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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."
with sheep
Don't tase me dude!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
..which is why your cat will get high as a kite on catnip but you won't.
You're using it wrong.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Just wait until we get some good designer drugs with no major physical downsides
Nature has already provided these for us in many forms.
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
Stop talking sense! We must think of the poor wittle animals.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Look, we are the superior species and the best way to demonstrate that is to use our intelligence to torture these defenceless creatures. As a bonus we are able to use this torture as a pretext to sell devices which allow us to profit from enabling fellow superiors to torture same-species victims. It's all good. Win win win. Muhahahahaha etc..
Requiem for the American Dream
.... because "People in large masses may as well be sheep. Their collective intelligence drops to that of the weakest-minded member of the group. They bleat, they panic and are easily herded to safety, or to the slaughter." - Alan Gunn
I, for one, welcome our new fascist, taser-bearing overlords. Oh, wait....
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
It's bro.... Don't tase me bro....
You ignorant fuckwit....
In this case it is don't tase me baaah!
Right, who was supposed to bring the mint sauce?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
AKA
Doctor Shock
"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy
Not to sound like a tinfoil hat wearer, but do you think funding of the study by the Taser company and it being done by stockholders in the same company might have something to do with it?
Taser safety print: "Safe to use on meth-addled bodies*"
Fine print: "*sheep only"