Experimenting with a Tazer....

Tractors4u · Aug 26, 2004

( like getting hit with an electric fence when you are wet )

When I was about 12 or 13 one of my summer time hobbies was to go down to the creek with a 410 shotgun and shoot snakes. I would hang my trophies over the stop signs at the crossroads down from my house. Yes this is redneck entertainment! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I used a frog gig with a metal pole to fetch my trophies from the creek. One day I was standing at the edge of the bridge retrieving one of my kills when I hooked the neighbors electric fence with my frog gig. Yes, one of the barbs hung the fence and the fence had a constant current. It felt like they had the wire ran straight to a 220v outlet. I couldn't feel my arm for about 20 minutes, I dropped my gig in the creek and had to go back the next day for it.

DavidJ · Aug 26, 2004

OK, I don't know a guy that Tazed himself but... I know a guy that defibrillated his calf muscle. He tried it through his jeans and after several attempts of it not working he got the bright idea that it needed skin contact so he set it back to the lowest setting and pulled up his pants leg and lubed it up and touched the paddles to opposite sides of his calf and pushed the button. Needless to say he won't try that again. It left bruises and he said it felt like someone had hit his leg with a ball bat as hard as they could swing.

Bird · Aug 26, 2004

( My brother is a sheriff and in training they have to be hit with one of these )

I think that's quite common now; glad I retired before they started that. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Poppa · Aug 26, 2004

My daughter just kept asking, "Poppa why are you laughing? Poppa, Why are you crying?"

Thanks,

Mike

Egon · Aug 26, 2004

I do beleive that there have been deaths associated with the use of tasers.

Egon

Loges1 · Aug 26, 2004

My sis-in-law has one that is supposed to look like a cell phone. It will shoot fire between the prongs when you push the button, but that is the scariest thing about it. Bro-in-law just had to try it out. Him first, then the nephew, then he got me. I've had "weed burner" electric fences nail me harder than that. I told sis-in-law that if she used that on someone she had one spot and only one spot where it might do any good /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif.

JayC · Aug 26, 2004

rofl!!! That was a hilarious read. Thanks! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

PBMAX · Aug 26, 2004

Now that my eyes are dry... My wifes 1st cusin and a couple of other just had to see what bark coller felt like.... So he tried it... held it to his throat and made barking noises. After few tries he didn't think he could bark right to make it work.... WRONG... I
laughed as hard then as just now...But to relay add to it, one of his friends had to try it to.... he couldn't be shown up....

My turn... I think not, i'll stick to 120v/277v stuff.... O' ever seen what happens when you put 277vac on the 277v input of a dual voltage transformer and at the same time put the nuetral on the 115v input.... instead of nuetral... I seen it today!!!! Thank fully I didn't do it..... honest... I was just an inoccent by stander this time.... Makes a pretty light for an instant and a bit of smoke....

bgott · Aug 27, 2004

I used to hang out in a bar that had a few Hell's Angels as patrons. There was this girl that hung around with them who's father was scared to death of her choice of friends so he bought her the most expensive tazer you get at the time in case she needed it. She showed it to her buddies and they thought it was great fun. They were putting it on their own arms and cutting it loose, all the while describing how it felt and commenting on how it made their arm muscles bulge out . I skipped that experience /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif.

Joe1 · Aug 28, 2004

A couple of years before I retired from Federal Law Enforcement, we were issued Pepper Spray, the 10% law enforcement stuff. The powers that be wanted us to be shot in the face with it so we would know what it felt like. ( Bull Spit. I've got one set of eyes and one set of lungs, both of which are near 60 years old, and I kind of want them to last a lifetime).

Subjecting yourself to pepper spray voluntarilly is just plain stupid, just like making security people get hit with a tazer, which is just sadistic. Do that to enough people and someone will get killed from a heart attack. I now a policeman that tazered a guy leaning on a wooden barroom bar. The officer's night stick was touching the bar, and the shock knocked the officer off his feet.

I've been through tear gas training twice and I don't need that again either.

I carried both a .38 and later a 9mm. I didn't need to be shot to know it would have an effect on me.