real place) with her, only to find that infants weren’t welcome. So she did what any desperately pale mother would do: locked that baby in the car by herself with the engine running, attacked the cop who tried to arrest her for negligence, and got two Taser blasts for her trouble.
Over the last year, Chicago police have used tasers on people 683 times – an increase from just 197 times in 2009. That’s because the police department more than doubled its taser arsenal and stopped investigating every taser-related incident.
For some reason 18-year-old Zak Anthony King seemed surprised that police officers would threaten to taser him as he evaded arrest wearing nothing but swim goggles. And that wasn’t even the awkward part:
Mike Booen, vice president of Raytheon’s advanced security and directed energy systems, has “a vision”: “We want to get to the point where it’s a hand-held device.” “It” is the assault intervention device. Development in that direction is underway.
Chicago police officer Darren Pedota is at the centre of a lawsuit filed by a diabetic man who was Tasered 11 times over the course of a minute while suffering from a diabetic seizure.
