Has anyone here ever been "tased"?

[CoffeeCat]

I'm just wondering what it really feels like?

I bet it's excruciating.

[L. Coyote]

1. Welcome to my Ignore list

Everyone posting a new taser thread goes on my ignore list, period. move.on DU
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[Bluebear]

2. This is getting to be spamalicious.

[CoffeeCat]

21. Awwww....

...but I liked you!

This wasn't a taser post, per se--about the taser situation that happened.

Come on...I'm collecting empirical data!



:dunce:

[TomInTib]

3. Yep, did it to myself to see what it felt like.

My uncle was a policeman in Houston and brought one home with him to show it to me.

So I was pretty whacked and it just seemed like something I should experience.

Fired it smack into my right thigh.

Knocked me off a barstool and I pissed in my pants.

And it hurt like hell for about a second.

But I wasn't squealing like some little kid.

I have a videotape of it somewhere.

If I find it, maybe I will have someone burn it on a disc and put it on DU. It is funny as heck.

[iamthebandfanman]

5. damn, your thigh ? lol

why such a sensative area?

[TomInTib]

12. I can assure you that there wasn't a lot of thought involved.

I just leaned back and pushed the button.

[The Count]

8. Oh, you brave man, you! Maybe the kid wanted attention to what was done to him

just so kerry won't say afterwards: "I had no idea they tased him"
But hey, you did it to yourself, and videotaped the deed - you win buddy!:sarcasm:

[DaveJ]

11. I never heard squealing like THAT before

In my experience, bullies are always the biggest crybabies when someone bullies them back.

[rinsd]

4. self delete

[liberalmuse]

6. No, but I immensely enjoyed seeing Eric Estrada tased...

...as shown on 'The Soup'. Disclaimer: I don't have a problem with consensual tasing. *Go ahead anti-taserthread elitists. Put me on "ignore". HahahahahahaHaha!!!!!

[Bluebear]

9. CNN's Rick Sanchez tased was another delight

He volunteered, of course.

[liberalmuse]

14. Why can't Ann Coulter "volunteer" ?

That I'd like to see. She'd probably go up in flames, cackling, and then disappear in a noxious cloud of sulfur. Come to think of it, she might have crashed on her broomstick somewhere near Peru.

[2rth2pwr]

7. Does electroshock count? nt

[haele]

10. I've been shocked with 75Kvolts hitting the end of a CR with my elbow...

...doing repairs on a radar console underway. Ship took a roll one way, I was under the console and rolled the other way.
Like getting a sharp stick jammed up your arm, making your arm numb at the same time. And your'e stuck, so there's a lot of adreniline rush, scary feeling.

Haele

[AnotherGreenWorld]

13. I've been tased.

It hurt, but there are much more painful things. The pain doesn't last very long either.

[Kelly Rupert]

15. No, but I have been electrocuted.

Hurts like hell, but the pain doesn't last much longer than the current is flowing. The pain isn't the main part of it, though--it's the lack of control. Your muscles all tense without you; I fell like a rock. The adrenaline kicks in immediately, and every second takes forever.

It's not really excruciating. I wouldn't call it torture. But I wouldn't advise it.

[slowry]

16. I was electrocuted when I was 11 or so.

Climbed onto a washer/dryer, to plug in a light for the crawlspace. The cord was old, and I was young and stupid; the current knocked me unconscious, and I was either thrown, or fell, to the concrete floor below.

All I remember are waves of vibrations up my arm, then waking up (minutes? hours?) later, with a lump on my head.

I'd rather be tasered, if given the choice :P. Neither would be best though.

[Xithras]

17. Yes. My wife zapped me.

Not an actual "Taser" brand taser, but a modulated stun gun that works about the same way*. The only real difference between her weapon and a taser is the range...hers is a "touch" model that requires you to actually jab the person in order to apply the probes. This allows it to be used on multiple people if need be.

She is a teacher in a very, very bad area and carries it for protection (yes, it is legal for her to carry it onto school grounds and into her classrooms). Her classroom has been robbed more than once, and she routinely has to deal with hardcore gang banger parents who routinely threaten her (and in one case struck her) for simply doing her job. She started carrying it a few years ago.

Shortly after she got it, I dared her to zap me. I'd been hit with regular stun guns before and expected the same quick hit. This was very different. It wasn't actually painful in the way you'd normally think of pain, but it was and extremely uncomfortable crushing feeling. I also lost all control of my muscles and pissed myself. The pain stopped immediately when the power was taken away, but it took several minutes for me to get full control back, and I was sore for an hour.

*What they don't tell you is that tasers and other modulated devices to more than simply shock the victim (like classical stun guns). They're designed to actually pulse the electricity through your body in such a way that it causes the actual muscle tissue to expand and contract hundreds of times a second. It's the muscular equivalent of running a 100 yard dash in a second...lactic acid builds up to unbearable levels, and the muscles simply tire out so badly that they can no longer respond. The electric pulse completely robs you of muscle control when the power is applied, and leaves them completely worn out an unable to function once the power is taken off.

[snooper2]

18. Yep, we did it on the side of our knees

After being extremely tanked...just a couple yoows but not too big of a deal. I would rather be shocked by a taser than shocked by a 110 electric outlet.

[sharp_stick]

19. I have

We were in Paramedic training and we had to be qualified on a Taser. It wasn`t so much painful as very uncomfortable, in a really weird and pretty much undescribable way. The jolt(s) lasted for about 4 or 5 seconds and it felt like a lot longer than that.

The weird thing was that I was pretty near exhausted for quite awhile afterward because of the design of the jolt.

It was very effective, I hit the ground like a bag of rocks and barely remember it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Not tased

but had the honor of transporting patients (properly deconned) after the cops used pepper spray, and just from decontaminating, my eyes watered like nothing else and my chest felt like it was burning

my husband was, part of his training... and it was far from a pleasant experience

By the way, I am sure most folks don't realize this... but officers go through getting tased and gassed while in the academy... so they KNOW what it feels like