Tag: TASER

Do you have one of those "friends" who only calls you when he or she is hosting a "party" to sell some product or another? Companies like Mary Kay Pampered Chef rely on these so-called friends pumping everyone they know for cash to do their business, and while just a few years ago sex toy parties were all the rage, a new type of retail party is starting to make the rounds of living rooms across ...

Oh Taser, your house of cards is about to come crumbling down, blown apart by the winds of US litigation and the righteous fury of your mostly innocent victims. Last Friday, a federal jury in San Jose, California found the stun-gun-maker responsible for the death of Robert Heston Jr., a 40-year-old man, and has awarded his family more than $6 million in damages. Sure, Heston had an enlarged ...

We may normally think of Tasers as being non-lethal, but a rash of recent "taser"-ings in the United States and Canada have ended with a bit of death for the victim of the low voltage electric weapon. It's led to a slew of bad press, but now a committee at the UN is getting in on the Taser-bashing party by declaring the ubiquitous stun-gun a form potentially lethal form of torture. Three young ...

Unless you're "in the industry," you probably don't know that there's actually a brand name out there called Taser. They're the guys who make, you know, tasers -- kinda like Q-Tips, except they incapacitate their victims and aren't nearly as fun to pick your nose with. Taser is the company that make tasers for the police, so you know they work. Now the folks at Taser have released their first ...