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Next Generation Stun Guns?
RoyalCheese writes "Well, I've just been reading an interesting little article on New Scientist's website about new crowd control weapons that electrocute/stun the targets. Seems we will soon be at risk of being stunned by ionised air generated by laptop sized lasers..." Reader Spetiam adds "News.com.au reports on a new weapon that will be able to zap you from afar, wires not included: 'We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose at one or many targets in a single sweep,' XADS [Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems] president Peter Bitar is quoted as saying." So, this company has a free-hosting website and and a free-email address for their "president", and the photo looks like cardboard tubes wrapped with green camouflage tape. Hmmmm.
Sharks with frickin' ... !
Man watching 6 MSCE's around a sun box, looks alot like the opening scene's of 2001:space odyssey...
They put all their money into their death ray. /frink quotes to follow.
That "weapon" looks straight out of Lost in Space. At least GI Joe in the picture seems to be pretty hardcore.
Cant they somehow strap this frickin laser beem to that frickin guys head?
Im the president of this frickin company for frickin sake.
I ask for a car and I get a computer. How's about that for being born under a bad
We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose at one or many targets in a single sweep
Batman: "Slake your thirst. You'll have worse than a parched sensation when we're through with you!"
We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose
The Ghostbusters were already doing that 20 years ago...
Demonstrators at a protest in the United Kingdom were seen running around with lengths of copper wire trailing across the ground from their trouser-legs.
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Potato canon technology is now within reach of the US armed forces.
You want fries with THAT! and THAT! and THAT!
kulakovich
Maybe they're hoping that the target will just fall down, laughing at this thing.
stunning how far technology has come...
We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose at one or many targets in a single sweep
Holt Crap! A weapon that will specifically target me in my tin foil hat!
I am pretty sure that is a broken table leg in the picture, wrapped in tape. While this may sound dangerous, no tables I own generate long-range electrical shocks.
...my tinfoil hat is more than adequate
Sigs for Nerds. Sigs that Matter.
Take a mirror with you.
... With an effective range of nearly 9 feet from the operator ...
Obviously this is real. If it were a fake story, they wouldn't have included this amazing piece of info. 9 feet? I could probably throw my 70 lb dog that far!
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
First, we have hull plating, then teleportation, and now phasers. Once we get warp drive and replicators, we'll be ready to build starships.
is haging out the back on that thing. Hope they come with a decently long extension lead.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
how these things are made. Smile!
E.
Never rub another man's rhubarb - The Joker
This is a weapon designed to use in case of protests or riots. What kinds of governments need this sort of weapon?
Any country hosting rowdy soccer fans, maybe?
... or is that thing plugged into the wall?
Not particularly mobile.
Maybe GI Joe there can carry one of these in his backpack.
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Also Tony Hawk, Dave Mirra, Bam Margera, the good people at Right Guard, and that hottie from that show about all the videogames.
"Hey baby, my cannon goes nine feet and can shut off a Volkswagen. Can I see your b00biez!?"
Police forces can quickly and efficiently deal with dissenters without sparking media attendtion!
Ouch. With puns like this, governments don't need stun guns.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Is it printed in the Mirror? They had rather a successful run with fake photos of soldiers.
Are you sure the rusty thing isn't copper?
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Yeah. Lets end all soccer games!
You realize that XADS is just 11 miles up the street from the Worlds Largest Ball of Paint?
Coincidence? I think not....
--Joe(PS. In case that Yahoo! Maps link doesn't work after a bit, note that XADS is in Anderson, IN, and WLBP is in Alexandria, IN.)
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