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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...
Amazingly, Koteshwar was able to cash out with $18,000 in profit after just four months. Taser went on to become the best-performing stock of 2004, more than quadrupling in price--despite the emergence of a potentially chilling scandal in late November: Amnesty International issued a 93-page report detailing 74 deaths in the U.S. and Canada of people who had been hit with a Taser, and calling for a moratorium on the weapons until more independent medical-safety studies were conducted. Yet after a brief stall, Taser's stock continued its upward climb, hitting an all-time high...
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...
...used to be that to make it in Hollywood you needed talent, a pretty face and a lot of luck. Now they'll give you a break on the talent part if you're willing to videotape yourself getting shot with a Taser. Case in point: prankster JOHNNY KNOXVILLE, of Jackass infamy, has no fewer than five movies in the works, and he just scored the lead in the upcoming Farrelly brothers' flick The Ringer, about a guy who pretends to be retarded so he can enter the Special Olympics. If that doesn't make you want to give...
...take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies in San Diego, that transmits a powerful electric current along a beam of ultraviolet light. Shine that light on a human target, and you have a wireless taser that can paralyze targets as far away...