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igotthisguitar
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 Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:59 am Post subject: Tasered Pig Studies Raise Serious Safety Issues |
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Chicago Study Calls Taser's Safety Claims Into Question
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | 6:05 AM ET
CBC News
Taser stun guns may not be as safe as their manufacturer claims, according to a study carried out by Chicago researchers, CBC News has learned.
The team of doctors and scientists at the trauma centre in Chicago's Cook County hospital shot 11 pigs with Taser guns in 2006, hitting their chests with 40-second jolts of electricity, pausing for 10 to 15 seconds, then hitting them for 40 more seconds.
When the jolts ended, every animal was left with heart rhythm problems, the researchers said. Two of the animals died from cardiac arrest, one three minutes after receiving a shock 
The findings call into question safety claims made by Taser International, the Arizona company that makes the stun guns, which are used by dozens of police departments across Canada.
According to Taser International's website, "independent medical and scientific experts have determined Taser devices to be ... among the safest use-of-force options available."
Taser director Mark Kroll has also published a paper called Safety of Taser Electronic Devices, in which he says when electricity kills, it is an immediate death that occurs within four seconds because electricity can't linger in a living being's body "like a poison."
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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/01/30/taser-study.html
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| How dare you try to benefit from the one world government's torture of pigs! |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| How dare you try to benefit from the one world government's torture of pigs! |
wtf? |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting test. I move that we petition law-enforcement agencies across the nation to order their officers to stop tasering suspect pigs henceforward. They ought to find another way to deal with pigs-with-attitude...
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I would rather be tazered than shot. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Czarjorge wrote: |
| I would rather be tazered than shot. |
You a pig-czar? |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Are all "Americans"? |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
Interesting test. I move that we petition law-enforcement agencies across the nation to order their officers to stop tasering suspect pigs henceforward. They ought to find another way to deal with pigs-with-attitude...
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Gopher, where did you get that picture of IGTG? Wait, that's an insult to Miss Piggy. I take it back.
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
Gopher, where did you get that picture of IGTG? Wait, that's an insult to Miss Piggy.
I take it back.
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There ya go ...  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Pork should be well-cooked. What's wrong with a little pre-cooking? |
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cerulean808
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| There was a news story about a pet pig that rescued a young boy from the family pool. The expression on the pigs face in the photo op with the boy was too human... |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
| Czarjorge wrote: |
| I would rather be tazered than shot. |
You a pig-czar? |
Assuming you were in the process of committing a violent crime, would you rather be tasered or take a round to the chest? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Czarjorge wrote: |
| I would rather be tazered than shot. |
Heart disease is the number 1 killer in America. The silent disease.
Zap someone with ticker or blood plumbing problems and they're probably more likely to die of a heart attack as a result.
This ain't rocket science.
And a taser is NOT the alternative to a gunshot in most cases: it's an alternative to continued communication and physical contact, in instances when deadly force is believed NOT needed, yet in fact that is what is being provided.
Tasers are an escalation of force. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| Czarjorge wrote: |
| I would rather be tazered than shot. |
Heart disease is the number 1 killer in America. The silent disease.
Zap someone with ticker or blood plumbing problems and they're probably more likely to die of a heart attack as a result.
This ain't rocket science.
And a taser is NOT the alternative to a gunshot in most cases: it's an alternative to continued communication and physical contact, in instances when deadly force is believed NOT needed, yet in fact that is what is being provided.
Tasers are an escalation of force. |
I've seen videos of guys with swords being tasered. They would have normally been shot. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| Tasers are an escalation of force. |
Perhaps people with heart problems should refrain from activities that might get them tasered. |
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