Re: Use of Tasers

<Stuart B> wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:22:38 +0000, Phil Stovell <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:52:17 +0000, judith wrote:

According to Sylvester, he got out of his car and was surrounded by
officers, at least two of whom were carrying automatic weapons. Without
warning, one officer fired a Taser into the back of his head which made
him drop to his knees, he said. A second shock caused him to fall on his
face, breaking a front tooth. A further six shocks made him wet himself
and left him lying in the road in pain while the officers and sniffer
dogs
searched the car and found nothing.

They tasered him EIGHT times? He's lucky he's not dead.

We would appear to have a difference of opinion here .Now there's a
surprise .

"A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "Just after midnight on
the 20th, officers on an intelligence-led operation stopped a car in
Bounces Road, N9. The driver got out of the vehicle and was
subsequently Tasered. Our information is the Taser was deployed once."

Both can be valid.
The taser fires small barbed darts that trail connect to the 'pistol' by
wires.
The Taser was deployed once eg he was shot with the taser one time.
Once the darts hit the target is automatically shocked with a pulse. The
user has the option of pressing a button and firing another pulse.
So while the Taser was deployed once the target could have been shocked 8
times. The two are not mutually exclusive.

It is a fine piece of wordplay worthy of a politician.

Andy


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