Triple-shot TASER X3 imminent, deranged employees celebrate with mock executions
By Paul Miller 
posted July 21st 2009 2:20PM
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i would love one of those...
"Don't tase me bro!"
"Nor me bro!"
"Or even me bro!"
Yes... don't taze me bro meme... we get it.
Here's a stool darkness. Stand on it and read the reply again...maybe it won't go so far over your head.
I just can't wait till the first YOUTUBE video of one of these in action shows up.
Right now, the tasing of the grandma, the baptist preacher (Anderson, the conservative wacko), and some Hispanic woman (from COPS) are big videos. With the X3, we'll get to see all three people tased SIMULTANEOUSLY !
I might live in a kingdom of Far Far Away,
What is a Taser??
It's like a cattle prod, except for cops.
Non lethal gun that electrocutes it's target. Almost all cops have them around here.
The multi-fire ability is very nice addition. Makes the chance of a miss easier to deal with in riots probably.
wow, taser taser taser... cops around here still use a "truncheon?"
it's another instrument in the arsenal for overweight, frightened, racist, crowd-control cops to use with very little forethought. Then there's a smaller number of cops who actually use them to avoid deadly force in real-life situations (as opposed to fear-fueled imaginations) and subdue dangerous perps.
non lethal my ass. The science is sponsored by the TASER company. The police in Vancouver are under investigation for killing a polish man in the airport by tasering him multiple times when there were 4 officers and the man was unarmed. They could have taken him down with arm strength alone but instead they killed him right in the Airport.
It is a gun, that shoots 2 prods onto the aimed person, and electroshock him/her. The prods have grips on them so that it sticks on cloths (but people where cut with them.. which raises the question of possible disease transfer if not cleaned properly)
TASER company research says it's non-lethal, despite having A LOT of people dying from it, from all ages (ok I can't say "all" in "all" as I don't think a 1 moth old baby got tasered, but you get the idea). All you need is to have the 2 prods cross a person heart and poof he/she is most likely dead, despite having bellow 1 amp of power. We all are different inside, some people heart is weaker than others... at a genetic or environmental level, it's simple as that. Also, although no actual proof of this has yet been shown, but some physicians says that some blood clog build up can get unstuck and pile up and cause blood flow problem to the brain or heart.
The TASER gun is widely used in the U.S and limited under Canada and still under great debate. I don't know about the other countries.
Don't be fooled...these things are deadly...remember Robert Dziekanski? Ridiculous.
Templarian: Non-lethal and electrocution are mutually exclusive terms.
@ Good_Bytes
You do realize that the Taser cartridges are throwaway, there is no possibility of disease transfer.
Always they debate you talk about is lost, when just about every police department carries one.
After all I'd still rather get shot with one of these than a gun.
@good
Your explanation is incorrect.
As someone stated, the cartridges are one time use, and they are sealed.
As for how the taser works, well the current is well well below 1 amp, and its not the initial shock that takes a person down, and in general (short of heart problems), getting hit in the heart area will not kill everyone.
The taser works by an initial high charge, then the voltage drops (from 50k to 5k I believe), this voltage drop is what sends the individuals nervous system into shock and incapacitates the individual.
As for its use.. heart problems or other pre existing conditions that would result in death aside, most would reather be tasered then shot, since when shooting, law enforcement is trained to shoot to kill, not to maim or incapacitate.
Jason: the problem is you're posing a false opposition. Of course I'd rather be shot by a taser than a gun, but that isn't the way they are used in the real world, practically speaking. There have been many, many documented cases where police have tasered someone they'd never have dreamed of shooting, and for many police departments, they're not even doing anything wrong: the guidelines on taser use *don't* say "only use it if the only other option is a gun".
BAHAHHHA! That was hilarious!
So why exactly are they shooting at the women and not men, lol, if you pay attention to the lady on the right it looks like it affected her the most
Yeah I saw her kicking her legs.
Perhaps the gun doesn't have enough juice to take down three large, over-weight men...just a guess. Three smaller females == better demonstration.
Let's see them fire all three at a single target.
It's fake propaganda from the company. None of them were actually tasered. Check out real video of people being tasered. It's quite a disturbing sight/sound.
It looks to me like the first shot only affected the first girl up to the point when he fired the second shot, which only affected the second girl until he fired the third shot, which then affected the third girl until he shut the unit off. It wouldn't make much sense to have all three lead pairs active as it would reduce the effectiveness at all three targets. The reason three separate people were used was most likely to demonstrate the rapidity with which one could fire the unit again in the event of a miss. The choice of women was likely to demonstrate the 'less than lethal' aspect of the unit against someone with a small frame.
