brief the taser shorties

A jailer in Walton County Georgia is punished for misuse of a taser, a first since the department began using them in more than four years of use.

A guy crazed by ganja assaults an 18-wheeler, gets a tasing. There is no readily apparent explanation as to why he was naked, though. Disorderly conduct and resisting arrest seem like a fitting punishment.

A school officer in Fredericks County, Maryland deployed a taser against a 17 year old who was resisting efforts to take custody of his sister. He later goes to jail for disorderly conduct and several other charges.

A guy gets trashed and ends up trashing a show at the Washington University in St. Louis, that's a tasing. As of publishing, there is no word on the charges he faced, if any. Here's the Chief of the WUPD discussing why the tasing was appropriate, and raising the question of whether a taser is appropriate if it is not meant to incapacitate the subject, instead designed only to cause pain.

A question that's so interesting, in fact, it's part of a blossoming legal battle involving tasers in Waxahacie, Texas. It might be of note also for the poor guy in Alabama who was tased for having an epileptic seizure, as it's pretty much what happened to the plaintiff in the case.

From the realm of good news, a tape of the incident in Vancouver, B.C. is going to be released for public consumption tomorrow. The first one to post the Youtube video here on the blog is officially a nerd of the highest order. Let the race begin!

Sure, Taser parties might be the hottest thing since being born again and hosting a bible study, but the stock market isn't being kind to Taser, International today. Perhaps investors are nervous about the aforementioned legal battle and its implications for future orders, or looking at the crumbling expenditures in the public sector and wondering if police departments are going to have enough money to keep their fleets moving, nonetheless replace fragile tasers.