Tag: TASER

Remember when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homerun record in 1974, and received a pat on the back from two college students who stormed the field to circle the bases with him? It's still one of the most iconic images in sports. But if Hammerin' Hank broke the record in 2010, it's all but certain that those two kids would never make it anywhere near the slugger before getting tasered and subdued ...

At this year's CES, Taser International introduced its new Protector Family Safety Program, a line of products aimed at helping helicopter parents maintain constant surveillance of their kids' online activity. Taser's products allow parents to not only see what texts or e-mails their kids may exchange, but to actually listen in on their conversations, too. The package comes with software that can ...

Despite its wares being billed as "non-lethal," we'd rather not find ourselves on the business end of a product from Taser International, which designs weapons that use a strong dose of electricity to incapacitate people. After learning about the company's latest venture, we don't think we'll change our minds any time soon, either. According to New Scientist, Taser is set to deliver prototypes of ...

Last Friday, sheriff's deputies in Scott County, Mississippi began hearing reports of two escaped emus terrorizing (okay, maybe not terrorizing) the area around the small city of Forest. Unable to find the flightless felons, deputies continued to field calls over the weekend, until finally this past Sunday, they located one of the winged renegades where it was weaving through traffic on ...

To paraphrase Robert Duvall in 'Apocalypse Now,' there's nothing like the smell of manure and live ammunition in the morning. (Or, something like that.) In this case, it was a Saturday morning in Michigan. Casey and Tina Jahn were busy spreading manure and lime across their fields in Huron Township this weekend when an unidentified neighbor stormed out to the fence line with his shotgun in hand, ...

A recent incident in Australia has provided a new and incredibly speedy way of incapacitating sniffers who enjoy the intoxicating aroma of inhalants. On Monday, police were called to the Warburton house of 36-year-old Ronald Mitchell, who, according to the Daily Telegraph, had apparently been sniffing gasoline. Mitchell allegedly rushed the officers, who were armed with Tasers, and ignored ...

Taser, maker of the controversial "less-lethal" weapon that zaps people with incapacitating levels of electricity (described as torture by the U.N.), has just released its latest tool for taking out the odd student protester and great-grandmother. The X12 Taser shotgun combines the occasionally lethal fun of electrocuting people with the also occasionally lethal impact of "non-lethal" shotgun ...

The stun gun now comes in convenient lipstick-shaped form, which is weird (and perhaps a bit dangerous), but not exactly earth-shaking in the world of wacky personal safety devices. While protection and awareness are crucial for modern day living, a couple of these gadgets feel a bit too excessive -- or ridiculous -- to deter anyone from anything (but may make a great gift for your favorite ...

Personal safety is no laughing matter, but when it comes in such conveniently fashionable packaging, we can't help but chuckle a little bit. Pepper spray and mace are things of the past with the Lipstick Stun Gun, a tiny, makeup-sized, shocking device made for the modern woman. Complete with an LED flashlight, safety pin, and a convenient, take-anywhere charger, the zapper fits in any purse. ...

'Second Life' has reached another virtual milestone -- it's being sued by Taser, the world's largest manufacturer of stun guns, for trademark infringement. 'Second Life,' run by Linden Research Inc., is a virtual online community of users that use avatars to 'live' and 'work' within a user-generated world. According to Bloomberg, Taser is claiming trademark infringement, since users can buy ...

Airport security is cool and all, but when we're being forced to undress, bend over, and throw away our $4 Pepsi while a lady in Albany somehow gets her stun gun past the security checkpoint, we start to lose faith that this is all serving the greater good. On Saturday, Amy Burns passed through the security checkpoint at Albany International Airport with her child and a stroller in tow. It ...

You know you have acted like an idiot when your own attorney mocks you in open court. Ricky Hodgkinson, a 26-year-old man from Perton, England was compared by his own legal representative to Homer Simpson after he shot himself with a million-volt taser. Hodgkinson had purchased the illegal taser from a friend and wanted to see if it worked. The only logical thing to do at that point ...

The CBC and Radio Canada have run a bunch of Taser tests recently, and the results aren't likely to reassure anyone. US-based testing lab National Technical Systems pulled 41 X26 units out of 7 random police stations across the nation, and fired each at least six times. What happened? Well, four of them threw off a current "significantly" higher than a stun gun is supposed to, including some that ...

Two attempted shoplifters at a Kansas Wal-Mart shocked an employee with a Taser when he tried to bar them from leaving the store, Propeller learned today from Say What?. Amazingly, the employee -- with the help of a colleague -- managed to retain the two women until authorities arrived. While, according to Say What?, the women are being charged with both theft and battery, the assaulted ...

While the last Taser study we came across found that the devices were safe and caused only a few trips to the hospital, a joint investigation by CBC News and the Canadian Press has now turned up some decidedly different findings, with about one-third of people shot by Tasers reportedly requiring some form of medical attention. Those numbers were drawn from the Taser-use forms that RCMP officers ...