Long range taser - more crowd control technologies.


	Long range taser - more crowd control technologies.

The Infowarrior

10-2-2009 9:30 AM

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"What do you get if you cross a shotgun with a stun gun? A whole new set of risks, say researchers"

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10-2-2009 11:37 AM

Steve Savage

When I was in High School, after practice, one of my Football Team Mates (let us call him Joseph K.) would go to the house of some guy who would pay Joseph to throw tennis balls at his naked body, while he stood in the corner and cried out "EEW, EEEEW." He loved every minute of it.

If he were alive today, the police could make some good moonlighting money "harpooning" him at $150 a shot.

Extended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP); what will these sado-masochists think of next?

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