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Tasers Not As Safe As Previously Thought, 1/3 Of Victims Require Medical Attention

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2008-06-19 17:00:38 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
...tasers are a lot more dangerous than previously though. ...about one-third of people shot by Tasers reportedly required some form of medical attention. Those numbers were drawn from the Taser-use forms that RCMP officers are required to fill out whenever they draw the device, which revealed that 910 of the 3,226 people shot between 2002 and...
 
Tags: medical attention, tasers, people, people shot, medical attention engadget, tasers reportedly, tase-proof jackets, tase, one-third
 
 
 
 
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Taser Unveils MP3-Playing Holster, Tacky Leopard-Print Tasers [Please Taze Them, Bros]

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2008-01-07 14:14:23 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
...tasers that can be loaded up with 1GB of MP3s. Perhaps the most feature-free MP3 player we've ever seen, it has a mere 2 buttons and no screen on it. But hey, it holds a Taser! I'd like to see an iPod actually prevent you from being mugged instead of the other way around. Oh, and it also unveiled leopard print and pink Tasers, just in case...
 
Tags: tasers, taser, pink tasers, feature-free mp3 player, leopard print, mp3 players, belt hoster, political beliefs, common gadgets
 
 
 
 
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Tasers to replace Tupperware at women's product parties

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2008-02-26 10:28:10 by HASH0x8bf31b4 in DVICE
...Tasers themselves may be of the colorful, leopard-print variety . All this belies the fact that Tasers are not exactly harmless. In fact, according to one estimate nearly 200 people have been killed by Taser in the past five years, one as recently as October in the Vancouver airport After the jump, a short video of Shafman getting hit in the...
 
Tags: parties, taser, taser parties, taser party concept, tasers, shafman, dana shafman, tupperware parties, yorker article
 
 
 
 
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When Stun Guns Go Wrong: Police Tase Guy, Set His Pants Alight [Tasers]

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2008-04-23 13:40:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...tasers, but cops tasing a guy and setting him on fire? No... really? Apparently the 31-year old in question was causing a disturbance in an apartment in Hamilton, Ontario recently, and three police officers attended. Whatever happened after that, the police ended up firing a taser at him. Unfortunately when the high-voltage device went off...
 
Tags: police, pants, pants waistband, police officers, high-voltage device, flammable object, tasers, guy, fire
 
 
 
 
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Policeman Tases Guy, Sets His Pants on Fire [Tasers]

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2008-04-23 13:40:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...tasers, but cops tasing a guy and setting him on fire? No... really? Apparently the 31-year-old in question was causing a disturbance in an apartment in Hamilton, Ontario, recently, and three police officers attended. Whatever happened after that, the police ended up firing a taser at him. Unfortunately when the high-voltage device went off...
 
Tags: pants, fire, pants waistband, police, police officers, high-voltage device, flammable object, tasers, guy
 
 
 
 
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Tasers are all the rage with consumers these days

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2008-05-18 16:35:13 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
...Tasers, especially the recently released C2 model. Available in a variety of colors, including a leopard skin print (tacky?), the consumer-level Taser does just enough to knock out any would-be attacker named John Biggs Oh, and Tupperware parties for the Taser are now fashionable. Thats good, encourage violence left and right. Thats the basis...
 
Tags: consumer-level taser, taser, leopard skin print, harpers bazaar, tupperware parties, tasers, healthy society, encourage violence, awesome
 
 
 
 
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Probe finds one-third of people shot by Tasers need medical attention

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2008-06-19 14:38:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...Tasers reportedly requiring some form of medical attention. Those numbers were drawn from the Taser-use forms that RCMP officers are required to fill out whenever they draw the device, which revealed that 910 of the 3,226 people shot between 2002 and 2007 had to go to a medical facility, and that "many more" people had minor injuries but...
 
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CBC / Radio Canada exposé finds Tasers are unreliable killjoys

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2008-12-05 12:59:00 by Laura June in Engadget
...Tasers are unreliable killjoys originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
 
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Taser brings mans heart back to normal

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2008-05-29 15:00:49 by Ally in Coolest Gadgets
Tasers have been used by cops for centuries, alright, maybe not that long, but long enough. By now you would think we know all we need to know about them. They zap, it hurts, end of story. One thing tasers are not supposed to be able to do is affect ones heart in anyway. Well recent events have doctors concerned about the use of tasers....
 
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