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Though the Taser has been around for more than 30 years, the brand-name stun gun gained new notoriety last month when Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old student, scuffled with University of Florida police and uttered his now infamous entreaty "Don't tase me, bro!" - just moments before he, in fact, got tased. The rather dramatic incident, captured on camera and uploaded to YouTube, spawned a catchy new anti-establishment anthem, picked up and repeated mostly by college students. But it has also renewed questions about whether Tasers pose any danger, and whether the police are using them...
...idea of tasing simultaneously fascinates and frightens people, it's probably because the technology is a bit of a mystery. "It's harder to understand the science behind [Tasers] than to understand bullets or batons," says Scott Greenwood of the Cincinnati chapter of the ACLU. Tasers are the only stun gun that can be fired from a distance, and they deliver a high-voltage electric shock that momentarily paralyzes victims but doesn't kill them. According to Greenwood, the zap from a Taser is no more harmful than a shot of pepper spray to the face. "[Getting tased] is both...
...court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk of the state. Matthew Lee Cloyd, 21, Benjamin Moseley, 20 and Russell DeBusk, 20, all white, were drunk and out to use their car headlights to stun and then shoot deer. When that turned into an inebriated fiasco, said DeBusk, "We agreed to break into a church and one of our number decided to light a jar of plastic flowers." Things got out of hand after that...
...going to have a problem on our hands for a long time. The CPD’s plan to arm some of its officers with Tasers is a waste of taxpayer funds, and, more importantly, a threat to public safety. While officers contend that the 50,000-volt stun guns are necessary in order to subdue drug users and the mentally ill, who apparently have preternaturally high pain tolerances, the weapons simply do not make sense in Cambridge. Carrying Tasers encourages the police to use painful force in situations when nonviolent methods would probably be sufficient. Becasue Tasers...
...Palazzo Strozzi has been able to reassemble only about one-third of their original holdings, and yet even this remnant seems almost too rich for the blood. Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (ca. 1877), from Fabbri's collection, still has the power to stun that it exercised on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke at the Paris Salon in 1907. "The knowledge of its existence has transformed into an elation that I feel even in my sleep," Rilke wrote to his wife. The subject of the painting is Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne's model...