- No one seems to ever speak of this, yet this so-called
"non-lethal" device has killed a number of people. It's time
to look at the real electrical details of a Taser , and how it compares
to known electrical effects on the human body.
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- Some believe a taser is all about high voltage and no
current. A big lie and far from the truth. This only applies to static
electricity, when no capacitor is used. Tasers are also about current (amperage.)
A current of 20 milliamps (. 020 amps) or more is known to fatally stop
the human heart. Any voltage above 50 volts (such as a phone line) will
be felt as a tingle (or even worse.) The electric chair uses 2,300 volts.
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- The 90 volts AC that rings your telephone WILL HURT if
you have your fingers across the two wires when the phone rings. Remember
that telephone ringing voltage is just 30 volts less than your wall outlet
has. 50,000 volts from a Taser is FAR MORE HARMFUL, especially because
the Taser darts penetrate the skin, and connect to Taser's high voltage
transformer to the internal, highly conductive wet saline (salt) environment
of the human body.
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- In electrical engineering, any voltage over 48 volts
is not considered safe low voltage. Low voltage electrical code exempt
wiring is similar to that used for your stereo speakers, and on small DC
power packs used to replace batteries to power radios, tape players, CDs
etc... Any voltage higher than 48V (telephone lines) must be wired much
like house wire, with proper grounding and junction boxes. This is the
national electrical code.
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- Tasers output 50,000+ VOLTS. Even if a Taser's current
less than 20 milliamps, it may not matter if the person has a WEAK HEART.
A much lower current could still cause cardiac arrest. Autopsies have proven
THIS IS TRUE (see below.) But no manufacturer ever talks about this. So
let's look at how the "non-lethal" 50,000 VOLTS IS in a few cases
below. Remember these are some of the cases that made it to the media,
or were correctly identified as the cause DURING AN AUTOPSY performed shortly
after death:
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- 1. The Arizona Republic
- Aug. 6, 2004
- LeRoy Riddick, Alabama regional medical examiner, reported
in a June 28, 2002, autopsy that Clever Craig Jr., 46, died of a heart
attack during an episode of delirium "following electrical shock from
Taser while resisting arrest
- http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special43/articles/0806taserdeath06.html
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- 2. Vancouver Sun
- July 24, 2004
- For the second time in less than two months, Vancouver
police are investigating the death in custody of a man shot by a Taser
gun.
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- 3. Autopsy finds jail death accidental [prison death
after Taser use]
- Story about a Savannah, Georgia man who died in a jail
cell there shortly after an officer shocked him at least twice with a Taser.
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- http://www.saveourcivilliberties.org/en/2004/11/802.shtml
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- 4. Ft. Worth, Texas
- A man suspected of trying to illegally hook up electrical
service died after police shocked him with a stun gun (Taser) when he was
found hiding at an apartment complex, authorities said.
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- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/05/national/main653959.shtml
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- 5. A list of 19 fatal incidents and law suits involving
the weapon's use - many including children:
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- http://www.yourlawyer.com/practice/news.htm?topic=Taser%20Stun%20Guns
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- So as you can see above, the Taser is a harmless, non-lethal
weapon. It's a comfort to know that our police state enforcers use weapons
that can't kill you as quick as a bullet in the head. So what's wrong with
50,000 volts across your heart ? Why do you think you heart beats are based
on ELECTRICAL activity ? Just because doctors connect up WIRES to stick-on
electrodes on your chest to do an electrocardiogram - you think your heart
is based on electrical activity ? The electrocardiogram machine measures
voltages of just a .001 volts (ONE THOUSANDTH OF A VOLT) to detect a human
heart beat. So why would you think that 50,000 VOLTS will hurt you ?
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- About 160 volts is used to START the heart to bring a
life back, and a lesser voltage is used to STOP the heart in hospital operating
rooms on an exposed heart during open heart surgery. So why would you think
a voltage more than 300 times that from a Taser hurt you ? The manufacturers
of these devices tell us Tasers are harmless, and thus it must be so.
