" TALLAHASSEE -- A total of 43 children were directly and indirectly shocked by electric stun guns during simultaneous ''Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day'' events gone wrong at three state prisons, according to new information provided Friday by the Florida...
created by VLOGZ | 2 years ago 150 views | 22 recommendations | 2 comments
"CHICAGO - Dave Tiderman wondered if the decimal point was in the wrong place when he opened his $35,000 company bonus. Jose Rojas saw his $10,000 check and thought, "That can't be right.""The company shared $6.6...
After a period of calm, events in Thailand are heating up again, with protestors renewing their push to unseat the government."Thousands of anti-government protesters surrounded Parliament on Tuesday, trapping...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 213 views | 14 recommendations | 5 comments
While much of the former RCMP commisioner's interview with CBC apparently focused on the denying of information to CSIS and the RCMP during the Arar investigation, Guiliano Zaccardelli also said it was time to...
created by Rob Walker | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 312 views | 6 recommendations | 3 comments
More than 20 people in Canada have died after Taser incidents now, raising some obvious questions about the weapon's safety. At what point can the police no longer ignore such a crucial safety issue?Check out a...
created by Rob Peters | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 309 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Only days after a major British Columbia public inquiry into Taser use by police (read the story here), another scandal has hit the headlines after an 82-year-old man recovering from heart bypass surgery was...
created by Rob Walker | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 559 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This gives a whole new meaning to "Is there a fire in your pants or are you just glad to see me?""A Hamilton man Tasered by police is in hospital after the stun gun ignited a "flammable object" in his pants,...
created by PEP | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 489 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
"A powerful rechargeable stun gun with safety cord now in the size and shape of an ordinary lipstick. It does not get any better than this. Womens self defense in the 21st century.You have to see this to realize...
created by nukegingrich | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 567 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
I wish I could make this sort of thing up."“I think the other thing that we can’t lose sight of is the fact that we’re putting these on the street in an effort to protect women and individuals — not to...
created by insaniac | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 773 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Yep, Taser use is still controversial, and a recent study has the traumatized pigs to prove it."HAMILTON CITY, Calif. (Map, News) - A Glenn County sheriff's deputy shot a man with a Taser gun for allegedly riding...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 520 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Yet more Taser turmoil in Vancouver, this time at a high profile event attended by our head of state. There are so many police in the Downtown Eastside, it seems odd they couldn't handle one guy without...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 442 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
The United Nations has added a new chapter to the ongoing controversy surrounding the use of tasers as law enforcement tools. The UN Committee Against Torture said on Friday that the use of a taser can be...
created by ryan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1108 views | 29 recommendations | 6 comments
There's been so much press about Tasers lately--looks like the company that makes them is deciding to capitalize. I wonder if the metallic pink Taser would match my pink iPod. "As the RCMP launches a fresh...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 426 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Just as the international uproar over the polish man who was videotaped being tasered and then dying at a Vancouver Airport is reaching its peak, another story comes out about someone dying after being hit by a...
created by Rob Walker | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2800 views | 15 recommendations | 7 comments
Yet more fuel on the fire that is the taser debate: another person died this week after being tasered by Canadian police, this time a 39-year-old Quebec man. "A 39-year-old man who was tasered by Montreal police...
created by Rob Walker | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 440 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments