Testing the Safety of Tasers On Meth-Addled Sheep

Funded in part by Taser International, a recent study was done to learn the effects of being tasered while on methamphetamines. Since someone would probably complain about researchers going around and tasering meth addicts, they used sheep instead. From the article: "The less-lethal device of choice was the Taser X26, a standard law enforcement tool which can fire at suspects from a distance of 35 feet. Researchers shocked sixteen anesthetized sheep after dosing the animals with an IV drip of methamphetamine hydrochloride. Some of the smaller sheep weighing less than 70.5 pounds suffered exacerbated heart symptoms related to meth use. But neither the smaller nor larger sheep showed signs of the ventricular fibrillation condition, a highly abnormal heart rhythm that can become fatal."

Comments

OMG, the poor bloody sheep!!!!

[Nyder]

I have no problem with them testing taser on meth addicts. In fact, I think it would be good to test whatever they want on repeated offense drug addicts. They are the dredges on society, and they'd rip you off in a heart beat.

Seriously, drug addicts might think twice about keep using if they know that they will get used for research.

Then again, they probably won't care.

I know I don't.

Re:Falling over is dangerous

[DNS-and-BIND]

Resisting arrest is dangerous. There, fixed it for you.

for all those complaining about taser use:

[circletimessquare]

i suppose you would prefer cops going back to beating or shooting people?

or i suppose you want cops to have no use of force at all, because the kind of people police encounter (that they are protecting YOU from) are universally philosophers of love and reason

of course police brutality is a real phenomenon. of course police will overreact and use tasers when they shouldn't. as if any of these awful situations somehow means not using a taser is a better scenario, for everyone involved, or magically makes these problems go away

the point is to subdue deranged people with nonlethal force. NO TECHNOLOGY YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE will be 100% foolproof in this regard, every method has its drawbacks, bringing down a deranged drug user is and never will be foolproof in terms of harm to the deranged drug user, or the cops. additionally, cops are human beings, not robots or omnipotent beings (which some people seem to have as a starting point when describing how cops should behave), and they will screw up, and there will be bad apples that shouldn't even be cops in the first place

but thank god they have tasers, and aren't shooting people instead. tasers are a BENEFIT in terms of overall reduction of use of lethal force

if you care about police brutality, you will thank the stars that the taser was invented. that really is the truth