Monday, May 19, 2008

Shocking news

The NSW Police (previously known also as the NSW Police Force and/or NSW Police Service) has announced they are introducing tasers. Tasers, for those not familiar, are devices that shoot out wires which attach to a person (piercing their skin) and deliver an electric shock large enough to incapacitate someone but not enough to kill them (so they say although their are numerous taser-related deaths on record in North America). It's useful in situations where (capsicum spray hasn't worked and) the alternative is to use "deadly force" aka shoot people.
Taser has been on the web lately because they have just demo'd their latest invention: peel-and-stick taser tape that will turn any surface into the equivalent of an electric fence. Obvious law-enforcement applications are police shields; and if it's made available to the general public - there is a line of consumer tasers for personal use - there's no limit to possible applications.

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