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Monday, December 08, 2008

That calls for a tasing...

The eminently recyclable biomass piles which collectively call themselves Amnesty International are pissing and moaning about Tasers again:

Of the 41 Tasers tested, four delivered significantly more current than Taser International says is possible. In those cases, the current was up to 50 percent stronger than specified on the devices.

During the tests commissioned by CBC News and Radio-Canada, three Tasers didn't fire, even with charged battery packs. Those were set aside and not counted in the final results.

Wait; so they threw out the three that discharged at 0.0 volts, but counted the four that over-discharged by specification? That hardly seems fair; the average total discharge value was actually pretty close to the individual mean. It all averages out to 'x.x' volts-per-thug, after all. One must look at the overall effect on society, not whether Thug A gets a little more toasty than Thug B.

For example, if LaTron, Marquavious, and Lemonjello get an extra-heavy shock, maybe they'll forget their names. Then they can be renamed Larry, Mark and uh... anything else. They may even have a chance of getting real jobs afterward.

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