Taser Exposure: A Potential Health Hazard, Even Death

Taser International, the manufacturer of TASER
“stun guns”, is clear in its message to potential training instructors of their
taser device. If you want to experience a “TASER device electrical discharge,
referred to as "TASER Exposure", (rather than realistically being shot), a waiver not to
sue must first be signed.

The training provided by TASER International to
purchasers is to ensure that because of the numerous health combinations that
might kill a victim the responsibility of wrongful death is not laid at TASER
International’s Corporate door.

For example, soldiers, or police armed with tasers
at a road block would unlikely ask people if they had any health condition that
might be aggravated by a sudden electrical charge to their body. They would probably claim that the victim was fit and well
after they had shot him or her.

In brief, while using a Taser:

Avoid Sensitive Areas  [of the body]:

“Significant injury can occur from TASER device
deployment into sensitive areas of the body such as the eyes, throat, or
genitals – avoid intentionally targeting these areas without
justification”

Avoid Known Pre-existing Injury Areas:

“Avoid targeting the back [for] persons with known
pre-existing back injuries, ….. or with known history of previous heart attacks
…etc. These injuries may be provoked by such deployment”

Other Conditions:

"Unrelated to TASER exposure conditions such as
excited delirium, severe exhaustion, drug intoxication or chronic drug abuse,
and or over-exertion from physical struggle may result in serious injury or
death".

I wonder if extended travel while under stress
could make a person more susceptible to die on being shot by a taser
weapon?

As in the case of stressed passengers who might be
very tired who are likely to experience ‘official’ questioning at their arrival
point; as was the case of a Polish man at Vancouver airport recently.

Taser International have listed more than twenty
clauses in their ‘Covenant Not to Sue’ which can be accessed here.