Thursday, August 7, 2008

Tasers aren't as nonlethal as they seem (Not Really?)

Andre Thomas was at the wrong place, at the wrong time in Swissvale (throw some cheese on it), PA Monday night after being tazed to death by the police. Clearly the 50,000 volts of tazeness didn't kill him it was "something" that occurred before, during or after the tazeness occurred. The Pittsburgh police have been tazer armed since '04 and are not required by law to be trained in tazin' before they taze.

Road-Rage-Taze!

That's what one road-rage filled woman threatened to do to an especially slow driver about 5 a.m. in Oakland this past winter. I watched her stick her head out of her SUV and scream a profanity-laden version of "Move or I'll Tase you" while I was walking to work.

Tazers don't really, can't possibility, and might be highly unlikely to cause death to reckless, uncontrollable, handcuffed human beings.

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