HOLY CRAP THAT FREAKING HURT!!!
The things we do for fun at CES.
Strippers? Boring. Hookers and Alcohol? Nah, too plebian.
I got it: LET'S GET TASERED!!
Added to my list of things I've done in my life:
I've been Tasered.
And HOLY CRAP, IT HURT.
It really, really, really hurt. 50,000 volts running through your legs will do that, I suppose.
Taser was demo'ing their new "cooler-looking, in color" Tasers. Two guys held me, one on either side. I found out it was to lower me down slowly. I was like, "yeah, whatever." Then it felt like I was freakin' SHOT. I went down like a rifled Hippo. I mean, I DROPPED. The guys were nice enough to lower me gently to the ground, since I no longer had control over my legs, or any other part of me.
Yeah. Ow. Screenshots and Video Captures below. Holy crap, it hurt. What does it say about our society, though, when Taser, Inc. takes a 15x15 booth at the 2007 CES? Heh.
Video: Download tasered-three1.mpg
Before
Happy-go-lucky Peter
First 1/1,000th of a second
And he's down.
Done. There's a reason police like these things, guys...
a) Unless you did it to score with some babalious babe, I really don't see the point (and even then, well, she had to be like porno star sizzling hot).
b) truly a shocking story.
c) What a geek--I understand Boeing is going to have a booth next year where they demonstrate what it is like to have a B-52 drop a bomb on your head. Wow, man, what a blast.
d) True note: there has beeen litigation about people getting really hurt and/or dying as a result of Tasers. Duh. It is better to drop out of airplanes.
Sincerely,
your lawyers.
Posted by: jerry | January 09, 2007 at 17:45
So did that get you entered into a drawing or did you get a free t-shirt out of it?
Posted by: Kevin Dugan | January 09, 2007 at 20:26
Okay - this takes the phrase "dying for one's art" to a level I had hoped you wouldn't reach!
And you ASKED for that!?!? Please, for pity's sake - stick with the strippers - the worst that could happen is a tassle in the eye....
Posted by: Veronika | January 09, 2007 at 21:58
as my programming friend frank used ta say, "I'm compressed"!
Posted by: george | January 10, 2007 at 12:52
Why do I want to do a mashup of your photos with an Ernest Angley voice-over?
"Evil spirits affecting this flack's moral judgement... come OUT!"
PRAISE Jeeezuz. PRAISE him.
Posted by: Bob LeDrew | January 10, 2007 at 14:12
I'm thinking higher body fat might provide greater insulation, but it's only a theory. I am NOT willing to be the tester for that side of the experiment.
U B nutz, yo. The jumping-out-of-planes thing is looking tepid compared to this.
Posted by: raincoaster | January 10, 2007 at 21:25
Hahah, hillarious! Kudos for trying that out, I'm sure you've created a memory you'll not soon forget. Weren't you concerned about, erm, soiling yourself? :)
Posted by: TheConsultant | January 11, 2007 at 00:21
She should definitely go to a hospital for the next 72 hours for cardio monitoring!!!
Electric shock, and especially heart threat shocks like this, can prove fatal for up to weeks after the first attack...
It seem like a "game", but the tally of deaths and lawsuits will take this "toy" of of the hand of these idiots really fast!!
Posted by: Joe | January 11, 2007 at 01:38