Concerns over safety of Taser stun guns (eye injury / Australia)

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New concerns about the safety of Taser stun guns used by Victoria Police have been raised by the case of an Adelaide man hit in the eye by one of the weapon's fishhook-like darts.

Surgeons from Adelaide's Queen Elizabeth Hospital saved the 50-year-old man's eye after operating to remove the barb.

Details of the case, the first documented example of a Taser dart entering a victim's eye, have been published in this month's American Journal of Ophthalmology. <snip>

One of the Taser's two darts was embedded in the man's arm. The other entered his eye just below the lower eyelid. <snip>

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Concerns-over-safety-of-Taser-stun-guns/2005/04/19/1113854203255.html?oneclick=true

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