[Safety Study]Sheep on Meth Tasered

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In Safety Study, Sheep on Meth Are Shocked With Tasers | Popular Science

The study aimed to test whether Taser devices have caused heart-related problems or death in meth-addled suspects.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug, but getting shocked with a Taser while riding high on methamphetamines probably beats any white-knuckled cocaine experience hands down. And that's exactly what happened to some lucky sheep in a new study that tested the effects of Tasers on meth-addled targets, funded in part by Taser International.

There's at least some scientific reasoning behind all the apparent madness. Growing abuse of methamphetamines has led to arrest-related deaths in situations where law enforcement officers used their Tasers on drug-intoxicated suspects. The latest study was designed to test whether electronic control devices (e.g. Tasers) can lead to dangerous cardiac responses in meth-intoxicated humans, with sheep standing in for people.

The less-lethal device of choice was the Taser X26, a standard law enforcement tool which can fire at suspects from a distance of 35 feet. Researchers shocked sixteen anesthetized sheep after dosing the animals with an IV drip of methamphetamine hydrochloride.

Some of the smaller sheep weighing less than 70.5 pounds suffered exacerbated heart symptoms related to meth use. But neither the smaller nor larger sheep showed signs of the ventricular fibrillation condition, a highly abnormal heart rhythm that can become fatal.

The study that appears in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine openly lists a few caveats. Aside from being partially funded by Taser International, the study authors include two physicians who represent medical consultants and stockholders of the company. One of the two is also the medical director of Taser International.

Still, Taser has an understandable interest in assessing the safety of its less-lethal devices in these types of extreme conditions. Taser devices have evolved into a wide-ranging family that includes Taser shotgun cartridges that fire from a 12-gauge shotgun at up to 100 feet. The company has also teamed up with the Pentagon to develop shock cartridges for a grenade launcher.

Taser has even had its employees put themselves on the firing line to vouch for the safety of its products.

Certainly police would rather have less-lethal options for tricky situations involving meth. We can all probably agree that less Taser use is better, but that they are certainly preferable to more lethal methods of subduing criminals in certain situations. Outraged animal rights activists, however, can begin writing their letters of protest now.
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Where is PETA at?
 
"The company has also teamed up with the Pentagon to develop shock cartridges for a grenade launcher."

Shock cannon?
 
Doing a test like this on sheep is ridiculous. They really need to do it on human subjects to be sure of the physiological response. They need to come out to Vancouver. East Van is full of perfect candidates for just such a test. They can bring all the tasers, shock grenades, lightning Abrhams, whatever they want. If I didn't live within the possible fallout radius, I would just say they could tryout a taser nuke as well.
 
Transient test subjects. Give them some money, get them a little high and tase them. Then ask for feed back. If they die, it's one less homeless on the streets.

Win win
 
i was on a jury for a case in which a dude on meth died after being tazed (like 10 times)

was pretty interesting. especially when they showed video of the dude from the dashcam of the cop car and one of the girls on the jury started freaking out and crying.
 
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Eggi said:
i was on a jury for a case in which a dude on meth died after being tazed (like 10 times)

was pretty interesting. especially when they showed video of the dude from the dashcam of the cop car and one of the girls on the jury started freaking out and crying.
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guilty or not guilty?
 
Because it's necessary to taser people 10 times.

I wonder if there are videos of these sheep being tasered. The sheep's eye in the posted pic looks like he is being tased
 
I'm of the opinion that police use tazers too often and too indiscriminately. From Soccer moms to kids who are clearly unarmed in college to your grandparents.

I'm also not surprised they are doing this test to the animals but it shouldn't be a fucking sheep it should be humans you don't see police going around shocking sheep for fuck sakes. I highly doubt they tazered a sheep 11 times in a row...
 
1slob18c1 said:
Transient test subjects. Give them some money, get them a little high and tase them. Then ask for feed back. If they die, it's one less homeless on the streets.

Win win
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There's no need to give them money or drugs. Just walk around certain parts of practically every major city on the planet and start tasering. There's also no need to ask for feedback. If they scream or get back up you know the taser isn't set high enough.
 
DeadGuy* said:
guilty or not guilty?
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the dude had sliced his arms up by punching through windows in the neighborhood and after they handcuffed him he was trying to break the handcuffs with his slit wrists...the cops were worried he was going to kill himself so they tazed him multiple times to try subdue him, for his own safety. then he had a heart attack and died.

cops did everything by the book, although the way they are trained to taze ppl is a bit too liberal.
 
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