Don't TASE me bro!

So I was at the firestation yesterday and they are joined with a police department. The PD was giving one of their new recruits a certification course on the Taser, so they also invited a new firefighter to do it to so he knew proper barb removal. They also invited me.

Went through the course learning about the taser, then we got tased ourselves. Afterword we were put in a scenario where the instructor would attack us and we'd have to tase him, reload and tase him again while he was fighting, tackling us to the ground and trying to tase us with out own taser... while he was in a pretty tase-resistant suit.



Video exist, but I don't have it yet. Depending on how wimpy it makes me look I'll have it up sometime next week, but I DO have pictures.

The longest 5 seconds of my life.







Edited by Linus - 27 February 2010 at 9:19am

You could just barely feel them the moment they were shot in, but by that time you were being shocked so the sharps we the least of your worries.

Them being taken out, however, was one of the best feelings ever.

Nice O face

I thought I was going to see my cousin get tased today. Sadly, I was let down.

Stupid cops walk around with their taser out and don't even use it? What the hell is this, where is the brutality? DAMN YOU!

Hairball!!! wrote: He looks a little round to be wearing MARPAT

Not real Marpat.  Didn't see any embedded EGAs in the pattern.

Fun facts you learn when writing about crime long enough:

1) Taser is a brand name that has been normalized much like Kleenex. It's made by Taser International Inc.
2) Thusly, it is a noun, not a verb. In a news story, someone can be shocked by a Taser, but they cannot be "tased."
3) The non-brand-specific term is "electroshock gun."

What ever happened to resizing pics to make them forum sized?

If we use it enough, it will become a legit word.

Or "global Warming"



/FE