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Pasquarello also advocated the use of personal protection devices like stun-guns and piercing whistles...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suspect Arrested in Rape | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

...Pokeocracy is acquisitiveness. The more Pokemon you have, the greater power you possess (the slogan is GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL). And never underestimate a child's ability to master the Pokearcana required to accumulate such power: the ease with which they slip into cunning and thuggery can stun a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer. Grownups aren't ready for their little innocents to be so precociously cutthroat. Is Pokemon payback for our get-rich-quick era--with our offspring led away like lemmings by Pied Poke-Pipers of greed? Or is there something inherent in childhood that Pokemania simply reflects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Around midnight, after the family's return, he slipped upstairs to JonBenet's room and, using a stun gun, temporarily immobilized her. He carried the youngster to the basement and sexually assaulted her while simultaneously choking her, apparently for the thrill, with a garrote--a favored tool of pedophiles, Smit says--fashioned from the handle of one of Patsy Ramsey's paintbrushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Did an Intruder Kill JonBenet Ramsey? | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Lexington woman reported to CPD that after she severed a relationship with a Cambridge resident, the man became increasingly agitated and began shocking himself with a stun gun. The woman reported that the man had followed her to her sister's house and left a threatening note on her car. She said he also called her sister and told the woman, "This is just the beginning...

Author: By Maria S. Shim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...inmate. "Society has to take a real good look at this aging prison population and what's going to happen to them," says Fredric Rosemeyer, superintendent of Laurel Highlands, one of a new crop of prisons with geriatric wings equipped with oxygen generators and wheelchairs instead of handcuffs and stun guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellblock Seniors | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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