As to why the men on either side were not affected; they might feel a slight electrical tingle while the woman is tasered, but would not offer a low enough resistance for the current to pass through them with the same effectiveness. If one were to have been struck by one lead while the other struck her, they would both feel the effects as the current would find it's way between the leads.
They looked fine when they got up, it didn't look like there was a charge going through it to me.
"Hey man, I got a new gun, let's go shoot some women"
WTF -.-
Those were clearly set on low power or something. Tasers usually have a far longer effect than what you saw where the two girls immeditely popped up, even if you don't continue to pull the trigger.
While they make sense for police, these could make horrible torture/incapacitation devices for rapists and other malevolent individuals..
@loosely_coupled - what do you mean, "could" ? Try, "are".
i think what they're trying to explain there is that their weapon is, whilst capable, safe to fire at women, who generally have a smaller body mass hence it would naturally be more dangerous for them
@RD
Its a propaganda piece & they didn't actually get tased? You really need to get out of the basement. Many Police academies require cadets to be tased so they know what it is like. They do it essentially the same way its done in the video (except without being in a line up). I have a friend who videoed their shock test. 2 guys hold the arms & when they get hit they go ridged & are laid on the floor till the shock is over & they are up in maybe 5 seconds. The taser is so that the police have time to get the suspect restrained, even with 2 or 3 officers its not always easy to get people into arm bars or holds so you can cuff them, but once the current stops the effects are gone in seconds.
Bahahah!
Bahahha!
Bahahah! That was hilarious!
Pontro its a gun that shoots a dart into a person and send a couple thousand volts of electricity through their body, its used by cops to instantly drop people to the ground, well most of the time
What would happen if you shot 1 person 3 times. would he/she feel the affects 3x as worse?
Potential death.
This is what happens:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dziekański_Taser_incident
better hope our cops RCMP don't get these!
Yea, Paul, because getting strong armed and several bones broken on both sides is way better than just getting a simple jolt from a Taser, right?
Some of you "omgz no tazzzeerrrs for the poh-leese y0!" bandwagoners really need to grow up.
Unless you happen to be smelling gasoline and the tase you and you go up in flames.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090721/twl-tasered-petrol-sniffer-bursts-into-f-3fd0ae9.html
Happened today.
Very interesting how differently the article you linked and this one paint the picture:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/21/australia.taser.fire/index.html?iref=24hours
This is why large grains of salt are needed when reading ... just about anything I guess.
I've just changed my mind about visiting the States...
Were you planning to engage in criminal activity, and subsequently resist arrest whilst here? If so, thanks for staying home.
@macserv
Many of us living outside the United Suburbia of America believe that you don't have to engage in any kind of criminal activity just to be tasered by law enforcement officers in your orwellian police state.
These things should be outlawed. Cop's don't have the restraint to use them appropriately.
right..lets let cops use their 9mm instead...idot!
So your other choices are:
* Getting smacked in the head with a baton
* Getting shot with a 9MM
I would say being tased would be my first choice, it might hurt like hell but should leave no lasting damage unlike the other too.
Not addressing whether they have restraint or not... but I'd rather be tased than shot.
I'm mostly referring to the "Don't tase me bro" video and a few others I have seen where Cops seem to have the situation under control and then still feel the need to further incapacitate the individual. My complaint isn't against the taser, its the person that's pulling the trigger that has a god complex.
Well that's a shame, but the only reason people become cops is that they have a god-complex. It sucks, but unless you become one, you can't really complain about the kind of people attracted to the profession.
False dichotomy is a sin.
The issue is many officers often use the Taser as a joke, they think it's a quick and easy way to deal with a situation when an old lady or someone is starting to scream. Cops have always been trained to take these people down by hand but in some situations the taser may be needed with someone wielding a weapon or something. The fact is there isn't enough training being done and so these tasers are being overused and promoted as safe when infact they do kill people. Lots of people die every year because of this. Just another weapon for the cops to kill us with.
Check the video where the cops shoot Oscar Grant in the back while he's unarmed and you want to give the cops more weapons?
Police state, don't step outta line in the grocery market or you might get tased and have your heart stop.
@lawyerbird
I don't have a god complex, I became a police officer to help people. Just because you've had a bad experience with an officer doesn't mean we're all bad. It's like me saying every commenter on Engadget and Digg are anti-law enforcement, crazy liberal, Apple fan boys, but I know that's not true either.