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- Enough rhetoric. SINCE THIS DEVICE IS INVASIVE AND NOT
INTENDED TO KILL LIKE A BULLET - BY LAW THE FDA SHOULD BE DISAPPROVING
THE USE OF THESE FATAL, NON-LETHAL WEAPONS BECAUSE THEY BREAK THE SKIN,
AND HAVE A RISK OF INFECTION, AND CAN/DO INTERFERE WITH CRITICAL BODILY
ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY.
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- DISEASES
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- So, if your heart survives the high voltage shock - what
about an infection from having two metal darts penetrate your skin and
connect to your body's blood circulation system ? Is that healthy, too
? Any common pathogens on anyone's skin (and on the dart tips that might
have come out of the dirty trunk of a police car or someone's side holster)
such as staph, bacteria, prions, viruses (like HIV,) mycoplasmas, or MRSA
will be INJECTED into your bloodstream by the two darts. It only takes
a fraction of a second for this infection to be inoculated into YOUR bloodstream.
The high voltage shock will increase your heart beat and help to spread
the infection faster. There doesn't appear to be any data on this at all,
yet it's almost a certainty and infection can occur based on well known
medical science.
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- Look at the pathetic weak excuses given in the few known
case histories shown above. Simple, harmless behavioral problems can bring
on a Taser punishment session from one of the police state thugs.
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- Do you think anyone or even the people listed above deserve
the life threatening risks (plural) associated with Taser use ?
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- Ted Twietmeyer
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- Comment
From Jim Mortellaro
- Jsmortell@aol.com
- 12-1-4
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- None of the examples used to demonstrate the lethal nature
of the TASER proves a thing. A heart attack is essentially an infarct,
or blockage of blood to the heart muscle(s) due to plaque buildup or a
clot stemming from any number of factors, none of which is the TASER.
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- A weak heart ... hmmm ... just what exactly is a weak
heart? Congestive heart failure? That comes closest and frankly speaking,
a little jolt does that body good. No, I am afraid that even if you multiplied
those 'examples' of yours by several orders of magnitude, it would not
matter, as this device has been well tested. Compared with the alternatives,
it is a walk in the park.
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- The TASER does not affect the heart muscle, nor does
it affect or disturb the electrical impulses which make the heart beat.
The TASER has no known medical way of causing an infarct or blood clot,
nor is the TASER known to affect the autonomic nervous system. And the
fact that on occasion, depending on the amount and type of clothing the
perp is wearing, it does penetrate the skin. Doesn't matter, as the amount
of voltage and current (i.e., power) increase over contact (not penetration)
is not significant.
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- The TASER does however, effect those portions nervous
system which preclude movement and temporarily disturbs the brain's ability
to think, act and move ... clearly not an issue or health hazard.
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- As for the 20 milliamps, it is utter nonesense to conclude
that this current is dangerous, even with 50,000 or up to 150,000 volts
applied to the victim. Interestingly, polcie departments have tested the
device on a number of members of the force. Especially the newbies. Heh,
heh. They get a kick out of TASERS.
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- The simple proof that the TASER is effective on only
the portions of the nervous system as described above is that the device
has literally NO EFFECT on someone on methamphetamines... most of the time.
I've seen such individuals continue to function quite normally when hit
hard with a TASER.
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- Last... would you, Mr. Twietmeyer, prefer that the police
use their firearms to stop a perpetrator? How about pepper spray? Nah,
may make the bad guy sneeze to death.
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- In conclusion, I suggest we just let those people go.
We don't wish to hurt them, eh. Well, that's my thought. Just the one thought
because I just shot myself with a tweezer and boy do my arms hurt.
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- Sheesh!
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- Jim Mortellaro, Ph.D.
Comment
K Dillon
12-1-4
Even the low voltage "exercise while sitting in your chair" muscle
stimulators have express warnings about using on or around the chest area.
And you're going to tell me a metal dart wired to 50-100,000 volts can't
effect the heart? Bullcookies!
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