i like how he says "it's like 50,000 volts going into your body" ... as though 10,000 would be better ... or that we can even quantify a number like that in relation to volts.

anyway ... no f&%@ing way, man. count me out.

thank you, merced paper, for saving us the embarrassment, er, time.

Hard-to-the-core journalism! I was waiting for Steve-O to come out and say "Yeah, dude!" Way to take one for the team, Merced Sun Star-guy!

The first guy screamed like a little girl. At least the old dude took it like a man!

im immune to police taser they wonce try to get me 100,000 volt , I just laugh at them ..ha

thoughts on this:

-to my knowledge, all members of any organized force (police, security, etc,) have to be tazed first before they are certified to use a tazer, (so they all know what it's like.)

-what freaks me out is not the voltage and such -it's the little sticker things nailing you in the skin...

-I was talking to a client once, and their daughter came in, (she was headed out for the evening, nice kid, kinda youngish, maybe sixteen to eighteen or so, seemed like a nice quiet girl,)
'...so tell 'em what you guys do sometimes at the club.'
'...well, the security guard, if you ask him nice, will taze you.'
'?!'
'-oh yeah, he's tazed me, it's cool.'
(sidenote: ever notice that coctails have gone from 'mimosa's' to having names like 'fuzzy navel,' and 'sex on the beach,'
to
'car-bomb.')

WT--

It's a common fallacy that the stun guns or electric zappers that security guards carry are Tazers.

They're not. Even if they deliver 50,000 volts (it's the amps, not the volts!) and can be triggered, it still ain't a tazer.

Oh, yeah, I've been. My cuz does National Law Enforcement training, and loves using me as a 'subject.' OC Pepper spray was the worst, but Tazer-ing was really close. The Taze just lasts for a quick few seconds (and yes, the hooks hurt!), but hours later you find yourself re-living the shiver. (the pepper spray effects last for 30-40 minutes).

Those stun guns? They just feel like a dart or metal OUCH is running between the nodes. It hurts, but the Tazer is debilitating! You hit the ground and tense up like a rock.

Give me none of the above, thankyouverymuch.

Steph
-yeah, I know.
I happen to know the difference between a tazer and a stun gun. (As well as varying models and degrees of impact of both.)

Please read the statement:
'...to my knowledge all members of any organized force (police, security, etc.) have to be tazed first, before they are certified to use a tazer, (so they'll know what it's like...)'

-where do you see any reference to a 'stun gun,' in that?
There are levels of security that involve a multitude of weaponry and devices, the comment was regarding anyone certified to use a tazer.

-also know about amps vs. volts. (assuming we both went through public schooling at the same era.)

I personally never had to be trained to use a tazer nor a stun gun, (just regular ones.)
-I'm not aware of traditional broadcast training where you have to shoot somebody else with a traditional bullet.
(Tazer: quite the opposite.)

I think that those who are certified with a tazer should experience it first, (if they are to be certified.)
It's important to understand how a person will react, and (I think,) better helps the user of the device to really think about when and how to use the device.
(It makes sense, most of the trainings I received involved practicing with each other, -and it really helps a person to maintain a sense of empathy, which also helps in settling the exascerbated person down, how to guide them to do what is being required, and bring the situation under control quicker and more effectively.

That somebody would do such a thing as a form of entertainment (re: the teenaged girl's enthusiasm (she'd been tazed at least twice,) -and I've seen demonstrations of chains of people getting shocked holding on to the electrodes (fired,) etc.)
To me is just bizarre.