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Surprising new products pop up all the time at high-tech trade shows. But at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, one was particularly shocking. Volunteers by the dozen lined up at the Taser International booth for a chance to get blasted with 50,000 volts from the company's newest stun gun. "It felt like I got hit by lightning 100 times," said Jeremy Friedbaum, 46, of Provo, Utah...
...Idiot Johnny Knoxville Whether he is getting shot with a Taser, flipped in a Port-O-San or just clubbed by a pro boxer, it's comforting to know that no matter how bad your day was, his was significantly worse...
Which is to say, you have entered the environs of Knoxville--as in Jackass star Johnny Knoxville, the alias of P.J. Clapp, 29, who started on the road to fame by sending MTV a video in which he had himself gassed with pepper spray and shot with a Taser. (He and MTV agreed not to air a segment of the video in which he put on a bulletproof vest and shot himself.) And if you're nonplussed--and maybe a tad defensive about being nonplussed ("But I'm cool! I liked Beavis and Butt-Head!")--Knoxville is doing...
...created a sort of poison-pill culture, adopting antisocial poses that couldn't be appropriated by the mainstream and practicing self-mutilating rites, like safety-pin piercing, too gross or painful for the masses. In Jackass's case, the connection is more than theoretical: Knoxville first made his Taser video for the skateboarding magazine Big Brother--the skate and punk communities have a long, symbiotic relationship--and many of his show's stunts are straight out of skate-punk culture. The big difference is that theirs is a highly corporate punk rock, eagerly appropriated, encouraged and even created by giant...
...question to ask is whether the flight attendants attempted to restrict the Good Samaritans from using undue force," says California aviation lawyer Phillip Kolczynski. "Are we reaching the point where we need police officers on board, or do we need to start arming crew members with Mace or Taser guns...