Thugs the world over are learning to outwit the Taser. As long as there’s more than one of you, you’re scot-free! The single-shot nature of the air Taser has always been frustrating to victims, too: once you zap a fool, you’re done! No “and here’s one for your old man” to be had there. But fear not, Taser hears your cries (and the cries of those you’ve tased), for they now have created a three-shot Taser that allows for multiple attacker takedown. Or just three times the punishment for a single attacker. I see no way in which this could be a problem for anybody.
In the video above, three willing participants get tased (Tased?) in the back, and the looks on their faces are priceless. The Taser X3, for so the device is called, packs enough juice to incapacitate three young women apparently, but also adjusts the voltage so no real harm is done. I don’t think anybody here believes that, but at least they’re acknowledging that harm is a distant possibility.
[via Giz]
haha i love the line, “but also adjusts the voltage so no real harm is done.” This taser just reminds me of that scene from The Hangover when the cops let the kids Taze the drunk dudes. haha good stuff http://ziggytek.com/
“enough juice to incapacitate three young women apparently”
Plans for later, Devin?
My question is, why pick women? The whole thing seems rather creepy.
It’s not just creepy – its F#CKING LAME !!
Those Taser freaks need to be put out of business.
And those “security” goggles – WTF. They’re really taking us for the biggest idiots…
I’m speachless…
Statistically aren’t attackers more likely to be men? Or at least, women more likely can be overcome without the need for a taser, we are physcially weaker in general.
So why have 3 woman as volunteers? Maybe the men were too scared. :P
I really hope they’ve ensured it’s safe to fire all 3 at once person. You just know that’s what will happen a lot.
I wish I knew the science / tech behind it adjusting the voltage. I really don’t believe it could calculate that from just the potential difference between the 2 darts.
whats up with her nose?
Was that second woman’s answer to the question “Would you do that again?” “If you asked, maybe.” ??? WTF
How suave would you need to be to convince a woman to be tasered twice on a first date?
Taser KILLS. Taser corporation is trying to hide the deaths from police using Tasers.
lol @ “Would you do it again” followed with an immediate “no.”
then the eager one: “if you asked, maybe”
“but also adjusts the voltage so no real harm is done.”
Ahem. Amperage do harm, not voltage. An ordinary static shock from touching a doorknob after shuffling your feet across a carpet is about 100,000 volts if my memory serves correctly. I can’t seem to find the amperage that a Taser puts out, though it’s obviously it’s high enough to kill in some instances.
That said, Tasers are not “non-lethal weapons,” as they are so frequently called. They’re weapons that cause serious pain, and have a chance of not killing you. (Unless your on the receiving end from a triple attack, in which case you’re history.)
Can a weapon, be a weapon and be truly non-lethal? I mean percentage wise how many people have died from a Taser? I realize that it has happened, but it’s better than the alternative of the police using a gun every time.
These would be great for personal protection, but are lousy because law enforcement takes them as a license to “disarm” any one, regardless of such person’s real threat. Police use should be strictly regulated.
Great..they can take out 3 young tiny women… wow I am terribly impressed…
normal tasers cost $50 per reload, I wonder what the taxpayer is going to get zapped for with the new 3x cartridges. I say make cops pay for their refills.
@redwall – While you are correct in that amperage is the important part regarding whether it’s fatal or not, what you seem not to realize is that amperage is dependent on voltage. Amperage is equal to the voltage applied divided by the electrical resistance it is facing. Adjusting voltage therefore also adjusts the current output and adjusts how likely it is to be fatal.
That said, I certainly don’t trust a handheld device to be able to make those adjustments fast enough to do serious harm, but if they could adjusting voltage would do the trick.