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...just going 'wah, wah' when you put the thing over the soda!" Black protests, as the guard played by Gaffigan adjusts his rubber gloves and threatens, "Just give me the word, Wendy." Now, of course, you try to sneak a bottle of pop past the TSA and they'll stun-gun the crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Terror Imitates the Soda Commercial | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

When Brad Koteshwar, a private investor in Scottsdale, Ariz., decided to sink $6,000 into the stock of a hot local company, stun-gun maker Taser International, in January 2004, he knew it was risky. The stock price had already soared nearly 2000% in 2003, and that kind of phenomenal growth just can't last forever. "We got in a little late," admits Koteshwar, who with his wife Sheila also holds seminars and publishes a newsletter on stock investing. But police departments from Kansas City, Mo., to San Jose, Calif., were placing large orders for Taser's weapons, which emit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Zap to Zzzzz | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

Giuliani insists that his protégé's withdrawal is solely about the nanny problem--and not about the cacophony of other issues that surfaced, like Kerik's recent $6.2 million windfall from exercising stock options in Taser International, a stun-gun company on whose board he serves and which does business with the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik never warned the Bush Administration about a potential nanny issue, a senior official says. "He's a workaholic. These are things he doesn't concentrate on," says Giuliani. When Kerik called the White House to tell them of the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Kerik's Fall | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...addition to the assault with intent to murder charges and the unlawful possession of a stun-gun charge, two of the four suspects who were arraigned, of whom two were male and two female, were charged with disturbing the peace, Pasquarello said. Other charges included unlawful possession of ammunition and malicious destruction of property...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Shooting Suspects Charged | 3/16/1993 | See Source »

Police recovered a plastic replica of a firearm from one of two youths arrested seconds before the shooting occurred, Pasquarello said. The .38 caliber gun used in the incident had not been recovered, he said. The stun-gun is the third gun or gun-like object involved in the Friday night incident

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Shooting Suspects Charged | 3/16/1993 | See Source »

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