Welcome to Ozark, Arkansas, where police officers taser 10-year-old girls.

Over at Wired's Danger Room blog, David Hambling has an extensive post up about a new series of "less-lethal" weapons from "controversial electroshock weaponeer" Taser International. , is shown above.

As Hambling notes, results from safety and field tests of Taser's new gear, which includes the eXtended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP) above, is coming along far more slowly. — Read the rest

Rogier says:

It's not every day that police officers gang up on a toy cougar and taser it into submission. Such an event ought to be commemorated, don't you think? Annually, perhaps.

From redOrbit:

Police in Michigan responding to a report of a cougar on the loose said they ended up shooting a large toy cat with a Taser stun gun.

A naked man at the Coachella festival didn't want to put on his clothes, so the police wrestled him to the ground and tasered him multiple times. The crowd, who didn't seem to mind the naked wizard, booed the police, and called them names. — Read the rest

Loraksus sez, "The recently released report about Taser use by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is quite interesting.

Not only did they find that RCMP did an "inadequate" review of the literature available on Tasers and had an 'overreliance' on anecdotal information. — Read the rest

These newlyweds know how to party. They were tasered and arrested at their raucous wedding reception, and two days later they were tasered and arrested again.

(Photo by Kacper Skowron/For the Sun-Times)

"The short version of the story is they didn't want to quit their partying," said Mike Sepic, Berrien County, Mich.,

This 1500 volt proto-taser glove was spotlighted in the September, 1935 ish of Modern Mechanix:

MORE punch than can be found in a box-glove is contained in a new electric glove invented by Cirilo Diaz of Cuba for use by police while handling rough characters or in quelling riots.

Driver with his family gets pulled over. When officer won't point out speed limit sign driver was accused of ignoring, driver refuses to sign ticket. Officer shoots man with taser, lets him fall and cut his head, then arrests him.

As the hero explained to a colleague a few minutes later, Massey [the driver] was "making me nervous as hell" by his insistence on being treated as a reasonable adult, rather than behaving like a timid child.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in England is investigating an incident involving police who tasered a man in a coma because he was unresponsive.

Mr Gaubert said he was on his way to meet friends when he suffered a hypoglycaemic fit on the bus which left him slumped on his seat clutching his rucksack.

Here's a video of the distraught non-English speaking man from Poland who died from being tasered at the Vancouver Airport. He can be seen throwing a chair and trying to break other things.

When security arrives, he calms down and doesn't appear to be acting in a threatening manner. — Read the rest

At New Scientist's Last Word blog, a reader posed the question of how one might reduce the unpleasant shock if they're about to be tased (bro). There are quite a few interesting answers. Apparently being high on meth seems to help. — Read the rest

Akezys says: "Recently police at the Vancouver airport were attempting to question a recent immigrant that could not speak English. They tasered him after 24 seconds of speaking with him. The man had spent 10 hours stuck in the airport with no-one helping him." — Read the rest

A man is suing police in Portland because they tasered him and shot him with a beanbag while he was videotaping their search of his neighbor's house.

Frank Waterhouse of Oregon is suing Portland police after he was tasered and shot with a beanbag gun.

Link, by — who else? — Ape Lad.

While we're at it, Salon's Farhad Manjoo has an interview with one eyewitness who seems to believe that the tasered student, Andrew Meyer, may in fact have been a bit of a troll, egging cops on for an "overreaction that would make him a viral video star." — Read the rest

Foozymandias says:

I couldnt get to my camera in time to record his entrance, but this guy basically comes running in with 4 or 5 cops in tow and says he has been running around trying to get in to ask a question and the cops are going to arrest him for it.

Taser, Inc. has announced a self-contained taser missile that's fired from a shotgun. PopMech has a video, which shows the creepy little thing being fired by a robot.

Continuing to strike fear into the hearts of, well, everyone, Taser has released an electrified round that works with any 12-gauge shotgun.

…according to the folks at Wired News' blog "Danger Room." The conflict involves an earlier item on the blog titled "Taser Zaps Critics – So Far" (Link), which questions the stun gun maker's claims that "Zapping someone with 50,000 volts will never, ever, under any circumstances, help kill him." — Read the rest

Mumu bought a 100,000-volt pocket-sized taser as a gift for his wife. Because it uses just 3 AAA batteries, he thought he could give himself a test jolt without suffering too much. He was mistaken.

The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.

In 1991, high voltage maker Greg Leyh of Lightning On Demand (LOD) and Survival Research Laboratories built a 110,000 volt "Taser Cannon." Outfitted with 30 barrels and pneumatic tilt and pan, the Taser Cannon "delivers" a high-current plasma channel to targets 35 feet away. — Read the rest

Twenty-two-year-old Charles Littleton of Saginaw, Mich. was tasered for refusing to leave a city council meeting because he defied a rule banning men from wearing hats. Even after being shocked he would not remove his LA Dodgers cap. "It means more than just a hat," he said. — Read the rest